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

Elwynn Green’s morning routine is relatively unremarkable, at least at the start. With his wife, Green wakes up his three daughters, makes them breakfast and prepares their lunches. Once they’re ...

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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might have heard about the internet in the 1990s – a veritable badlands of patchwork information, nascent digital ...

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, ...

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