Witchcraft is open to interpretation depending on the practitioner or scholar. It dates back to the 10th century, but there are modern practitioners.

My research originally focused on historical witchcraft, with my dissertation on the witch trials of the early modern period in England. In 1986, after years of research, I received a call from the ...

While modern witchcraft is inclusive of many different genders and identities, witches in ancient myth and literature were almost exclusively women. Their stories were in part about navigating gender ...

He’s not Wiccan or pagan, religions that are rooted in witchcraft. He has a few cats, though they’re better suited for snuggling than serving as helpful familiars. There is no one way to be a ...

Witchcraft is open to interpretation depending on the practitioner or scholar. It dates back to the 10th century, but there are modern practitioners.

However you became interested in magic – it’s valid. For me, it was fiction that led me to look into old beliefs, societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, modern Wicca, and ...

When modern Wicca was first “organized as a religion in the wake of World War II,” Raedisch said, “German traditions, understandably, were pretty unpopular.” ...