The Witchcraft Act was enacted in 1563, three years after Scotland’s parliament declared Protestantism the country’s official ...

Wicca, or “the craft,” is, at its core, an animistic religion that attempts to control and benefit from the spiritual powers ...

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The act defines practicing witchcraft as pretending to exercise any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery or enchantment calculated to cause fear, annoyance or injury.

You may not believe it, but the last time someone went to prison as a result of the so-called Witchcraft Act was in 1944, and it was actually in the UK. Back then, a Scottish lady medium claimed ...

The Witchcraft Act was designed to enforce "godliness" in the newly Protestant Scotland, with the law condemning anyone who appeared to be "conspiring with the devil". Getty Images.

The study was conducted because the Witchcraft Act has been questioned. It was passed in 1914 when Zambia was part of the British “sphere of influence.” The act defines practicing witchcraft as ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of ...

The act defines practicing witchcraft as pretending to exercise any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery or enchantment calculated to cause fear, annoyance or injury.

The act defines practicing witchcraft as pretending to exercise any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery or enchantment calculated to cause fear, annoyance or injury.