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 ...

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 term brujería has been used in many ways and depicted in different cultures over the years. A Spanish term, brujería formally means witchcraft and is used to "describe or disparage occult ...

In the mid-15th century, Europe was a panicking, volatile witch-hunt hotspot. Thousands of supposed witches (mostly women, of course), thought to have been practising magic or making pacts with Satan, ...

Hocus Pocus is one of my very favorite films, and it made me fall in love with the idea of a grimoire. The Sanderson sisters’ grimoire was a giant, sentient tome that featured a creepy, blinking eye ( ...

(RNS) — In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest “Macbeth” ...

Rhonda Roberts, 49, moved to Adelaide more than 20 years ago and now runs Witch of the Woods Wellness & Adelaide Witch School ...