Witchcraft is a history of witch trials told through thirteen distinct, vivid cases, linked by the misogyny, fear, and conspiratorial thinking that follow the idea of the "witch" through time and across continents. From Vardø Island, Norway, in the 1620s, to the Salem witch trials, revolutionary France, and twentieth-century Lesotho in southern Africa, Gibson's history traces how witchcraft became feared, decriminalized, reimagined, and eventually reframed as gendered persecution-takes on the intersections between gender and power, indigenous spirituality and colonial rule, political oppression and individual resistance. A vivid, compelling, and dramatic story that unspools through the centuries about the men and women who were accused-not all of whom survived their trials-Witchcraft empowers the people who were and are victimized and marginalized, giving voice to those silenced by history.