"Witchcraft is also an incredibly creative act, and the more personal one gets with their practice, the more powerful the results are," said Grossman. "There's an artfulness to it.

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 almost 4,000 people tortured and often executed under the Witchcraft Act "have gone down in history as criminals" says Don, who introduced the member's bill to grant their legal pardon.

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.

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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 ...

One could argue that the Witchcraft Act of 1604 was the first moral panic law and one of the earliest violence against women laws on our books as a British colony,” Del. Bagnall told the committee.

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.