Ann "Goody" Glover was an Irish Catholic who moved to Boston - at the time, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - with her ...
The Islandmagee witch trials are believed to be Ireland's last and took place with a backdrop of the superstitions of ...
IN PRE-CHRISTIAN Ireland, four festivals celebrated the changing seasons: Imbolc signalled the beginning of spring and is now ...
Ulster University has launched a new video game experience that reimagines a real Irish witch trial.
BOSTON (AP) — She has crisscrossed the country saying she’s an Irish heiress, a psychic and good friends with a movie star in order to run scores of scams, her victims say. But now Marianne Smyth is ...
"Just as being labelled “witch” in past centuries resulted in ostracism, abuse, and possible death, being labelled “slut” today still holds immense pejorative power, even in post-feminist societies." ...