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 ...

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 ...

You probably remember backyard games, doodling symbols in the dirt, or trying to “read” someone’s future by staring at their ...

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) — The Great Rite, a Wiccan ritual celebrating the creative union of the masculine and feminine, commonly occurs after a priest and a priestess call in the God and the Goddess, the Earth-based ...

(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 ...

What does it mean to be a modern-day “good witch” in pop culture? Must you live a “normal,” albeit eccentric life? Bring down evil entities in your spare time? Descend from persecuted witches—or those ...

On Halloween night, Charlene Dzielak will light candles and incense in front of an altar and invite her departed loved ones to join her in a "dumb supper," a feast eaten in silence out of reverence ...