Occult elements like 666 symbols, inverted crosses and traditional witchcraft now infest the crime underworld.

There are about 40 occult-related gangs operating in one province. Understanding what draws young people to them is key to ...

This column unpacks the rise of occult gangs in the Free State, where ritual murders and demonic symbols aren’t urban legends ...

Written in the twilight of Shakespeare’s life, The Winter’s Tale is regarded as a problem play with good reason. A complex ...

This is Sorcha Carey's first Folkestone Triennial as curator, but the festival has a firm reputation now as this is its sixth ...

A revelatory study shows how pagan traditions not only survived the spread of Christianity but also made its practices their own ...

A spirit of defiance and a mysterious culture endure on the French island of Corsica, intertwined with the timeless beauty of ...

Lenskart has made something truly spellbinding, a Limited-Edition Collect’r’s Box inspired by the Chamber of Secrets, and a ma ...

These secret prayers, she tells me later, invoke the Virgin Mary — a Christian element absorbed into a pagan tradition to avoid having it ... by a fellow inmate in 2022 and has since become a symbol ...

Ari Aster's sun-dappled psychedelic horror Midsommar plays with not only the brightest of hues, but also the most crushingly ...

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Vladimir Sorokin, however, is alive; he is quite alive, and when I asked him how and why (along with a clutch of other ...