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

#hextag #skystorians
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
janmachielsen.bsky.social
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
webstermedieval.bsky.social
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
hagenilda.bsky.social
#Hextag #MedievalSky #EarlyModernists
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
janmachielsen.bsky.social
Really enjoyed co-teaching this 👇 #hextag courselast year. Do check it out, and get in touch if you have any questions. 😊
histassoc.bsky.social Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 27d
SHORT COURSE

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
willpooley.bsky.social
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
Gerald Gardner (1884-1964) provided the central inspiration for Wicca, as a modern, revived, form of Pagan witchcraft. As such, his cultural and religious significance has grown exponentially over the 60 years since his death. 'A Rough Magic' re-evaluates the sources of Gardner's inspiration, redefines his early life within the context of colonial Malaya and the opium trade, and emphasises his vision and ability in fashioning an entirely new synthesis of magical beliefs drawn from both Eastern and Western traditions. In so doing, he stripped away the demonic elements of witchcraft and emphasised Wicca as a creative, mutable and undogmatic nature religion, serving as both fertility cult and a unique source of personal empowerment, that was capable of transforming the world.
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
lhlindgaard.bsky.social
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
willpooley.bsky.social
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
spookyhist.bsky.social
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
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads: The Spooky History Conference 2025 Call for Papers We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky! Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Ghosts The Supernatural Witches Death Gothic Literature The History of Halloween We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025 The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
janmachielsen.bsky.social
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
spookyhist.bsky.social
🗃️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
Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads: The Spooky History Conference 2025 Call for Papers We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky! Suggested topics include but are not limited to: Ghosts The Supernatural Witches Death Gothic Literature The History of Halloween We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025 The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
willpooley.bsky.social
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
willpooley.bsky.social will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 11
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
willpooley.bsky.social
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
🗃️
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
willpooley.bsky.social
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 🗃️
Sign for the Anna Göldi museum against a white wall Entrance to the Anna Göldi exhibit itself, two banners hang down from the ceiling to left and right. On the left, an image from a woodcut shows witches flying to the sabbath. To the right reads Anna Göldi and introduces the reader to the European witch hunts A (convincing fake of a) book by Heinrich Ludwig Lehmann: “Heinrich Ludwig Lehmann. Freundschaftliche und vertrauliche Briefe, den so genannten sehr berüchtigten Hexenhandel zu Glarus betreffend. Erstes und zweytes Heft (Friendly and confidential letters regarding the highly notorious so-called witch trial in Glarus. First and second booklet). Facsimile of the original, printed in Zurich in 1783 Eveline Hasler’s novel “Anna Göldin- Letzte Hexe”, one of several fictional treatments but the one arguably most responsible for reigniting interest in the twentieth century. “Letzte Hexe Published by Benziger Verlag Zurich, Cologne. 4th Edition, 1984. Eveline Hasler (*1933) ist eine Schweizer Autorin; ihre Romane behandeln meist einheimische Themen. Nachdem Berta Rahm 1979 als erste Frau über Anna Göldi geschrieben hatte, erreichte der Roman von Eveline Hasler ein breites Publikum. In dem Buch zeigt sie Anna Göldi als selbstständige Frau, die das Machtgefüge der Glarner Gesellschaft durcheinander-bringt und dafür büssen muss. Eveline Hasler (*1933) is a Swiss author whose novels deal mainly with local themes. Following the work of Berta Rahm, who became the first woman to write about Anna Göldi in 1979, this novel by Eveline Hasler reached a wide audience. In the book, she portrays Anna Göldi as an independent woman, who disturbs the power structures within Glarus society and is made to pay for it.”
August 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
webstermedieval.bsky.social
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
witchmapproject.bsky.social Witch Map Project @witchmapproject.bsky.social · Aug 8
📢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
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources:

salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/pr...

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/site...

#earlymodern #medievalsky #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #salem #hextag
Proctor's Ledge Memorial - Salem Witch Museum
For many years it was believed that the nineteen innocent people who were executed in Salem in 1692 were hanged at the summit of Gallows Hill, on the edge of...
salemwitchmuseum.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:25 AM
webstermedieval.bsky.social
Fantastic to see the blog post from the @witchmapproject.bsky.social team on the Cardiff Supernatural blogspot this morning: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/cardiff-supe...
#medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag @janmachielsen.bsky.social @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social
Cardiff Supernatural - Cardiff University
Cardiff students reflecting on witches, saints, wonders and more.
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources: vocal.media/history/kath...

historyheroines.com/2018/04/04/k...

www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/reme....

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
Katharina Henot
The Witch of Cologne
vocal.media
July 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources: hagothehills.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/g...

www.atlasobscura.com/places/griss...

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
Grissel Jaffray – The Dundee Witch
Grissel Jaffray was the last so called “witch” to burn in Dundee. Not a huge amount is known about the charges brought against her as documents relating to her trial were mysteriously d…
hagothehills.wordpress.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/...

www.reuters.com/article/life...

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
Last ‘witch’ given ‘eternal light’ memorial
Anna Göldi, a servant, was denounced as a witch after her employer’s eight-year-old daughter fell ill and began spitting up pins during fits of coughing, according to documents in the local archives. ...
www.swissinfo.ch
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources: magicbohemia.com/the-witches-...

sumpersky.denik.cz/ctenar-repor...

regiony.rozhlas.cz/carodejnicke...

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
The Witches’ Hammer trials in Moravia and Silesia
A small area at the edge of the Czech Republic saw hundreds executed for witchcraft. The incident inspired the film Witches Hammer.
magicbohemia.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources: agricolaverkko.fi/keskustelu/v...

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
Oulussa paljastettiin noitavainojen uhrien muistomerkki - Agricolan uutis- ja keskustelufoorumit
agricolaverkko.fi
July 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
witchmapproject.bsky.social
Sources:

hiddenscotland.com/listings/the...

www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-w...

#history #witchtrials #salemwitchtrials #memorial #witchhunt #witchcraft #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag
The Witches' Well - Hidden Scotland
The Witches' Well, located near the entrance to Edinburgh Castle on the historic Royal Mile, serves as a solemn yet understated reminder of Scotland’s darker past. This small bronze and stone memori
hiddenscotland.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
webstermedieval.bsky.social
The first Memorial of the Day from the @witchmapproject.bsky.social team. #medievalsky #earlymodern #hextag #history #folklore @janmachielsen.bsky.social
witchmapproject.bsky.social Witch Map Project @witchmapproject.bsky.social · Jul 16
☀️ 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
webstermedieval.bsky.social
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
witchmapproject.bsky.social Witch Map Project @witchmapproject.bsky.social · Jul 16
📢 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