You probably remember backyard games, doodling symbols in the dirt, or trying to “read” someone’s future by staring at their ...

If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, riding broomsticks and wickedly cackling over cauldrons. Unsurprisingly, ...

Elwynn Green’s morning routine is relatively unremarkable, at least at the start. With his wife, Green wakes up his three daughters, makes them breakfast and prepares their lunches. Once they’re ...

(RNS) — It’s late October, and witches’ phones are ringing. Every year as we approach Halloween, media outlets hungrily seek out witches for stories that discover, year after year, that witchcraft is ...

Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: “When did everyone ...

Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch hunting through the ages. Can men be witches or only women? Do witches ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Phillips Stevens Jr., PhD, a University at Buffalo cultural anthropologist, says that while magic and witchcraft are both thoroughly researched topics across various academic ...

You might have heard about the internet in the 1990s – a veritable badlands of patchwork information, nascent digital ...

Although Lydia Vilt practices magic, she said it isn’t anything like Harry Potter. Vilt, an English junior, is a pagan and said magic is often a part of her daily life and her religious customs.

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