With Halloween on its way, there are a lot of casual visitors on Tumblr’s witchcraft, magic and paganism tags. Luckily, there are several pages that can set you on the right track to the real thing.

There’s no Sunday school, and meetings are regularly held at Denny’s restaurants, but for members — and the federal government — Sacred Spiral is very much a church, albeit a Pagan church. High ...

Despite the growing number of covens and magickal circles, there is still truth in the sociologist Émile Durkheim's famous 1912 statement that "there is no Church of magic." This is due partly to the ...

After Halloween when the candy and costumes are put away, Lauren Jakobsson will still identify as a witch and a Pagan. The term Paganism was developed to encompass beliefs that fall outside of the ...

Crowther was one of the last remaining direct initiates of Gerald Gardner, who founded Wicca in the mid-20th century.

SOUTH SALT LAKE -- Members of Utah's pagan community are stepping out of the broom closet, as it were, to dispel myths and misconceptions about witchcraft in the land of Mormonism. They held an open ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." I spent five years immersed in the American pagan community—first at arm’s length, as a journalist; ...

NEW YORK — In a secluded nook of Central Park, 13 witches stood in a circle on a cloudless Saturday, eyes closed, chanting. A makeshift altar on the forest floor bore a lantern, a silver chalice, a ...