history & documentation
For those who still believe the persecution of alleged witches belongs to the Middle Ages… Witchcraft has today become an umbrella term for a wide and often diffuse spectrum of practices. In early Europe,...
Until 1951, England had laws strictly prohibiting the practice of witchcraft. The Witchcraft Laws of June, 1 1653 stated that any form of witchcraft-related activity was prohibited. Three years after the last law was...
Peter Stumpp (1535,- 1589), also known as Peter Stubbe, Stube, Stumpf, Stübbe, and Stubbe Peeter, was executed near Cologne on 31 October 1589 after being accused of murder, cannibalism, incest, sorcery, and transforming himself...
Walpurgis Night is celebrated on the night of April 30 to May 1. This traditional feast mingles the celebration of Saint Walpurga with the arrival of spring and what came to be regarded as...
Though, in contrast to states like Spain, Germany, England, Scotland and even the USA, Holland does not experience a very interesting history of witchcraft. We had our witches and even in our beloved Amsterdam,...
Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, print-maker and illustrator, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater. Gillot was born in Langres. He had Watteau...
Rosaleen Norton (2 October 1917 – 5 December 1979), who used the craft name of Thorn, was an Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / Neopagan Witchcraft which...
Broomsticks and witches (and pointed heads) have been inseparably linked in the popular imagination for centuries. As with so many enduring mythological images, however, there are fragments of historical reality behind the stereotype. Witches did...
