Ann "Goody" Glover was an Irish Catholic who moved to Boston - at the time, part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - with her ...

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.

This Halloween, as children dress as witches for trick-or-treating, a real witch in Wausau is celebrating the ancient Celtic festival that started it all.

Drawing on witchcraft cases reported in newspapers and coming before Ireland's courts, this article argues that witch belief remained part of Protestant and Catholic popular culture throughout the ...

"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." ...

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 ...