'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditatio

This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcr

Get whisked away into the history of some of the most controversial women in history: witches. “I love how this book takes a global perspective…It's really

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptional

In 1692, four young girls from the Puritan town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began acting strangely. They threw fits and cried out. They claimed that the sp