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 ...

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.

A surprising genealogy of neopaganism. Type “burning times” into any major Internet search engine and you will be engulfed by a host of websites all telling essentially the same tale about the ...

Britain’s Wicca Man tells the extraordinary story of Britain's fastest growing religious group - Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner. Historian and leading expert ...

(RNS) — This time of year, a bruja, or witch, practices central Mexican Indigenous rituals and modern pagan ones, both honoring the Earth and “us as individuals as part of nature.” But the holidays of ...

Nice, a witch whose YouTube channel has 491,000 subscribers, compiles basic information on solitary eclectic neopagan practice in her muddled debut. Though Nice notes that “in the last five years, ...

(RNS) — One of the eight sabbats, or modern pagan holidays, Beltane is a celebration of community after the colder months and of the returning fertility of the land. (RNS) — “Love, whose month is ever ...

Pagans have long had a bad rap. Ethan Doyle White’s “Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends + Rituals” corrects misconceptions and explains their intricate belief systems and rich ...

When Krista Hudson-Melone opened their shop in an Oxford outdoor mall a year ago, a neighboring tenant offered a heads-up: People were calling Hudson-Melone a witch. "I was like, ‘Well, I hope so,'" ...