Triora: the Italian Village of the Terrifying trial to the Witches.
Triora is a medieval village once a crossroads of considerable importance for trade between Italy and France. In 1587, bad weather and pitiful crops led to a famine, and the […]
Biddy Early: Healer, Herbalist, Clairvoyant…or Witch?
On the afternoon of 22nd April, 1874 a woman called Biddy Early died in her small, two-roomed, mud-walled cottage. Her life story was first published in 1903 and since that […]
Strandagaldur: the macabre museum of sorcery in Iceland. Another world…
Iceland, in the seventeenth century, was certainly not the place more appropriate to lead a pleasant existence: natural disasters and difficult climate, constant pirate raids, a notable economic disparity between […]
