José Ortiz-Pagán is a Puerto Rican visual artist based in Philadelphia. His work focuses on harnessing indigenous spiritual ...

In the summer of 2020, an international team led by a University of Arizona archaeologist reported the discovery of the ...

Witchcraft still fascinates and repels. Hundreds of years after England’s witch trials in the Puritan mid-17th century, misconceptions and mistrust linger.

Carved pumpkins are one of the long-standing traditions of Halloween. Carving these hollowed-out gourds has been an American tradition since the 1800s but ...

The word "Halloween" comes from the combination of "All Hallows", which translates as "night of the saints", and "evening", ...

Halloween traces its origins back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire known as Samhain. Also included are the historical ...

Dr Rebecca Beattie loves Hallowe’en – or Samhain, as she calls it – but for altogether more spiritually uplifting reasons ...

Although not widespread, this sort of nature-based spiritual belief finds fertile ground in the Pacific Northwest. In the ...

Your medicine cabinet likely doesn't contain eye of newt or tongue of dog. But witch potion ingredients really do have a part ...

A little bit of magic is landing in Mountsorrel this weekend as Witch Festival 2025 takes over the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre for a full day of spirituality, connection and community.

I think that the witch crawl is helping us realize that more community exists than we thought,” said Krista Hudson-Melone.

The smoke-belching chimneys of Oldham's post-Industrial Revolution landscape are a fitting description of William Blake's 'dark satanic mills'. A vivid phrase from his famous poem, later incorporated ...