Altars to the dead lined the basketball court at Kezar Pavilion: One was a shrine to pets, another memorialized fetuses that didn't come to term, and a third, with photographs of the first thousand ...

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 ...

Most of us grew up with images of witches. The good and bad witches in “The Wizard of Oz.” Samantha from “Bewitched.” Evil witches in Disney movies. Humorous characters in “Witches of Eastwick” and ...

Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are ...

Paul Ridlon, who practices a form of modern Paganism, lives in a yurt in Portland. Credit: Joseph Ciembroniewicz / The Maine Monitor This story appears as part of a collaboration to strengthen ...

Friday, June 21 will be the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. And for one religious group it's a time to celebrate the Oak King falling to the Holly King. We take a look at the often ...

The Contemporary Pagan Movement is hard to pin down by design. Paganism is a very big (and often literal) tent and those inside form and un-form groups freely. The Pagan belief in the supremacy of ...