Why early Protestants embraced demons and witches but turned their backs on ghosts. Listen to expert Penelope Geng on The ...

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — The wind blew hard one fall night here in 1589. So much so that King James VI concluded that witches must have gathered in this fishing town to conjure up the storm that ...

A new book How to Kill a Witch brings a dark period of history back to grisly life – and an official tartan is being released to memorialise some of those who were tortured and killed. When King James ...

During the 1600s, when Maryland society was just forming out of groups of immigrants primarily from the British Isles, early ...

In the 1590s, King James VI of Scotland's fear of witchcraft began stirring up national panics, resulting in the torture and death of thousands. Toil and TroubleAn engraving reproduces Henry Fuseli’s ...

A COUNTY musician is preparing to release his latest single, inspired by life in North Berwick, on Halloween. Cameron Phair, a North Berwick-based singer-songwriter, is set to release Song for Agnes ...