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Calls mount for UK to pardon women who were hanged for 'bewitchment'
10-14-2025 |
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Centuries ago, the crime of being a practicing witch - based on the flimsiest of evidence - was punishable by death.
This 200-year-old 'witches bottle' contains something surprising
1-23-2025 | 8
The bottle was analyzed at a British university after being discovered during excavations at a building site.
Witches are reportedly trying to use 'spells' to influence the US election
10-29-2024 | 41
Some people have resorted to using some rather unorthodox methods in an attempt to sway the election results.
New study reveals what sparked 15th-Century witch trial obsession
10-19-2024 | 3
For a period of over 300 years, people accused of being witches were hunted down and persecuted.
Trail camera films 'two scantily-clad witches eating a deer carcass'
6-7-2023 | 1
A woman who had set up a trail camera to film the local wildlife instead captured footage of something very strange indeed.
Connecticut witches have been exonerated over 370 years later
5-27-2023 | 18
Lawmakers in the state have voted to exonerate a dozen individuals who were convicted of witchcraft hundreds of years ago.
40% of the world's population believes in witches, study claims
11-24-2022 | 21
Belief in witches and witchcraft is so widespread that in some countries as many as 9 in 10 people believe in them.
'Water witches' pit science against folklore
7-29-2021 | 132
Can dowsers really find water sources using nothing but a wooden stick or is dowsing a centuries-long con ?
'Witches' marks' found in old church ruins
10-23-2020 | 6
Archaeologists have discovered 12th-Century stone markings that were created to ward off evil spirits.
Lawyer seeks to pardon 2,500 Scottish witches
9-13-2020 | 7
Over 300 years ago, thousands of Scots were burnt at the stake because they were believed to be witches.
Moon 'witch hex' claim circulates TikTok
7-23-2020 | 13
The video sharing platform has recently been buzzing with the claim that the Moon has been hexed by witches.
Witches set to cast 'binding spell' on Trump
10-25-2019 | 25
Thousands of witchcraft practitioners are planning to cast a spell on US President Donald Trump later today.
Former witches' prison goes up for sale
VIDEO 6-2-2019 | 8
A former prison regarded to be one of Britain's most haunted buildings has a long and disturbing history.
Woman charged with pretending to be a witch
12-23-2018 | 35
A woman in Ontario was recently arrested for witchcraft two days before the archaic law was set to be scrubbed.
Shoes were hidden in walls to ward off witches
12-10-2017 | 15
A growing number of old shoes have been discovered concealed inside the walls of British homes.
Dowsers in demand in drought-hit California
7-26-2015 | 23
Farmers have been turning to 'water witches' to help them find water during the state's driest periods.
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