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Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set ...

In a global culture that clings rigidly to the gender binary, there’s something undeniably magical about trans identity. Embracing a trans identity is—yes, I’m sorry about the pun—transformative.

(RNS) — In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest “Macbeth” ...

Most perfume ads suggest that the right scent can make you sexy, alluring and successful. A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek ...

Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview in the Age of LOLtron! As you surely recall, the pathetic human known as ...

Inside the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in London are a variety of occult objects like waxen curse poppets, fortune telling teacups, and witch mirrors. They come from the Museum's collection in ...

Ask any witch who casts spells and you will be told that not only is magic genuine, but it's inside of everyone who wants to try witchcraft. Everyone has felt magic in their life. Magic is the energy ...

There are any number of reasons to be watching Agatha All Along. Maybe you’re here for Kathryn Hahn Hahn-ing around, or to see Aubrey Plaza goth it up, or because you’d follow Patti Lupone to hell and ...

Recently a Canadian woman was charged with pretending to practice witchcraft under a law on the verge of disappearing from the Canadian Criminal Code. She had attempted to extort considerable sums of ...