Needless to say, sleep would not come quickly!” Readers share their favorite books to read during the Halloween season.

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“This is a book about borders. It’s a book about physical borders, and it’s also a book about metaphysical borders,” ...

New research shows that the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg, helped spread conspiracies that fueled the Salem ...

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In her Newberry Library course, Kay Daly examines the depiction of witches onstage, from the 17th century to the present.

As the month of October continues on, more and more are celebrating the spooky season. From buying costumes to going to parties, another way that people celebrate is by visiting ...

Capitalizing on promises of power and control, witchcraft and occultist practices have become America’s latest wellness ...

I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what ...

“Your average witch is just somebody who lives next to you and has this spiritual practice you don’t know about,” Deborah ...

That text was spread throughout the Western world thanks to the newly invented printing press.