On a cold October morning, the loud speaker crackled, “Mrs. Ronzio? Nick Frasco’s mother dropped off his permission slip down here in the office. He needs to come down and get it.””Thank you,” replied ...

Betty wanders through the library muttering and hugging herself. In her seventies, with scraggly grey hair and a hard, troubled gaze, she resembles a witch, but in baggy sweats and a faded T-shirt ...

Calling all witches and warlocks … or library enthusiasts. Chicago’s Newberry Library is crowdsourcing translations for three 17th-century manuscripts of spells, charms and magic. Handwritten in ...

Salem, Mass., isn’t the only place where witches were being hunted centuries ago. Three-thousand miles away and 130 years before the hysteria in Salem, Scots were enthusiastically tracking down ...

In the prologue to 1994’s Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts, author Anne Llewellyn Barstow observes, “The longer I have worked on these sixteenth- and seventeenth-century events, ...

Jennifer Busa, public programs and special events coordinator for the Connecticut Historical Society, presented a talk on Witches in Connecticut at the Welles-Turner Memorial Public Library, on Oct.

OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) – The Opelika Public Library is drawing praise and criticism after announcing bestselling author Grady Hendrix will visit October 9 as part of its 2025 Author Visit Series.

According to the Smithsonian, the Newberry Library in Chicago is crowdsourcing translations for three 1 century manuscripts dealing with charms, spirits and other manners of magical practice. Titled ...