A plaque has been unveiled in Northern Ireland to commemorate the last witch trial to take place on the island of Ireland, in 1711. At a trial in a Carrickfergus courthouse in County Antrim, eight ...
DUBLIN — In the season of the supernatural that just passed, the city of Salem gets some serious media coverage outside New England on account of its witch trials, which from June through September ...
1711 Ireland: A Witch's Fate is one of the first productions launched at Studio Ulster [Ulster University] It is a centuries-old gruesome tale of fear, horror, injustice and alleged witchcraft in ...
As instability rises, and patriarchal societies begin to hold less weight, an intrigue in the occult has risen for Irish women, Kate Demolder writes Phoebe O'Regan burns sage to clear the energy ...
Think of the witch trials and you probably conjure an image of the 16th or 17th Century in Scotland, central Europe or colonial America. But this week, one town is remembering the woman believed to ...
On Halloween night, Charlene Dzielak will light candles and incense in front of an altar and invite her departed loved ones to join her in a "dumb supper," a feast eaten in silence out of reverence ...
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 ...
In the season of the supernatural that’s upon us, the city of Salem, Mass., gets some serious media coverage outside New England on account of its witch trials, which from June through September 1692 ...