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: “When did everyone ...
UB cultural anthropologist Phillips Stevens Jr. says that while magic and witchcraft are both thoroughly researched topics across various academic disciplines, a new effort is needed if we’re to fully ...
Two weeks ago in the run-up to Halloween, I visited Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time since the pandemic began. In renewing my annual Halloween pilgrimage, I was bowled over by what I found in ...
Jodi Jacobson's journey with witchcraft began when she was in first grade. That's when she started using her spiritual connection with nature to attract things into her life, like a good grade on an ...
On a moonlit night in October, Carol Sobczak set up candles, cake, and other supplies on an altar at her Long Island home for a Wiccan ritual. Her students – three women in their late 20s and early ...
Helen A. Berger is a r esident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Wicca, an alternative minority religion whose ...
Helen A. Berger has previously received funding from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and West Chester University. Wicca, an alternative ...