I don’t live for the weekend, but I’m glad it’s here. First up: Old grammar forms live on in American English: “Take the past participle of get, which in Britain is got and in America gotten. To some ...

Two weeks ago in the run-up to Halloween, I visited Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time since the pandemic began. In renewing my annual Halloween pilgrimage, I was bowled over by what I found in ...

When most people think of witchcraft, they base it off of how witches are portrayed in the media or what it means to be a Wiccan. There is more to being a witch than just doing spells and reading ...

It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

Karen Silva and Sharon L’Heureux, both of Meriden, are proud to count themselves among the nation’s witches. The women are both priestesses of Wicca, a federally recognized neo-Pagan religion — and ...

LAS CRUCES – Witches and covens and ritual are all a part of a Wiccan society. So are humanity, acceptance and conservationism. The latter are the foundations of the religion that many mistake for a ...

Helen A. Berger is a r esident Scholar at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center. This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Wicca, an alternative minority religion whose ...