Witches

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Analysis

The book that taught us to think of witches as women

Written in fury after a failed trial in 1485, the Malleus Maleficarum fuelled 150 years of witch hunts that shaped how Europe imagined, hunted and executed women

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Research

The painting that changed how we study witch hunts

A 1523 painting of two naked witches conjuring a storm turned out to be a roadmap to Europe's witch hunts

Arts & Culture

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Research

The painting that changed how we study witch hunts

A 1523 painting of two naked witches conjuring a storm turned out to be a roadmap to Europe's witch hunts