They introduced laws to enforce, what they believed to be, an appropriate Christian lifestyle: In the 16th century ... for witchcraft during this period. By the early 18th century, when scientific ...

The essence of witchcraft was held to be entering into a pact with the devil ... There followed two main periods of witch persecution in Scotland, the first of which was in the 1590's and the second ...

Sculptor Andy Scott's memorial to the 81 residents of Prestonpans, East Lothian, who were executed for witchcraft during the 16th century. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the ...

Think of the witch trials and you probably conjure an image of the 16th or 17th Century in Scotland ... the first in Ireland ...

No portraits have survived of the woman but these actors re-enacted the events at St Canice's Cathedral Think of the witch trials and you probably conjure an image of the 16th or 17th Century in ...

Denmark’s hostility to witchcraft is largely attributed to ... explained monarchs assumed this responsibility after 16th-century French philosopher Jean Bodin declared if a king did not ...

391 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $6.95. To a remarkable degree, these three short novels about witchcraft in 16th and 17th century France seem to have been observed and recorded, rather than ...