I don’t live for the weekend, but I’m glad it’s here. First up: Old grammar forms live on in American English: “Take the past participle of get, which in Britain is got and in America gotten. To some ...

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Gerald Gardner founded Wicca in the 1960s, though many claim the idea was originally thought up with assistance by Aleister Crowley. Regardless, the faith has become one of the most prominent neopagan ...

It’s November 1964. In another time she is a beat, a flapper, a suffragette, an Amazon, an Ethical Slut. She wears caftans, loads of silver rings, a thunderbird necklace made from abalone. She grows ...

Two weeks ago in the run-up to Halloween, I visited Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time since the pandemic began. In renewing my annual Halloween pilgrimage, I was bowled over by what I found in ...

Walpurgis Night, a tradition celebrated on 30 April in northern Europe and Scandinavia, sees people light bonfires and sing along to Celtic folk music in order to ward off evil spirits and witches ...

The number of self identified witches in America has soared in recent years to 1.5 million. A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 0.4 per cent of Americans, between 1 and 1.5 million - ...