Australian occultist and witch Rosaleen Norton in 1943. (Wikimedia Commons)

Generation Witch

A short introduction to the birth of modern witchcraft

Only in 1951 did Britain lift its last law against witches. The Witchcraft Act of 1735, dating in its earliest form to the mid-sixteenth century, was finally repealed due to lobbying efforts by English Spiritualists who, although organized into ecclesiastic churches, were sometimes harassed under its strictures.