Witchcraft & Pagan News - Torrential rains in Florence threatened to damage a painting of the god Bacchus by the Baroque master Caravaggio when a skylight leaked in the Uffizi gallery. | Arts & Cultur...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Witchy fashion, Ouija boards, protection magic, a Pagan scholars’ network, Star’s Tarot of the Week, plenty of community happenings, and...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Researchers deliberately burned a modern papyrus scroll to help recover words lost nearly 2,000 years ago. Their experiment suggests traces of lead in ancient ink could revea...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - More Witches are watching Practical Magic 2 and reviewing it. Star Bustamonte and Stacy Psaros find Hollywood magic, familiar tropes, family curses, sympathetic Witches, and ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - More than 56 million years ago, something took wing. Now, combining ancient fossils with genomes from living species, researchers are rewriting the bat family tree, and traci...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Beatrix Kondo reviews the first book in the Witches of Olderea series by Ireen Chau. "Think Jane Austen crashing a Barbie movie, if Barbie could accidentally hex a prince." |...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Siobhan Ball welcomes our readers to soup season with a look into the history of sage's association with healing and other forms of magic, along with a recipe for white bean ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Drawing upon the models presented by the Norse gods Tyr and Thor, Karl E.H. Seigfried argues for the Heathen ethic of taking action against injustice despite personal costs. ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Sadly, some pearls were harmed in the preparation of an article. But things get better! Tower Grove Pride in St. Louis focuses on magick...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - An 11th-century serpent pendant discovered in northwestern Russia pairs a Christian warrior saint with a snake-haired figure rooted in the Medusa tradition, revealing the com...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "Support Pagan owned, or values-aligned, small businesses" writes ATC Archpriest Dusty Dionne as they discuss the aligning spending and donations with Pagan values to strengt...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - At the September equinox, the Wheel turns once again. Selena Fox, Belladonna LaVeau, Lilith Wolf, Jim Sayers, Macha NightMare, and Manny Tejeda y Moreno share reflections on ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "I would warn you that there will be spoilers," writes Meg Elison in her review of the new film Practical Magic 2, "but there doesn’t seem to be much point as the sequel rete...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Alan U. Dalul reviews the new oracle deck by Balázs Tátrai and Lilla Bölecz from Watkins Publishing, following up on their previous work, The Book of Forgotten Witches. | Art...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "I have been teaching Witchcraft professionally for 35 years," writes Storm Faerywolf. "In addition to selling my books and my art, this is how I make my living. I don’t have...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Equinox Blessings!   Pretty Much Everywhere on this Planet (You know, the one there's no substitute for) —  Meteorological autumn began on September 1, | News, Pagan Communit...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this month’s What the Hounds?: Baalshit, exorcism, and UFO demons. We just... whatever. | News, Paganism, U.S., What the Hounds, Witchcraft, World

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Lehigh Valley Pagan Pride Day continued despite repeated disruptions by Christian protesters, who reportedly confronted adults and children before security intervened and pol...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Deep inside Spain’s Cova Dones, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an organized Roman-era cult involving women, ritual offerings, and a mysterious goddess whose worshi...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "While it’s true that we should stay well away from whoever tries to tell us who is a Witch and who is not," writes Alan U. Dalul, "we can and should stay close to those who ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Lyonel Perabo recounts his visit to the 2026 Midgardsblot festival in Borre, Norway, featuring bands like Venom, Wolves in the Throne Room, Taake, and the Heilung spin-off So...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: We begin by remembering the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. And there’s more. Much more. Got a stick? Go get it, because there’s m...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Federal actions targeting wolf protections and roadless national forests could reshape U.S. conservation policy, raising a larger question about the relationship between prot...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a child’s best interests can guide religious custody disputes, rejecting strict scrutiny and prompting a planned U.S. Supreme ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Religious liberty protects Christians and Pagans alike, but where does religious expression end and intrusion begin? From Salem to Burning Man, Rev. Davron Michaels argues th...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Lyonel Perabo on the legacy of Harald V, King of Norway, who passed away on August 28th. | Europe, News, Paganism, Perspectives, Politics

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "As a nation," writes Clio Ajana, "the bicentennial was the American attempt to enjoy a blissful harmonic period as emphasized in music with singles and albums that  praised ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "Historically, Witchcraft, both the acts and accusations, came down to the villainy of action," writes Lauren Parker. "It mirrors the persecution of the working class and org...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - New research from a Roman villa in Spain suggests a rare serpent-decorated vessel may offer early evidence of the mystery cult of Sabazios and reveal how ancient religious tr...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - California lawmakers approved legislation expanding protections for Native American religious practices and sacred sites on state lands, while provisions requiring tribal con...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Two separate religious-freedom disputes in Tennessee—one involving religious practice and eligibility to foster and the other involving Ten Commandments displays in public sc...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "Film audiences have spent all summer describing Obsession a story about the dangers of witchcraft," writes Beatrix Kondo. "Nothing in it, however, has anything to do with so...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Karl E.H. Seigfried travels through American landscape and American history, and considers how Heathen values reflect and intersect with both. | Arts & Culture, Culture, Livi...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Belanger reflects on public mourning, the shrines we build, and what Pagans may understand about honoring a life that touched millions and left “a palpable impact upon the st...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Fall 2026 is shaping up as a season of the witch on screen, Ardantane offers a course in Pagan leadership, Star’s Tarot of the Week, and...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Archaeologists investigating a 6,500-year-old sanctuary in the Czech Republic have identified entrances aligned with solar and lunar cycles, revealing a monumental ritual lan...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - A new study reports high rates of likely AI-generated books in religious publishing, with Witchcraft among the most affected categories, amplifying concerns from Pagan authos...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - A federal settlement protecting Christian employers and a Southern Baptist appeal to the Justice Department raise a broader question: Will the government’s expanding religiou...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - "Children make up rituals," writes Meg Elison in this retrospective on Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s novel. "They make up stories. Like the kids in The Egypt Game, they make up rel...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Storm Faerywolf offers recommendations on a number of recently published, reissued, and forthcoming books, including titles by Jason Mankey, Janet Farrar, Chris Allaun, Jake ...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - TWH welcomes back Alan U. Dalul, who describes how being kept in limbo for nearly a year waiting for his green card, unable to work, taught him new truths about being a Witch...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: the Covenant of the Goddess addresses AI and sacred practice, the community mourns Priestess Miriam Chamani and philosopher Brendan Myer...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - From hundreds of mice deposited at an ancient sanctuary on Crete to Bronze Age offerings in a Czech wetland and a ceremonial landscape surrounding an English spring, this wee...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - The Marine Corps has released an administrative message advising personnel of the Pentagon’s revised religious affiliation codes, requiring Marines to update their records by...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - As the Religious Liberty Commission reviews public comments, The Pagan Solidarity Alliance examines Pagan representation in the federal record and argues that meaningful reli...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Drawing on decades of experience in Pagan and occult communities, Sef Salem reflects on the enduring importance of in-person gatherings, arguing that face-to-face connections...

Witchcraft & Pagan News - A Greek priestess’ thoughts on increasing wildfires, and how you can witness and motivate change for the better. | Environment, Letters, Opinion, Perspectives, The Wild Hunt

Witchcraft & Pagan News - In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Io Diana Lucifera! Mortellus shares their experience running for local office, National Geographic explores the revival of Braucherei, S...