The sage-related ritual of “smudging,” an Indigenous ceremony popular among modern witches for cleansing a person or place of negative energy, “is not a Jewish practice,” she said.

Maryland is the most recent state to introduce legislation to exonerate those convicted of witchcraft centuries ago. But why ...

There are still many misconceptions and stereotypes when it comes to witchcraft. Namely, people believe all modern witchcraft is associated with the devil. But, this is not the case. Mankey said ...

Pascal Plante’s eerie thriller questions the morality of true crime fandom and the emptiness of our digital lives ...

What is the 'modern' version of a witch hunt? As was the case in Salem, modern witch hunts involve the trial and persecution of people who have been accused of witchcraft. The hunts can often ...

As followers of a movement called Wicca, these modern day witches don’t worship the Devil, or perform animal or human sacrifices, but instead celebrate nature. A witch doctor, or ojha ...

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic and its founder, Gardner, is considered the “father of modern witchcraft.” ...

smacks of a regression of society and little more than a modern day witch hunt. I have ridden similar but on a much, much smaller scale storms in these columns over the years. Don’t like something I ...