THE relationship between witchcraft, political power and personal or societal development has long been debated across many cultures. While today’s younger generation may question whether witchcraft ...

The baloi, abathakathi and amagqwirha are still at it, it seems. Since the fall of apartheid there has been a steady but largely unremarked-on stream of witch killings in rural South Africa. Press ...

(RNS) — In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest “Macbeth” ...

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 ...

In 2018, a prosecution witness narrated before the Masindi High Court how suspicion of witchcraft led to the killing of his parent. Charles Okumu, who stood in the witness dock as the second ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Every year thousands of people globally are wrongly accused of witchcraft, often with fatal consequences yet, says new research, legislation designed to stamp out the barbaric practices is rarely used ...

Wiccan priestesses pray around a fire pit during the Imbolc, one of the eight Sabbat festivals, the most important dates in a witch’s calendar (Getty) Witchcraft “is not based on dogma or a set of ...