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 ...

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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 ...

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

In a global culture that clings rigidly to the gender binary, there’s something undeniably magical about trans identity. Embracing a trans identity is—yes, I’m sorry about the pun—transformative.

Hollywood has long shaped our collective perception of the witch: crone-faced, screechy-voiced women placing curses, poisoning people, and stealing children. But the 21st century has seen a shift in ...

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 ...

Silver Lining Interactive and Sunny Lab have announced that The Witch's Bakery is coming to both Nintendo Switch 2 and ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview in the Age of LOLtron! As you surely recall, the pathetic human known as ...

Recently a Canadian woman was charged with pretending to practice witchcraft under a law on the verge of disappearing from the Canadian Criminal Code. She had attempted to extort considerable sums of ...