In the estate archives adjoining Bruntál (German: Freudenthal) and Sovinec (German: Eulenburg), properties belonging to the Teutonic Order, we can find testimonies of many trials of people accused of magical practices. ...

There are many stereotypes related to witches and witch trials in the public’s imagination. One of the popular elements associated to this issue is the question of the witches’ Sabbath, which the witches attended. The ...

The beginnings of sorcery trials in Prague date back to the end of the 15th c. In the period before the Battle of White Mountain (1526–1620) only isolated cases of a magic offense (in the form of sorcery) can be documented ...

In the paper the author intended to characterize the image of the witch-woman, as it is shown by the Polish historiography of the witch trials during the early modern period, in the light of the current studies, focusing ...

It is a challenging task to translate a complex interdisciplinary cultural-scientific topic like the witch hunt, its historical reality like its ideologisation and fictionalisation into an exhibition. The dispute about the ...

Research into the place of women in history, feminism and gender is conducted in many countries of the world, now has a wide reach and is already characterized by an avalanche of literature. The article discusses the ...

The author of the article presents an interpretation of the early modern discourses on witchcraft and mental disorders from the perspective of exclusion and inclusion processes regulating social dynamic in specific historical ...

Victims of the witch trials in the early modern period were mainly inhabitants of countryside and smaller towns. From the beginning of the 1970s in the Western historiography the phenomenon of the witch hunt has been ...