In the 21st century, you’re far more likely to encounter a TV witch who’s smart and stylish, and whose beauty is part of her ...

HAITI, the Black Republic, was one of the most interesting and instructive of the many social experiments of the nineteenth century. In its early days it was favoured by the liberal and ...

In places like Iceland and Wales, there were very few witchcraft trials at all. It seems that local beliefs about magic and witchcraft, alongside the attitudes of clergymen and judges, may be the ...

(Vodou) seems dark because people don’t understand it. But at some point, all religions were dark until someone said that ...

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Is that magic? What, if anything, differentiates all this from Agatha and her coven’s witchcraft? Well, I mean, it doesn’t need to be explained. Magic, definitionally, doesn’t have to make ...

Geschiere, Peter 1998. Sorcellerie et Modernité. Les enjeux des nouveaux procès de sorcellerie au cameroun approches anthropologiques et historiques. Annales ...

You know, standard witch stuff. But the depiction of witches really isn’t quite so simple as all that. For one thing, they’re not always malevolent forces in cinema. Nor are they all ancient ...

Clearly, Agatha thinks so. As with any belief system or symbols of those beliefs, elements of magic and witchcraft can vary based on tradition. The three highlighted here may have deeper meanings ...