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 ...

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 ...

As occult practices are on the rise, contemporary theologians become increasingly interested in psychology, with many Christian authors wrestling with the question of how demons can influence mental ...

The University of Exeter will offer a master's degree in magic and occult science. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Exeter Prof. Sajjad Rizvi about the new program. Magic will soon fill classrooms at a school ...

Magic, sorcery, conjuring and divination involve various strange and ancient practices and terms that can be quite confusing. All of these things fall under the heading of the much larger — and often ...

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 ...

One eve of Witchfest event, radicals say they believe magic and occult are natural extensions of feminism and eco activism The south London borough of Croydon, often derided as the capital’s most ...

Occult-scientific manuals in early Persian culture explored humanity’s oldest political ambition: world domination through ...