In a welcoming and meditative spell book for budding witches, Kusby asserts that readers need not “possess the power to make objects fly or to read minds” to engage with witchcraft. Instead, the ways ...

Do you love libraries? Have a penchant for casting spells? Particularly well versed in 17th century archaic Latin and English? Well the Chicago Newberry Library might have the perfect job for you!

Calling all witches and warlocks … or library enthusiasts. Chicago’s Newberry Library is crowdsourcing translations for three 17th-century manuscripts of spells, charms and magic. Handwritten in ...

This guide explores how to create a realistic and eerie witch’s spell book using only scrap and recycled materials. Perfect for Halloween, cosplay, or set design, the tutorial blends creativity with ...

When you imagine a witch, what comes to mind? If you’re like most people, you probably picture a green-faced hag, dressed in black, who casts spells over a bubbling cauldron. It’s an image that’s ...

Hopelessly Teavoted' author Audrey Goldberg Ruoff recommends her favorite witchy books with puntacular titles, just in time ...

In William Perkins' 1608 A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, he opens with a list of the reasons such a treatise is necessary, beginning with one that now reads as far more astute that he ...

Witch parties, witch protests and a bevy of new books: We have reached peak witch. By Jessica Bennett Fifty-one years ago, a group of protesters calling themselves W.I.T.C.H. staged a Halloween “hex” ...