(The Conversation) — Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: ...
Raised a Catholic, San Antonian Elizabeth Gutierrez began to question the church around age 14. She began to explore ideas of occult thought, and in 1982, Gutierrez had what she calls “an intense ...
(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” ...
Despite the growing number of covens and magickal circles, there is still truth in the sociologist Émile Durkheim's famous 1912 statement that "there is no Church of magic." This is due partly to the ...
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