Enchanting books about witches When I was growing up, I was terrified of witches and anything that evoked spooky autumnal ...

Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches differs quite heavily from The Witching Hour, the first novel in the Mayfair book trilogy the ...

In the original book, the witches are described as having "thin curvy claws" instead of fingernails, and feet that "have square ends with no toes on them at all". 'What sort of message does this ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

After all, witches are the perfect metaphor for women living in contemporary societies who want to erase their rights, their bodies and their freedoms. Given how these ‘wise women’ were ...