Witchcraft

National Bestseller A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A “thought-provoking and timely” ( The Times , London) global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate a pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. This “inventive and compelling” ( The Times Literary Supplement , London) work of social history travels through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous—like the