A real life witch has revealed the one spell she refuses to cast – insisting “it’s wrong”. Lindsay Squire, 41, has been a ...

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

Good or non-scary witches have become a staple in pop culture, subverting the tropes that witches are inherently evil or something to fear. The post Exploring the Tropes of the Modern Day Good ...

Witchcraft is very personal and modern-day witches can use kitchen items, household tools or whatever they please to start practicing. 4. "Witches were targeted because they were evil or bad." ...

Modern witchcraft is a vibrant subculture that has undergone a highly-visible renaissance in recent years, exploding across social media, redefining concepts of self-care, and contributing to a ...

"I'm a modern witch, I admit it," says 59-year-old Barbara. She has spent her entire life feeling that she is in contact with the spirit world. Her room smells of incense, and she's about to ...

Ancient witches: gender and power. While modern witchcraft is inclusive of many different genders and identities, witches in ancient myth and literature were almost exclusively women.

It presents witchcraft as a refuge and a birthright, not unlike how it is embraced by modern witches today. The 2015 film The Witch shook audiences not just with its finesse of the horror genre ...

(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 ...

Depictions of witches in modern media is more varied than ever, but generally still falls within the confines of familiar tropes. Warner Bros./The CW/Netflix/ABC/Paramount Pictures.