“Witches are magic practitioners ... Stevens twitching her nose and making her next-door neighbor disappear. In real life, however, witchcraft is much more focused on rituals, ceremonies ...

More than 200 people were accused of practicing "Devil's magic," and 20 were condemned to execution. Yes, witches are real, and they are no different than anyone else. "Witches are your neighbors ...

Witchcraft has long been dismissed as superstition or spectacle — but a new interdisciplinary field reframes it as feminist resistance. In The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2025), ...

Those accused of witchcraft—including those who genuinely believed themselves to be practicing magic, a minority of those accused—espoused beliefs that derived directly from medieval Christendom.

While real-life witches are very different from ... charms and witchy movies like “Hocus Pocus” and “Practical Magic.” Even witch names have a mysterious aura all their own (think: Tabitha ...

Move over zombie studies – two professors have created a new academic field called “feminist witch studies.” University of ...

It was accepted that God was real and could directly affect their ... fooled by the Devil into believing they could perform magic. Witchcraft had now been linked directly to evil and the Devil ...

Maebashi Witches is poised to redefine the magical girl genre with its upcoming anime set in rural Japan. The story centers on four teenage girls burdened with protecting their world, delving into ...