Can we learn from the past in tackling witchcraft-related violence today?
- Written by Charlotte-Rose Millar, UQ Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
A medieval engraving of the persecution of witches: historians are increasingly demonstrating that belief in witchcraft survived in Western Europe well into the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries. Wikimedia Commons
Between 1450 and 1750, some 45,000 men, women and children were executed in Western Europe as accused witches. Today, emerging new...
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