People love the idea that the Inquisition spent the Middle Ages burning witches nonstop, but historically it was rarely involved in witchcraft cases. Churchmen believed the devil was real, yet many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch ...

Between 1400 and 1780, an estimated 100,000 people, mostly women, were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe. About half that number were executed – killings motivated by a constellation of beliefs ...