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Why Witches in Old Europe Feared Their Own Reflections
In stories about witches, mirrors are almost always bad news. They shatter in haunted houses, trap wandering souls, and ...
As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will ...
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How This Italian Town Came to Be Known as the ‘City of Witches’
Centuries ago, it was said that Benevento was a gathering place for the occult. Today, superstitions still run deep ...
Across early modern Europe, fear spread like wildfire; between the 15th and 17th centuries, tens of thousands were accused, ...
Scotland was afraid, very afraid as the hunt for ‘witches’ swept the country.
Step into a modern kitchen and you’ll find jars of rosemary, sage, basil, and thyme sitting neatly on the rack. Yet centuries ...
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Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
The former Austrian foreign minister emphasized that freedom of speech in Europe is absent not only in the media but also in the academic sphere ST. PETERSBURG, September 11. /TASS/. Karin Kneissl, ...
A recent spate of cases involving members of the Roma community and allegations of child-snatching has shone an uncomfortable spotlight on Europe’s attitudes and treatment of the Roma, and what some ...
As Halloween approaches, stories of witches and their potions resurface, often featuring eerie plants like belladonna, ...
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