In stories about witches, mirrors are almost always bad news. They shatter in haunted houses, trap wandering souls, and reveal things we were never meant to see. But in Old Europe, long before the ...
Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...
At this time of year, our thoughts start to change. It is our instinct to leave our summer memories in the past and begin to prepare for the approaching winter. But there is a brief period between ...