“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 ...

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 ...

“For some, ‘witch’ is a patriarchal slur that they reclaim for resistance,” she said. “For others, it’s an identity tied to essential feminine magic, or a deeply queer figure who ...

the Act made it a crime to pretend to perform any kind of witchcraft or fortune telling. Instead of being real magic, witchcraft was now seen as a type of fraud.