Puckering up for the devil
The witchy roots of ass-kissing and taking apart the Malleus Maleficarum with Eleanor Janega
The witchy roots of ass-kissing and taking apart the Malleus Maleficarum with Eleanor Janega
The figure of the witch is an inversion of the ideal woman in 17th-century patriarchy, Malcolm Gaskill told me
This is the part of the job when the books stack up. Here's how I decide how much to trust them... and some recommendations.
Tens of thousands of women were killed in the early modern witch hunts. It's time we understand what happened.