#HexTag
We're back briefly to share this with everyone! We hope you enjoy.

#hextag #skystorians
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Just boosting @webstermedieval.bsky.social 's #medievalsky #earlymodern post on 🎃👻🕸️ Halloween.

If you're interested in witchy #hextag stuff, then our article and the blog posts by our @witchmapproject.bsky.social interns are an excellent starting point. 😊
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Great to have a piece in The Conversation about the @witchmapproject.bsky.social I was part of with @janmachielsen.bsky.social and our brilliant student interns Abi and Gabriel. #hextag #earlymodern #skystorians
theconversation.com/witch-memori...
Witch memorials are quietly spreading across Europe
As long as we live in a world where people are persecuted for perceived differences, memorialising accused witches will reveal the deadly consequences of ‘othering’.
theconversation.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Really enjoyed co-teaching this 👇 #hextag courselast year. Do check it out, and get in touch if you have any questions. 😊
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From fear to folklore, explore the history of witchcraft in our on-demand short course, free for members.
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The newest volume in the Cambridge Elements in Magic is John Callow’s ‘Gerald Gardner and the Creation of Wicca’.

The PDF is free to download and read for 2 weeks!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🗃️ #HexTag #Wicca #Witches #Gardner
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
For all Danes interested in our own witch-hunting history, I can suggest tuning in to DR2 on Monday 📺 (or Sunday for streaming)

Here, I - and other lovely people such as @witchykallestrup.bsky.social - feature in DRs new four episode documentary “Heksejagt”.

#Skystorians #hextag 🗃️
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
someone needs to stop me @drlaurakounine.bsky.social ??? i just wrote this in a draft

“from Circe to Sabrina, via Sycorax”

#HexTag
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃

🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I had a brilliant set of UG dissertation students last year.

One wrote an excellent blog on counterfactual history and the North Berwick witch-hunt: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...

Have a read! I think counterfactual history is a tool that #earlymodern #hextag peeps should use more often. 😊
Would the North Berwick Witch Trials have happened without King James VI? A Counterfactual History (Lucy Martin)
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🗃️Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference! 👻

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃

#skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
thanks to @drjamesbrown.bsky.social i can confirm that the original pamphlet context for this image is pretty clear that the figure on the left is a witch and that on the right, the devil, rather than a Black witch #HexTag
shot in the dark: im interested in this 1720 woodcut held by Wellcome. do any #witchcraft #HexTag people know anything (???) about it?

id also take suggestions for who i could contact at the Wellcome to ask for more details eg provenance (not listed) wellcomecollection.org/works/h4r27epm
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Witchcraft: a white-faced witch meeting a black-faced witch with a great beast. Woodcut, 1720.
Witchcraft: a white-faced witch meeting a black-faced witch with a great beast. Woodcut, 1720.
wellcomecollection.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
shot in the dark: im interested in this 1720 woodcut held by Wellcome. do any #witchcraft #HexTag people know anything (???) about it?

id also take suggestions for who i could contact at the Wellcome to ask for more details eg provenance (not listed) wellcomecollection.org/works/h4r27epm
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Witchcraft: a white-faced witch meeting a black-faced witch with a great beast. Woodcut, 1720.
Witchcraft: a white-faced witch meeting a black-faced witch with a great beast. Woodcut, 1720.
wellcomecollection.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ok ok i know youve all been waiting with bated breath.

a few choice images from the Anna Göldi museum in Glarus, which pitches her as the “last witch executed in Europe”

#hextag #witchcraft 🗃️
August 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Check out the second blog from the brilliant @witchmapproject.bsky.social student interns. Really interesting to see some of the conclusions of their research! #hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky #folklorefriday
📢Good morning and long time no see! Our second blog post about the Witch Map Project has just been uploaded. Please consider taking a look if you're interested in learning more about the conclusions we drew from our research.

blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...
From Orkney to Odisha, and Beyond: The Witch Map Project and Global Witchcraft Memorials (Abigail Heneghan and Gabriel Hyde)
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
☀️ Memorial Of The Day (MOTD): The Steilneset Memorial Site in Vardø, Norway.

This beautiful structure opened in 2011 after a collaboration between artist Louise Bourgeois and architect Peter Zumthor. It honours the 91 people executed for witchcraft during the 1600-1692 Finnmark Witch Trials.
July 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Check out the map of witchcraft memorials round the world that the students on @witchmapproject.bsky.social have put together. Do get in touch with the team (further info in the thread below), if you've further examples to share. #earlymodern #hextag #medievalsky #history @janmachielsen.bsky.social
📢 Today, we want to share our current map with you! If you notice anything we might have missed, please contact us at witchmapproject@gmail.com along with any sources. In the replies, we will list the criteria for entries as well as a guide to the colour-coding.

www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...
Witchcraft memorials public - Google My Maps
Witchcraft memorials public
www.google.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM