Folklore

Cannibals embodied the ritualized vengeance and physical incorporation that threatened and found themselves dependent, rather than conquering.

Midwives were commonly persecuted as witches in the history of witchcraft and in the history of medicine found in the…

The exploration of the supernatural and the sublime too, are common features of Latin American Gothic that are evident in…

From the mid sixteenth-century to mid seventeenth-century witch-hunts reached unprecedented frequency and intensity.

The identification of deviant burials as those of “vampires” is a feature of excavated skeletons across Eastern, Central and Southern…

Many historians of witchcraft and demonology have at times alluded to the seemingly transhistorical and transcultural nature of their studies.

Witchcraft’s basis in historical fact rests on the seventeenth‐century witch‐trials, most infamous of which were the Pendle witch‐trials at Lancaster…

As a hybrid creature, both human and animal, the werewolf is in a unique position to interact with both rural…