If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, riding broomsticks and wickedly cackling over cauldrons. Unsurprisingly, ...

On the eve of the release of the first “Harry Potter” movie, the Discovery Channel takes a stab tonight at explaining the real-life origins of fictional wizardry such as that practiced by Merlin, Oz ...

NEW YORK – Witches are big draws at the box office, on TV — and apparently on college campuses. While Harry Potter wards off calamity with a flick of his wand, hundreds of students nationwide are ...

A lot has changed in the 40 years since the Satanic Panic first gripped the United States: no longer feared or sidelined, witchcraft has become one of the nation’s fastest-growing spiritual practices.

Remember that phase you went through somewhere between the ages of thirteen and fifteen when you decided you were "Wiccan," made your parents buy you a Book of Shadows for Christmas (FYI, real Wiccans ...