The word witch is now associated with malevolent black magic but in medieval Britain white witches or “cunning folk” were an accepted part of village life. These pagan healers were skilled in ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain convincingly why it happened, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh In the early years of the ...

The most well-known reason women were burned at the stake is due to accusations of witchcraft. During the late medieval and ...

So how come this image of evil women practising magic - witches - came about? This talk will use feminist approaches to the past to explore medieval changes in ideas about magic, gender ...