CHICAGO — The witch has haunted the imagination for generations. It’s unclear where the term “witch,” or their rituals began, but it is mentioned in the Bible, in a passage 2,800 years ago. Despite ...

Police say Angela Sanford stabbed man with Wiccan dagger. March 24, 2010— -- A woman who claims she was going to perform a Wiccan celebration of spring is accused of using a ritualistic dagger to ...

The first-ever Memorial Day dedication of grave markers with the Wiccan pentacle on them was planned at a pagan cemetery after more than a decade of fighting the federal government for approval of the ...

(RNS) — The Great Rite, a Wiccan ritual celebrating the creative union of the masculine and feminine, commonly occurs after a priest and a priestess call in the God and the Goddess, the Earth-based ...

LAKELAND -- At 2:04 a.m. Dec. 22, the Earth was at its farthest point from the sun, the winter solstice. It was nothing more than an astronomical and meteorological footnote for most people -- the ...

As a round white moon rose over the ocean Saturday at dusk and the day's hot sun set in the west, most beachgoers packed up to go home. But on the beach at the foot of Atlantic Boulevard in Atlantic ...

The rain Saturday night didn’t dampen the First Church of Wicca’s Samhain ceremony, actually it helped fuel their energy, Rev. Dr. Kendra Vaughan Hovey, Elder High Priestess said. Hovey said they ...

Here's how you can really celebrate the Halloween (or Samhain) holiday this year.

Raised a Catholic, San Antonian Elizabeth Gutierrez began to question the church around age 14. She began to explore ideas of occult thought, and in 1982, Gutierrez had what she calls “an intense ...

(The Conversation) — Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: ...

A woman accidentally stabbed herself in the foot with a 3-foot-long sword while performing a Wiccan good luck ritual at a cemetery in central Indiana. Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her ...