Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...

IT is hard to imagine a more authoritative history of the long generations of English witches and their sad New England sisters, or a scholar of more equitable temper, patience, and knowledge, than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houston Museum of Natural Science's Herzstein Foucault Pendulum has stopped after decades, and museum visitors are wondering why.

The pendulum at the museum is attached to a 61-foot-long cable. It typically swings as the Earth rotates, knocking down pegs, until it suddenly stopped this month. The Houston Museum of Natural ...

As a high priestess of Wicca, a branch of modern paganism founded in England, she promoted an image of witches as early feminists who were benevolent and spiritual. Patricia Crowther in an undated ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – From curanderos to hechiceros and brujos, New Mexico has a rich cultural past that has often led to rumors of spellcasters. On this episode of New Mexico Strange, KRQE News 13 Host ...

Six people accused of witchcraft were killed, burned alive, stoned or beaten by a militia in Burundi, a local official told AFP on Wednesday. The official and witnesses, who all asked for anonymity, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus has joined Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor in the horror movie Pendulum, which is now underway in New Mexico. Darren Aronofsky is producing for Protozoa and Black Swan ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to criminalize ...

Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set ...

Fans of novelist Grady Hendrix know him for the campy (in the best way), even whimsical vibes he brings to the horror genre. In books like "Horrorstör," my personal favorite of his works, you get ...

Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global supply chains. More recently, the “TikTok-ification” of retail has companies like Shein and Temu ...