Walpurga Hausmännin, a German midwife accused of witchcraft, confessed to killing 41 babies, 2 women in labor, and at least 9 cows before she was burned at the stake in 1587. But those and other ...

The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...

Gabriel has been playing games since he was a kid. Loves most RPG games, platformers, and innovative indie games, and can talk for hours about how the first Fallout is the greatest game ever. He ...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Something about the great European witch craze never made sense. Why did this “primitive” hysteria come as late as it did, beginning only in the mid-15th century and ...

There is murder, execution, fornication with the Devil and the summoning of evil spirits among the stories of the past according to expert Malcolm Gaskill It's Halloween on Monday and thoughts will ...

Neither our own, but given . . . —Paradise Lost When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics ...

As children dress up as witches for Halloween, we are reminded that there was a time when witches were persecuted and executed by society. For a look at this ugly period of European history, I ...

YORK — In the summer of 1682, as the Comet that would come to be known as Halley's blazed in the sky, residents of the island community of what is now New Castle, N.H., were attacked by a ...

Father Javier Ortega, a priest of the Diocese of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, said that costumes of demons, witches, and the dead that are usually worn for Halloween are not recommended because “you ...

The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...