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This painting from 1853 depicts American officials looking for the devil's mark on the body of a young girl accused of witchcraft.

Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – by Carl Sagan

In the book, astrophysicist Carl Sagan aims to explain the scientific method to laypeople, and to encourage people to learn critical and skeptical thinking. He explains methods to help distinguish between ideas that are considered valid science, and ideas that can be considered pseudoscience. Sagan states that when new ideas are offered for consideration, they should be tested by means of skeptical thinking, and should stand up to rigorous questioning.

The Guru Busters (1995) – by Robert Eagle

On the road with India’s anti-superstition campaigners confronting fraudulent gurus and quacks. The film reveals the trickery behind pseudo-magical phenomena such as levitation, materialization and walking on fire and questions the credibility of leading “god men” such as Satya Sai Baba.