Which poses the question: Are witches real? The answer is two-fold. The sort of witches that fly around on broomsticks and ...

Witchcraft had now been linked directly to evil and the Devil, however, the Church, did not believe that witches had real magical abilities. However, by 1484 the official view had changed.

These days we do not live in fear of witchcraft or spend our time hunting witches. A painting illustrating the famous Robert Burns poem 'Tam o' Shanter'. In the poem, Tam barely escapes as he is ...