(RNS) — In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest “Macbeth” ...

Wicca is a modern pagan religion that emerged in the mid-20th century. It draws inspiration from ancient nature-based traditions, folklore, and ceremonial magic. Wiccans typically worship a divine ...

Witches are often depicted as villains in fairy tales, or exercisers of the satanic occult in scary movies. But for practitioners of modern witchcraft, it is spiritual, empowering, and magical.

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SPRING HAS LONG BEEN associated with themes of renewal, fertility, and transformation. In Wiccan, Pagan, and Druidic ...

“I am not a witch.” Only in the ever-wackier 2010 election cycle would a campaign video start with such an assertion, but this particular ad was for Delaware’s Republican Senate candidate Christine ...

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