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 ...

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

If you thought that accusations of witchcraft were a quaint moral panic surely left behind in the Salem witch trial era — well, think again. Some American pastors are still accusing their own ...

The history of witchcraft and the centuries of persecution that it has aroused have been explored in a new book focusing on 13 of the most infamous cases from around the world. Witchcraft: A History ...

WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS. By Grady Hendrix. Berkley. 496 pages. $30. The Charleston region has its share of homegrown authors, but there’s only one Grady Hendrix. You’ll find no Pat Conroy ...

When you think of a witch, what do you picture? Maybe you imagine cool teenage girls like in Sabrina or The Craft or a sisterhood like in Practical Magic. Or do you see bubbling cauldrons and toads ...

In her new book, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft, Diana Helmuth explores witchcraft as a religion and confronts her own skepticism. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As ...

Fans of novelist Grady Hendrix know him for the campy (in the best way), even whimsical vibes he brings to the horror genre. In books like "Horrorstör," my personal favorite of his works, you get ...

In 1532, when the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina became the law of the Holy Roman Empire, it specified that witchcraft was a serious crime, punishable by execution by fire. The Carolina was often ...

From the historic Salem witch trials to the teens in The Craft and Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, witches have long cast a spell on Hollywood's imagination – but they're not just figments ...