Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set ...

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 ...

Popular on social media, the green witchcraft trend reveals how the witch has evolved into an ecofeminist heroine for our times.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, ...

In the 18th-century etching “A Coven of Witches,” artist Dominique Vivant Denon depicts a somewhat domestic scene of witches studying magic books as demons hold torches for them to read by. Courtesy ...

A beautiful anime conveying the wonder at the core of fantasy magic, Witch Hat Atelier sets up a uniquely promising start for its Spring 2026 debut.

When Seattle-based bruja Bri Luna founded her website, The Hood Witch, 10 years ago, it served as a spiritual intervention of sorts. In 2013, witches were all the rage on social media. Young white ...

For Flores and Charles the practice of their craft is “a family thing” going back to the divine practices of their Peruvian and Afro-Caribbean ancestors and the Scottish and German progenitors on ...

Most perfume ads suggest that the right scent can make you sexy, alluring and successful. A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek ...

Critiqued by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, "Form and meaning of magical acts: a point of view," pages 199-229. In: Modes of thought: essays on thinking in Western and non-Western societies, edited by ...