The writer Tara Isabella Burton is one of the most interesting people you could ever hope to meet in New York City. In this essay, she writes about how she threw herself into the occult in a Romantic ...

Tap into the magic all around you with witchcraft. Learn magic spells and you can change your life better. If you have no experience in performing spells, chants, and rituals, maybe a free spell ...

Let us begin with a short but true story. A child comes home from school and sees that the floor is sprinkled all over with rice. "Mama, what happened?" he says. "I am expelling bad energy from the ...

Bernard Hoffman, “Kurt Seligmann and Enrico Donati in a ‘Magic Circle'” (1948), gelatin silver print of “Magic Evening” (Soirée Seligmann) (courtesy Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens ...

Welcome to the season of the witch. Recently, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted a Witches Brew film festival, which included the acclaimed new film “The Witch.” Lately it isn’t uncommon to see ...

Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells Spycraft and magic have always been strange but agreeable bedfellows, and a ...

When Elyse Bernath was 4 years old, she almost died. Her near-death experience was the result of a severe case of the flu, she said. But after Bernath recovered, she said things felt different. By the ...

Look round any bookshop and the section on the occult is likely to be next to, or close by, the section on religion. Counting the books alone (and I confess to have been an avid reader of the Denis ...

The literature at a new Bushwick bookstore is bound to raise your spirits. Phillip English and Joe Petersen opened the occult bookstore, boutique and performance space Catland on a quiet stretch of ...

In the 1960s she would have been celebrated by the counterculture – but a decade earlier, Rosaleen Norton was shunned and mocked The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if ...