Perhaps the most famous witch to come out of the Salem Witch Trials, Abigail Hobbs, the number 6 in our list of most famous witches in history was accused of witchcraft at the tender age of 14.

How did witch-hunting activity ramp up in medieval Essex? In a new Sky HISTORY series, Rylan Clark and Professor Alice ...

Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are ...

Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates: Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608-1614 by Lu Ann Homza. Published January 19, 2022 by Pennsylvania State University Press. This book revises what we thought we ...

As my mother's family history has long maintained, and genealogical research has confirmed, we are direct descendants of Abigail Faulkner, something of a witch-trials celebrity.

The events in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter universe took place almost exclusively in Europe, only making passing mentions to witches and wizards on other continents. But with the American-centric ...

“One of the most famous witch trials in British history is that of the Pendle witches in 1612, where 12 ‘witches’ who lived around Pendle Hill, mostly women, ...

12. Laurie Cabot. Famously known as the “Official Witch of Salem”, Laurie Cabot who ranks 12th in our list of most famous witches in history, is a modern-day witch who is largely responsible ...