Each year in Sweden and Finland, young children continue a centuries-old tradition marking the night that witches celebrated Sabbath with the devil before Jesus’s resurrection. Unlike those who ...

Toil and TroubleAn engraving reproduces Henry Fuseli’s 1783 painting of the witches from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. First performed in 1606, the play was a compliment to the newly crowned ...

While historical witch hunts targeted vulnerable individuals, modern witches embrace nature-based religions and seek personal empowerment. However, experts caution against romanticizing the past ...

Mayfair Witches, based on Anne Rice’s novel trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches, returned with its second season on January 5, 2025, on AMC+. In this supernatural thriller, Thora Birch finally ...

Mayfair Witches is a supernatural horror drama series adapted from Anne Rice's novel trilogy, Lives of the Mayfair Witches. The first episode of the second season premiered on January 5 ...

The director Elizabeth Sankey’s experience with postpartum depression anchors this documentary about the pop-cultural representation of witches. By Beatrice Loayza When you purchase a ticket for ...

The conclusion of Agatha All Along‘s eighth episode revealed that the whole Witches’ Road that was featured on the show was actually created by Billy, though he didn’t know he did it ...

“For most people in everyday life, that’s a sign of madness,” he said. But Green is a witch, and communing with the world around him is at the heart of his craft. He asks questions of the ...

In the seventh episode of Agatha All Along, we finally reach a moment we knew was coming from all the teasers and trailers—our Westview coven dressed up as famous pop culture witches.

Witches have been part of cinema for almost as long as there’s been cinema. In 1898—just two years after the first movie screening in America—J. Stuart Blackton’s 1898 short film The ...

The shapes that witches take on TV are similar to the ones they take in pop culture more broadly. There’s the traditional “ugly” witch embodied in children’s characters like H.R. Pufnstuf ...

Around Halloween, hundreds of revelers dress up as witches and warlocks and hit the water. Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Carving jack-o’-lanterns, watching scary movies ...