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.

(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 ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Modern witchcraft is a vibrant subculture that has undergone a highly-visible renaissance in recent years, exploding across social media, ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Though it was 10 years ago, Professor Steve D. Vossen remembers like it was yesterday the call from Debbie Bellucci, a former dean at Springfield Technical Community ...

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 ...

As the budding restaurateurs suffer 17th-century flashbacks, Jamie Campbell Bower – AKA Vecna in Stranger Things – saves director Chuck Russell’s remake from cheesy oblivion ...

This author is hex positive! A Bushwick writer will spell out the historic connection between powerful women and accusations of broom-riding, spellcasting evil at a female-focused festival in ...

It helps to think of “The Last Witch Hunter” as a paranormal police procedural. Set in New York City, as cop shows often are, it’s a story of a brooding investigator (Vin Diesel) trying to solve a ...