While Ravenclaw is under-appreciated in the Harry Potter franchise, this house has a fascinating background and history that ...

Eating glass. Fire walking. Sword swallowing. These acts that shock and delight have roots in the real and mythical practices ...

"Witchcraft for Wayward Girls" is, in its most basic form, about unwed teenage mothers who are sent away to a "home" in ...

Perhaps Ukraine would hold the answers. With so many wounded – tens of thousands of amputees, people suffering from ...

Actor Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in all eight Harry Potter films, received an eye-watering salary despite having a ...

After capturing its first-ever Section II Class C title and advancing past the state quarterfinals, Stillwater sets its ...

Arkansas author Charles Portis published five widely acclaimed novels, including the 1968 classic western "True Grit." Now, ...

From the Pendle Witches to Samlesbury Hall, here are some of the areas in Lancashire that locals associate with witchcraft.

Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a ...

The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or ...

A new Scottish tartan has been designed to honor the thousands of individuals — mostly women — who were executed between 1563 and 1736 under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act. The Witches of Scotland tartan ...

The persecution of women branded witches is brought to life in a haunting ... “I think there are huge parallels between the history of the struggle for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy ...