The Supreme Court has affirmed the life sentence of a man found guilty of witch-hunting, an act linked to a horrific attack ...

When my kids were small, we used to recite a little ditty about going on a bear hunt. The hunt involved a belief that there was a bear out there, “a big one,” only we couldn’t see it; we had to get ...

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On 20 July, four elderly people were lynched by a mob in the Gumla District of Jharkhand, India after being accused of practicing witchcraft. According to reports, the victims were accused of causing ...

More than 300 years after her death, officials in Scotland are appealing for the return of the remains of a local woman accused of witchcraft, so that she can be properly buried. Lilias Adie died in ...

Samta* was cleaning rice inside her home when the men attacked. She had known they would come. Samta’s offerings of free health advice and medicinal herbs had angered a holy man in her village in the ...

In 1692, the good people of Salem, Mass., went searching for evil. They could have just looked in the mirror. Witches and devils dancing in a circle, woodcut, 1720. (Wellcome Collection) Driven by ...