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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'You Won't Be Alone'

Screening at the London Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival, Goran Stolevski’s thoughtful and chillingly lyrical folk-horror fairytale is nothing short of a masterstroke.

7 October 2022

Culture news

Walpurgis Night: the pagan festival of bonfires, witches & folk music

Walpurgis Night, a tradition celebrated on 30 April in northern Europe and Scandinavia, sees people light bonfires and sing along to Celtic folk music in order to ward off evil spirits and witches

2 May 2022

United Kingdom

Scotland sorry over killing of thousands of women for 'witchcraft'

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, around 4,000 people in Scotland were accused of 'witchcraft'.

9 March 2022

Spain

Catalonia pardons hundreds of women executed for 'witchcraft'

Historians believe that the majority of "witchcraft" executions in Spain took place in Catalonia.

26 January 2022

Europe

Scotland could soon pardon thousands of women executed as witches

Nearly 4,000 people in Scotland were accused of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736, many of whom were tortured and executed.

20 December 2021

Lifestyle

Smells like witch spirit: Ancient myths and their scented sorceresses

What does a witch smell like, and why would you deliberately perfume yourself like one?

26 October 2021

United Kingdom

Meet the lawyer fighting to exonerate Scotland's forgotten witches

Lawyer Claire Mitchell QC is leading the campaign to pardon and commemorate the voiceless women who were falsely accused of witchcraft and executed in Scotland nearly five centuries ago.

30 October 2020