Witchcrafting A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic by Phyllis Curott Broadway Books, 304 pp., $25 BROWSE IN ANY bookstore’s “spirituality” section and you’ll find dozens of books about Wicca and the ...

Karen Silva and Sharon L’Heureux, both of Meriden, are proud to count themselves among the nation’s witches. The women are both priestesses of Wicca, a federally recognized neo-Pagan religion — and ...

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, ...

Joel Christensen is a professor of classical studies at Brandeis. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. Living on the North Shore in Boston in the fall brings the gorgeous turning of ...

It’s hard to imagine that the sleepy, bucolic New England town of Salem, Massachusetts, was once known for atrocity, paranoia, and murder. Driving along its winding roads, the proclaimed Witch City ...

(RNS) — The Great Rite, a Wiccan ritual celebrating the creative union of the masculine and feminine, commonly occurs after a priest and a priestess call in the God and the Goddess, the Earth-based ...

In the late ’90s young people religiously tuned their televisions to the WB, seeking their favorite TV shows. Charmed was a story following the lives of the Halliwell sisters who dazzled viewers with ...

(RNS) — Patricia Crowther, a Wiccan high priestess often described as the United Kingdom’s oldest witch, died in her home in Sheffield, England, on Sept. 24, at the age of 97. But Crowther was known ...