Arrest for witchcraft (1866) by John Pettie. NGV April 29, 2024 ‘Witches’ are still killed all over the world. Pardoning past victims could end the practice Brendan C. Walsh, The University of Queensland Witch-hunts have not been consigned to the history books. An alarming number of witchcraft-related deaths are still happening each year across nearly every continent.
A group of witches offering wax effigies to the Devil in a 17th-century woodcut. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy April 10, 2024 Why so few witches were executed in Wales in the middle ages Mari Ellis Dunning, Aberystwyth University Only five witches were executed in Wales, while thousands were sentenced to death in Scotland and England.
Photo: Robert Perry/Getty Images, Photo-Illustration by The Conversation August 10, 2023 How ‘witch-hunts’ and ‘Stockholm syndrome’ became part of political language (and what it has to do with wrestling) Howard Manns, Monash University and Kate Burridge, Monash University How politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.