A closer look at how witchcraft and the Supernatural influenced some of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. Resources for primary and secondary students.

The symbols are known as apotropaic marks and tend to be carved into stone or woodwork near entrances like doorways, windows and fireplaces. IT's thought that they would then ward off witches and ...

People were extremely superstitious in Shakespeare’s day. This affected people’s views on everything from religion to treating illnesses. Some people even accused local women of being witches.

This Halloween, members of the public are being urged to look for "witches' marks" carved into the walls of their homes and surrounding buildings. The unusual symbols were "cut, scratched or ...

The faint symbols, which have been found on the Tower of London and at Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, offered protection when belief in the supernatural and witchcraft was rife.

Women of the Early 1900s Rallied Behind Beautiful, Wartless Witches Women looking to work, vote and marry whomever they wanted turned the Halloween icon into a powerful symbol ...

Shakespeare’s plays have an uncanny ability to reflect our world back to us. Rereading “Hamlet” after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, I noticed just how prominently the fear of political ...

WAVE Productions’ take on Shakespeare’s classic “Macbeth” brings the play’s oft-overlooked yet omnipresent witches and women to the forefront. WAVE will present its rendition of ...

What: 'Macbeth,' by William Shakespeare, presented by Cape Fear Shakespeare on the Green When: 8 p.m. June 13-15, 21-22 and 26-27. Where: Hugh Morton/Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, 1941 ...