A writer spent a year doing witchcraft to find out In her new book, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft, Diana Helmuth explores witchcraft as a religion and ...

My research originally focused on historical witchcraft, with my dissertation on the witch trials of the early modern period in England. In 1986, after years of research, I received a call from the ...

The witch aesthetic was more important than spiritual practice. That was 2006. “It was a crash course,” Galentine said, “on getting exposed to people, rather than having a deliberate goal.” ...

Witchcraft is open to interpretation depending on the practitioner or scholar. It dates back to the 10th century, but there are modern practitioners.

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Witchcraft, which includes Wicca, paganism, ... (Most modern pagan worship, of which Wicca is one type, draws on pre-Christian traditions in revering nature.) By 2050, ...

While modern witchcraft is inclusive of many different genders and identities, witches in ancient myth and literature were almost exclusively women. Their stories were in part about navigating gender ...

The Modern Witchcraft Spell Book goes in-depth on spells, herbs, crystals, and other ingredients that go with and can enhance each type of spell, and general rules of practice.