Walpurga Hausmännin, a German midwife accused of witchcraft, confessed to killing 41 babies, 2 women in labor, and at least 9 cows before she was burned at the stake in 1587. But those and other ...

Here in the U.S., where there is evidently an acute shortage of formally trained exorcists, burgeoning numbers of suffering souls--some deeply disillusioned with or wary of what mainstream psychology ...

There is murder, execution, fornication with the Devil and the summoning of evil spirits among the stories of the past according to expert Malcolm Gaskill It's Halloween on Monday and thoughts will ...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Something about the great European witch craze never made sense. Why did this “primitive” hysteria come as late as it did, beginning only in the mid-15th century and ...

While many Latinos in the United States are leaving the Catholic Church in favor of Evangelical religions or none at all, that doesn’t mean they’re losing their spirituality. A recent Pew Research ...

The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...