Patricia Crowther was one of the High Priestesses initiated by Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern Wicca, and is considered highly influential in the early

Aleister Crowley was a British occultist and writer and an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the

After the mid-20th Century, modern Wicca became established, and these biographies include selected early adopters and promoters of Wicca and some of the major influences

In Greek mythology, flame-haired Circe is a minor goddess (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress) living on the island of Aeaea. She was

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. The god Apollo became infatuated with her beauty and granted

Laurie Cabot is an American witch, author, artist and businesswoman. In the 1970s, she was declared the “Official Witch of Salem”, which attracted much scorn

Zsuzsanna Budapest (often known as simply “Z”, and sometimes incorrectly spelled as Zuzanna, Zuzana, Suzanna, Susanna or Susana) is an American hereditary witch of Hungarian

Raymond Buckland is a prolific author, a Wiccan priest and a much sought-after authority on the occult, magic and the supernatural. He was largely responsible

Tamsin Blight (aka Tammy Blee or Tamson) the so-called “White Witch of Helston”, was undoubtedly the greatest of the Cornish conjurors during the 19th Century,

Angéle de la Barthe was a prosperous woman of Toulouse, France, who was supposedly tried for witchcraft and condemned to death by the Inquisition in

Baba Yaga, in Slavic folklore, is a witch-like character who flies around on a giant mortar and pestle, kidnaps and threatens to eat small children,

Aradia was a mythological figure who appeared in Charles Godfrey Leland’s influential 19th Century book “Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches”. Both the figure

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer and alchemist. While not himself a witch per se, he is well-known

Margot Adler is an influential American author, journalist, lecturer and Wiccan priestess. Her 1979 study of contemporary nature religions, “Drawing Down the Moon”, is considered

Abramelin was a semi-mythical Egyptian mage or magician who taught a powerful form of Kabbalistic magic in his famous grimoire, “The Book of Abramelin”. It

Abaris the Hyperborean was a semi-legendary sage, healer, magician and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks. He was said to be endowed with

The Würzburg Witch Trials in 1626 – 1631, were one of the biggest mass-trials and mass-executions ever seen in seen in Europe during peace time.

The accusation, trial and execution for witchcraft of Alice Samuel and her family in the village of Warboys, in the fens of England, occurred between

The witch trials at Vardø in Finnmark, northern Norway, during the winter of 1662 – 1663, was one of the largest in Scandinavia. Thirty people

The Valais Witch Trials took place in the Duchy of Savoy (in today’s southeastern France and Switzerland) between 1428 and 1447. The persecutions started in

The two trials which took place in Val Camonica in the Italian Alps, in 1505 – 1510 and 1518 – 1521, were among the biggest

The witch trials that took place at Trier in western Germany in the years from 1581 to 1593 was one of the largest in Europe.

The Torsåker Witch Trials, the largest single witch-trial in Sweden, took place in Torsåker, a village in central Sweden, in 1675, towards the end of

The witch trials which took place in the city of Szeged in Hungary in 1728 – 1729, at the height of the country’s witch hysteria,

The Spa Witch Trials took place in the city of Spa in present day Belgium (then part of the Spanish Netherlands) in 1616. It was