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“Witchcraft” offers a deep dive into the many facets of a centuries-old tradition in the Western world, weaving more than 400 classic and contemporary artworks with essays and interviews by what ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Phillips Stevens Jr., PhD, a University at Buffalo cultural anthropologist, says that while magic and witchcraft are both thoroughly researched topics across various academic ...

Connecticut lawmakers have pardoned the women and men who were accused, convicted and executed for witchcraft in the 1600s. House Joint Resolution 34, which was adopted by the state Senate Thursday in ...

What does it mean to be a modern-day “good witch” in pop culture? Must you live a “normal,” albeit eccentric life? Bring down evil entities in your spare time? Descend from persecuted witches—or those ...

The last proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts ended in 1693. But 331 years later, religious witch hunts remain a common — if not well-publicized — occurrence in countries around the ...

Two men are on trial in Zambia on charges of practicing witchcraft and possessing charms intended to harm the country's president, in a case that has become a source of fascination in the southern ...

Jennifer Farrell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

IN the issue of NATURE for April 11, p. 113, is an erratum which corrects a statement made in NATURE for April 4, p. 82, regarding Pope Innocent VII. and witchcraft. It is stated that Pope Innocent ...

Indian police talk to villagers after five women accused of practicing witchcraft were killed in Kanjia village in India's eastern Jharkhand state on Aug. 8, 2015 Earlier this month, a group of local ...