Enchanted: The History of Magic & Witchcraft

Picture masked figures appearing at your door on a dark winter's evening, their faces hidd... more

Haunted dolls are a cornerstone of folklore and popular culture. Our enduring fascination ... more

On June 29, 1987, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the tomb of the late president, Juan Domingo... more

Before microscopes and stethoscopes, before hospitals and modern medicine, there were the ... more

In the shadow of Puritan New England, where scripture, law, and community shaped every asp... more

In 1764, Fray Juan José Toledo, the priest of the mission church in Abiquiú, New Mexico, w... more

In the summer of 1612, a woman named Alice Nutter walked to her death. She was not like th... more

Morgan le Fay, the infamous enchantress of Arthurian legend, has worn many faces across th... more

In seventeenth-century England, astrology hovered at the edges of learned society. That is... more

In the summer of 1836, against a backdrop of economic instability and fervent religious re... more

A bishop, a scholar, and a moral arbitrator, Burchard of Worms was a man of many roles, bu... more

From ancient times to the present, cultures worldwide have celebrated the sun’s return fol... more

Since ancient times Avernus, an ancient volcanic crater in the Campania region of southern... more

If there is one thing every reader of fairy tales can tell you, it’s that you should never... more

In 1584, Reginald Scot, a little-known English gentleman farmer from Kent, published a wor... more

Despite the inscrutability of his writings and the fact that he was only one of a number o... more

In the last decades of the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the A... more

As Europeans embarked on their colonial ventures in the Americas, they also forged new fro... more

Despite his dedication to science and mathematics—or perhaps because of it—Pope Sylvester ... more

When Spanish colonizers and missionaries came to settle in New Mexico, the resulting cultu... more

Some men just can't keep their promises. Of course, when that promise is to his magical wi... more

Part of the broader witch hunts that swept across Europe during the sixteenth and seventee... more

The tradition of Southern Conjure is centuries old, tracing its history back to the forced... more

Folklore from around the world contains the stories of household gods, fairies, sprites, a... more

The experience of falling asleep only to be awakened by terror, realizing you cannot move ... more

The haunting of Ann Haltridge of Knowehead House, Islandmagee, began in September 1710. It... more

In 1575 inquisitors in northern Italy discovered the benandanti, a band of self-professed ... more

Corinne is in Italy for the summer and has brought some of the sounds and stories of the T... more

Over the centuries, stories of the Pythia have been collected in texts devoted to myth, po... more

In an era shaken to its core by dramatic political and social change, a nation wracked by ... more