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>> thanks, rachel. >> all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldnt believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinio...

and i think thats, i think, part of the reason that youve had so much discussion today about whats next, because if theyre willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we dont care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. >> and when you think of the presidents who mad...

WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT: The deer head was found resting on a parish council headstone commemorating the year 2000 in Burley, Hampshire.

We look at 'Britain's most famous witch' Sybil Leek, after the village she lived in, Burley in Hampshire, is hit with sacrificial killings.

Despite what we might have assumed, it wasn’t all about the sex

Familiars, spiritual beings that serve witches, weren’t always seen as evil. Legends used to speak of them as guardians or helpful demons.

At least 175 claims of crimes by occultists have been reported in the last six years with some of the most wacky claims involving assault and abuse involving voodoo dolls and curses.

The witch hunts that swept across Europe between 1450 and 1750 are one of the most controversial and terrifying phenomena in history, resulting in the trial of around 100,000 people (most of them women), a little under half of whom were put to death. Here, Tracy Borman explores the most notorious royal witch-hunter of all time: James VI and I...

A NEW memorial has been erected in Scalloway to commemorate the people who were killed during the Shetland witchcraft trials in the 17th century. Following the Witchcraft Act in 1563, many people were killed under the accusation of being allegedly witches during the 17th...

Artist Carolyn Sutton will be hosting the event