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

It seems as if very few students today actually believe in superstitions. Most deem them made-up sayings that come from uneducated people. “Superstitions were made up by idiots who were desperate for ...

There is more to being a witch than just doing spells and reading tarot cards or checking a zodiac sign astrology chart. The practice of witchcraft is used to achieve goals, control your energy, and ...

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...

(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 ...

The public image of witchcraft, Wicca and Paganism is of a tradition that embraces women and places them at their centers. After all, the stereotypical image of a witch is of a woman: brewing potions, ...

Manifesting is one of many practices that commonly fall under the realm of contemporary paganism, Berger said. Others are as diverse as the pagans and witches who practice them: tarot, spellwork, ...

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 ...

I spent five years immersed in the American pagan community—first at arm’s length as a journalist, then as someone personally curious about the rituals I’d observed, and finally, for a couple of years ...