Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,' a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov. Tretyakov Gallery/Wikimedia ...

Witch bottles have washed up on Texas' gulf shore. Some cultures believe the bottles can thwart evil spells and torment witches. Jace Tunnell / Courtesy Centuries ago, people believed evil spells ...

“The gorgeousness of a modern magic tradition is that we get to curate it to suit us exactly,” according to this flexible and creative outing from memoirist Tea (Modern Tarot). After ditching her ...

EVERY village in Southern Italy has a mago, a stregone, a witch, often a woman, proficient in the art of casting and uncasting spells, of healing mysterious diseases and driving away evil spirits. It ...

We often find ourselves saying if we had a magic wand we could wave and make our problems disappear - we'd probably have wrist ache by now. That could explain the rising popularity of Etsy witches; ...

(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 ...

The initiation ritual to womanhood is not the day you get your first mascara and promptly speckle your eyelids with Dalmatian blotches of extra product. Nor is it the day you learn to easily heel-toe ...

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, ...

(The Conversation) — The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies. (The Conversation) — The word ...