witchcraft
'Sabat' Is the Magazine For the Modern Witch
"Witchcraft is very much about finding this energy within yourself and using it in some kind of way that's constructive for your own life."
Revisiting 'The Craft', the Movie That Realised the Monstrous Power of Teen Girls
On its 20th anniversary, we look back at the 1996 cult classic which helped make witchcraft mainstream and inundated covens with curious teenage girls.
How Director Robert Eggers Made ‘The Witch’ into a Genuinely Creepy Feminist Fable
We spoke with the award-winning director about his gloriously scary new movie set in 1630s Puritan New England.
'The Witch' Is a Kick in the Balls of Patriarchy
The eagerly awaited, terrifying movie about Puritans and the occult is also a story about empowerment.
Why Do Teens Love Witchcraft So Much?
An interview with sociologist Helen A. Berger about paganism, how young people get into spells, and coming out of the "broom closet."
We Asked an Expert on Ritual Murders About the Triple Homicide in the Florida Panhandle
"I've worked on cases in Ohio, and Florida, and New York," she told us. "They're international, and not specific to either rural places or cities. They can happen everywhere."
A Florida Sheriff Is Investigating a 'Witchcraft'-Related Triple Murder
Local law enforcement think the brutal killing of a woman and her two grown children last week may have been part of a strange ritual.
Florence Welch Started a Witch Coven and Nobody Knew About It
On the heels of her Glastonbury announcement, the singer talks magic and her "psychic cat."
Get an Espresso and an Exorcism at Bangkok's Premiere Witchcraft Cafe
Created by Wine Kongsorn and Nat Maitreemit to give the Thai Wiccan community a place to gather, Ace of Cups features spells, rituals, and cakes that match your astrological sign.
LARPers Have Created a Real Hogwarts School in Poland
A video shot last month near Czocha, Poland, shows about 190 pointy-hatted Potterites commandeering a castle for the world's largest J. K. Rowling–themed live-action role-playing adventure.
I Had the Leader of ISIS Cursed by a Hong Kong Sorceress and It Almost Worked
"Villain hitting" is a uniquely Hong Kong combination of political defiance and local superstition.
Meet The Wizard Behind the World's Only Real-Life Hogwarts
"Without pointy hats, we’re just old men with beards," says Oberon Zell-Ravenheart.