In 1486, clergyman Heinrich Kramer published the most widely circulated medieval text about organized witchcraft, Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). But many people didn’t believe him.

Medieval St. Mary’s Church was abandoned in 1866. Its remains are currently being taken down and bodies will be removed from the graveyard and reburied.

Essex was a hotbed of witchcraft trials during the 16th and 17th centuries — of the 112 witches who were executed in England in the 1640s alone, 82 were put to death in Essex, the Times reported.

The idea that witches had regular sex with the Devil (women's uncontrollable sexuality being hugely dangerous and evil, obviously) only turned up for the first time in medieval European beliefs ...

The Stone Witch of Florence follows the adventures of Ginevra di Gasparo, a 14th-century Genoan who can harness the hidden powers of gemstones to heal the sick. In 1348, during the darkest days of ...

Until the mid-1970s, most scholars believed that the myth of the Witches’ Sabbath — central to most witch panics — first emerged in the Medieval period, more specifically during the early ...

Witches’ marks are usually carved on medieval structures— like churches, barns, homes or even caves—dating from around 1550 to 1750.