15 Remarkable Famous Witches from History
From a historical viewpoint, famous witches are defined in many ways. Self-proclaimed practitioners of witchcraft are witches. As are those society deemed witches without their consent. Officials labeled the unfortunate souls who they burned alive during the witch trials as such. Society has even mythologized peculiar folks rumored to have mysterious powers. Then, there are […]
The Twisted Truth about the Malleus Maleficarum
Witch hunts are a terrible stain on our collective human history. They account for the murders of up to 60,000 women, and the Malleus Maleficarum justified the witch hunts more than any other text. Clergyman Heinrich Kraemer published the manuscript in 1486. In the years that followed, he used the book as a blueprint for […]
