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 ...

More Americans are Wiccan, and will celebrate Samhain not Halloween Saturday. Oct. 30, 2009— -- Patti Wigington is a soccer mom. She is the vice president of her local PTA. And she's a witch.

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 ...

For tips on protecting your house with Voodoo or spicing up your cooking with magic, look no further than the most recent issue of Witches & Pagans magazine. It's a niche publication, to be sure. But ...

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 ...