To put the Pendle Witch Trails into context, imagine it’s 1612. Witch trials are sweeping through Europe. The shadow of the bloody crusades, finished nearly 200 years ago, still cast their shadow over a continent. Europe is in an era when the power of Rome is being challenged by the Reformation. Christianity has split into Roman Catholic and Protestant. Religious […]
The Pendle Witch Trials
Saudi Arabia’s witchcraft trials
Saudi Arabia presents an image of itself as a modern Islamic country, one where many westerners work and live. But underneath the thin veneer of capitalism and the carefully crafted marketing campaigns, autocratic rule and persecution of minorities runs rife. None more so than the persecution and murders of those practising ”witchcraft”. Taking a page out of the Roman Catholic […]