Marion Gibson

I write about witches in history from the middle ages to the present.

I got interested in stories of magic and witchcraft when I read news accounts of witch trials in Elizabethan England: I realised that whilst I didn't believe the accused people had been doing actual magic, I had no good explanation of why they would confess. What was going on here? What stories were they telling us about their lives? From this came my lifelong interest in storytelling about witches.