The Witch as Muse

In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four ...

Canidia is one of the most well-attested witches in Latin literature. She appears in no fewer than six of Horace’s poems and in three she has a prominent role. Throughout Horace’s ...

Chapter11 scrutinizes Sylvia Townsend Warner’s (1893–1978) debut novel Lolly Willowes (1926), which tells the tale of spinster Laura ‘Lolly’ Willowes, who ends up becoming a witch ...

This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially o...

This article focuses on the body of the witch as her bond to the Devil. Witches were identified and punished through the guidance of the Malleus Malleficarum, a key text of the Inq...