witchcraft
Can witches and consumer culture coexist?
By Tara Isabella Burton — June 4, 2019
(RNS) — As long as millennials adapt rituals and spells as a force for change, companies will hawk those rituals and spells to preserve the status quo.
Getting in on — and tossed out of — the Satanist Temple joke
By Tara Isabella Burton — May 24, 2019
(RNS) — As more and more millennials identify with spiritual or philosophical movements outside the bounds of 'traditional' religions, how will these groups police their ideology while remaining inclusive?
In Mexico, modern witches celebrate ancient rites of spring
By Irving Cabrera Torres — March 27, 2019
CATEMACO, Mexico (RNS) — Sorcerers, witches, healers and spiritual guides appeared the first Friday of March as they have for almost 50 years in this small town in southern Mexico.
Witchcraft becomes a political stance — and a booming business
By Tara Isabella Burton — February 14, 2019
(RNS) — Once a fringe spiritual practice, witchcraft has become a key, and increasingly popular, component of feminist political resistance.
Vigilante killings in Tanzania spur a hunt for witch-hunters
By Tonny Onyulo — August 9, 2018
(RNS) — The dark side of the country's widespread belief in witchcraft is that people are quick to blame supposed conjurers — mostly older women —for their misfortunes.
Is Tumblr witchcraft feminism – or cultural appropriation?
By Aysha Khan — October 27, 2017
(RNS) — A perfect storm of Instagram-era online branding combined with leftist political posturing has made witchcraft the latest victim of cultural appropriation.
Beyond Halloween: Witches, devils, trials and executions
By Thomas Reese — October 24, 2017
(RNS) — As Halloween approaches, the Rev. David Collins, a Jesuit professor of history at Georgetown University, takes us back to a time in European history when witches were persecuted and executed by society.
Witchcraft concerns Uganda’s Anglican archbishop
By Lauren Markoe — June 24, 2016
(RNS) Clergy worry about prominent and ordinary Christians who seek help from witch doctors and at ancestral shrines.
The ‘Splainer: Why is the Halloween witch mean and green?
By Kimberly Winston — October 27, 2015
(RNS) The first witches were healers, herbalists, midwives and wise women. How did our image of the Halloween witch evolve, and why? Let us ‘Splain ...
Tanzania bans witch doctors after scores of albino people are killed in ritual slaughter
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 15, 2015
(RNS) The witch doctors reportedly fueled the killings by inducing local people to believe “magic potions” made from body parts brought good luck and wealth.
Activists call on British government to deport African exorcist
By Trevor Grundy — April 16, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Helen Ukpabio specializes in “liberating” captives in "deliverance sessions" and holds house meetings in London with people who believe she has power to expel demons.
Indonesian president says he believes in witchcraft
By Vishal Arora — January 21, 2014
(RNS) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may be the first Indonesian president to acknowledge publicly he believes in witchcraft. In a recently published memoir, he describes a “horror movie” style encounter with black magic at his residence.
Descendants want justice for Connecticut witches
By Ann Marie Somma — October 1, 2012
HARTFORD, Conn. (RNS) Connecticut was executing suspected witches some 40 years before Salem, Mass. Scores of others were put on trial until witchcraft was no longer listed as a capital crime in 1715. But unlike other states, Connecticut has yet to acknowledge those sent to the gallows. And descendants are trying to change that. By Ann Marie Somma.
Scotland Yard says witchcraft abuse a hidden crime
By Tracy Gordon — March 7, 2012
LONDON (RNS) British police have disclosed that they have investigated more than 80 witchcraft-based child abuse cases in the last decade and warned that the practice is "far more prevalent" than previously believed. By Al Webb.
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