On Palm Sunday, suicide bombers detonated themselves at two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt, killing 44 and wounding 126. Undoubtedly, the volunteer “martyrs” thought they were on a mission so ...

The Ducking stool was a 16th and 17th Century form of punishment derived from the earlier Cucking stool. The Ducking stool ...

In the years before King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne too, he oversaw a rather brutal witch trial that would go down in history as one of Europe's bloodiest. Visitors to North ...

On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk Meilan ...

The six women and three men found themselves on trial for their lives - four of them would be found guilty and hanged. The Civil Wars saw a "resurgence in witchcraft accusations" when "people were ...

The 300-year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month A 300-year-old rare book that details events said to have inspired the infamous Salem Witch Trials ...

They include a Spanish Inquisition ceremony being performed, the first church service in Australia, and an Ethiopian denomination cutting ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

While the judicial machinery of early modern witch-hunting could work with terrifying swiftness, skepticism and evidentiary barriers often made conviction difficult. Seeking proof strong enough to ...

Witchcraft trials became a nexus between law, theology, and popular culture. Students will examine the cultural and social foundations of this phenomenon through a variety of historical sources, with ...

Witchcraft trials became a nexus between law, theology and the culture of common people. In this course, students will study the cultural and social basis of this development and get to know a ...