The notion of witchcraft—manipulation of everyday events using magic—dates back to ancient times. The 18th-century B.C. Code of Hammurabi contains penalties for witchcraft.

As many as 300 people were executed for witchcraft in eastern England between 1644 and 1646. The laws against witchcraft were repealed almost a century later, in 1736.

MIDDLETOWN — The history of witchcraft accusations is something that the casual observer may think is just a footnote to the late 17th- and early 18th centuries. For the families of those women ...

From curanderos to hechiceros and brujos, New Mexico has a rich cultural past that has often led to rumors of spellcasters.

When Sarah Jessica Parker took on the role of the Salem witch Sarah Sanderson, she had no idea her 10th-great-grandmother had been accused of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials 300 years earlier.

Ms. Dyer is one of seven people who were tried and convicted of witchcraft in Maryland in the 17th and 18th centuries. Only one was executed: Rebecca Fowler, a widow who was hanged in 1685 after a ...