From the bloodthirsty Chedipe to the enigmatic Baba Yaga, explore how ancient witch legends reveal deep-seated fears and ...

“Had the judge found in favor about the so-called subliminal messages having the power to physically manifest ... over the game’s sorcery and occult elements. That hysteria reached new levels ...

Once a beloved game that bridged the living and the dead, the Ouija board’s reputation has changed dramatically, from ...

These warriors customarily carved the runic symbol for Tyr, the god of war, onto their shields. They would then charge fearlessly into battle, in the belief that nothing could overcome the power ...

Experts in channeling, clairvoyance and the occult break down the black cat's ... Black cats and cats in general had spiritual power in certain traditions (especially for ancient Egyptians and ...

“The Devil is the best known symbol of radical evil,” begins ... Any student of the occult understands the power of ...

Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.

As their emblem, the sign of the new order, they chose the writhing seven-headed cobra, the naga, hoary symbol of the serpent god of occult myth ... the distribution of power; but they had ...

The first, on the period 1890 to 1933, looks at the esoteric philosophies and occult movements that influenced both the leaders of the Nazi movement and ordinary Germans who became its adherents. The ...

Many Irish people, particularly the young (as Joyce has testified), were haunted by the harp-like fluidity of these songs, and imaginatively stirred by the traditional symbols, the heroic Druid ...

In his wide-ranging new book, Francis Young explores the role of occult traditions in the history of the island of Great Britain: Merlin's realm. He argues that while the great magus and artificer ...