No one tortured witches like the Swiss
Swiss witches are making a comeback from the dead as cantons rehabilitate some of those they executed in past centuries – with the last case as recent as 1782.This content […]
Killed for witchcraft, Scotland’s forgotten victims find a voice
Thursday, 17 Feb 2022 Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. DUNDEE, Feb 17 — Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi are fighting for pardons for all those […]
Ectoplasm and the Last British Woman Tried for Witchcraft
POLITICS & HISTORY Spiritualist medium Helen Duncan was photographed emitting ectoplasm, supposedly proof of her ability to contact the dead. Helen Duncan’s ‘Ectoplasm’ c. 1939, Imitation silk. © Cambridge University […]
Swiss museum dedicated to ‘last witch in Europe’ handed one million-franc donation
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 14 February 2018 witchcrafthistoryanna goeldi Burning of three witches in Baden, Switzerland (1585), by Johann Jakob Wick. A recently-opened museum dedicated to Swiss woman Anna Göldi, often referred to as Europe’s last witch, has received an anonymous donation of one million francs from someone described […]