'A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,' a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov. Tretyakov Gallery/Wikimedia Commons The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working ...

The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But women haven’t always been the face of sorcery. Most of Catholic and Protestant Europe embraced the idea of ...

(RNS) — Reading the encyclopedia and watching public television as a kid, Linda Raedisch caught glimpses of “another Christmas” — one filled with ghosts and witches, where elves weren’t friendly ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies. (The Conversation) — The word ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But that hasn’t always ...