Two Scottish authors and podcasters will be at Citizens Library in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 22, to talk about 16th ...

The fact that witch trials peaked in Scotland during the reign of James VI and I can be partly attributed to the king’s fascination a 15th ...

In the 1590s, King James VI of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, resulting in the torture and death of thousands. Toil and TroubleAn engraving reproduces Henry Fuseli’s ...

Maidstone Borough Council says women killed after accusations they were witches "remain victims of a huge injustice rooted in ...

The infamous Islandmagee witch trials of 1711 have been given a very modern make-over in a ground-breaking video game. 1711 ...

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for ...