Cauldrons filled with mysterious potions, disappearing animals, and crotchety old women sporting comically sharp, black hats — that's how witchcraft is usually represented, commercially at least.

There’s no sorting hat, wands or flying broomsticks, but magical mysteries still await. A university in the United Kingdom will be offering the country’s first ever postgraduate degree in magic and ...

Metaphysical shops are translating online curiosity about crystals, tarot, and witchcraft into local commerce, classes, and community. In the recent hit horror movie Obsession, the main character’s ...

“When your coven gets together, do you, like, call the corners?” asks Keith, a modern-day witch hunter on a recent episode of AMC’s series “Mayfair Witches.” This question might go over the heads of ...

Witches paying homage to the devil, by Mario Guazzo, from 1608. Right now, the walls of Mortlake & Company are covered with images of witches. Nude figures kneel by cauldrons, wielding skulls and ...

1,100 Pagans gather in a clothing optional tent village in a forest clearing two hours west of Chicago. Women from an all-female strain of Wicca reach into bowls of mugwort and throw the silvery herb ...

Historically villainized and recently idolized, the figure of the witch persists and evolves. Often broomstick-riding, black cat-carrying, and sin-ridden, historical portrayals of witches riff off ...

Bebergal (Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood) displays an intelligent understanding of the interaction between religion and culture when he argues that the "occult imagination is the ...

(RNS) — As witches and interest in Wicca became more common in the broader culture, occult consultants are finding more work on film and television sets. (RNS) — “When your coven gets together, do you ...