Each year in Sweden and Finland, young children continue a centuries-old tradition marking the night that witches celebrated Sabbath with the devil before Jesus’s resurrection. Unlike those who ...

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So get out your sacred candles, your glass crystals, spellbooks to recite incantations, and most of all, your wands and say “Accio Witch Movies ... Their plight, with haunting Basque legends and the ...

Piñata Books loads up on tissues for Cry by Alisa Lynn Valdés, in which 16-year-old goth filmmaker Grace Martínez is struck by lightning and suddenly able to communicate with ghosts, including ...

The meeting at Malkin Tower became a witches’ sabbath and the king was told that ... whereby you carried a burning candle up the hill and if the flame remained lit, the witches would leave ...

As we light the Sabbath candles, we invite the Shechina ... In The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba, seeks to destroy Dorothy. But her dread of water, is her downfall.

And Hanukkah reminds me of the soul-lifting power of a simple burning candle, intrinsic to so many religious rituals and an anodyne for keeping grounded. I used to light Sabbath candles at sundown ...

Historian Mikki Brock joins WIRED to answer the internet's bubbling cauldron of questions about witches, witchcraft, and witch hunting through the ages. Can men be witches or only women?

Every witch and her dog (or should that be little ... but it ain’t Halloween — it’s actually the date of another Sabbat (a witchy word for celebration or sacred day), known as Beltane ...

Witches have been part of cinema for almost ... Today, Bell, Book and Candle is often viewed as a not-so-subtle allegory for being gay in midcentury America. It’s based on a 1950 play of the ...