What is Witchcraft? Witchcraft involves the use of magical skills, spells, and powers. It is an ancient practice that persists in the modern world.

From ancient Greece through Puritan New England, witches functioned as easy targets for cultural anxieties about gender, power and mortality. Ancient witches: gender and power. While modern witchcraft ...

Three is a magic number. From curses to charms to incantations and evocations, speaking thrice gives power — today, and in the ancient past. As our number series continues, we enter the powerful ...

The north wall of an ancient Egyptian burial chamber decorated with spells protecting against snake bites Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague Indiana Jones famously fears ...