A woman is called a witch. A crowd gathers, she is humiliated, beaten, ostracised, driven from her home, dispossessed of her land—or killed. We often call the final act witch-hunting. But that is ...

Flip Wilson’s line, “The Devil made me do it,” was designed to be funny, not phony. Whether the comedian believed in an actual Satan is, for the moment, immaterial. All he was interested in was ...

The sudden emergence of witch trials in early modern Europe may have been fueled by one of humanity's most significant intellectual milestones: the invention of the printing press in 1450. "Cities ...

She traveled from village to village in a crusade to stop a practice in which women have been accused of being witches and harshly punished, or even killed, for it. By Adam Nossiter Birubala Rabha, an ...

NEW DELHI: More than 75 years of the Constitution coming into force, the derogatory practice of witch-hunting that targets defenceless women due to prejudice, suspicion, superstition and irrational ...

Odisha is drafting a comprehensive anti-witch-hunting policy that proposes special courts, time-bound trials, immediate rescue and rehabilitation of victims, and accountability for police officers who ...