During the witch panics of the Middle Ages, authorities confiscated various brews, ointments, and salves from people accused of witchcraft and sorcery. In the early 1500s, ...

Between 1500 and 1700, nearly 4,000 Scottish people were accused of witchcraft - the majority of them women. What happened to the accused? Find out in this 3rd level history BBC Bitesize article.

A toad excavated from a woman's chest (left) "proves" that she was a witch, in a German print from about 1500. The Duckingstool, by Charles Stanley Reinhart, ...

There is also no clear proof that the people executed as Satan-worshipping “witches” in Europe during that same time period—possibly as many as 60,000 between the late 1500s and early 1700s ...