Bernard Hoffman, “Kurt Seligmann and Enrico Donati in a ‘Magic Circle'” (1948), gelatin silver print of “Magic Evening” (Soirée Seligmann) (courtesy Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens ...

There’s no sorting hat, wands or flying broomsticks, but magical mysteries still await. A university in the United Kingdom will be offering the country’s first ever postgraduate degree in magic and ...

As occult practices are on the rise, contemporary theologians become increasingly interested in psychology, with many Christian authors wrestling with the question of how demons can influence mental ...

In the 1960s she would have been celebrated by the counterculture – but a decade earlier, Rosaleen Norton was shunned and mocked The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if ...

Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells Spycraft and magic have always been strange but agreeable bedfellows, and a ...

Welcome to the season of the witch. Recently, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosted a Witches Brew film festival, which included the acclaimed new film “The Witch.” Lately it isn’t uncommon to see ...

The University of Exeter will offer a master's degree in magic and occult science. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Exeter Prof. Sajjad Rizvi about the new program. Magic will soon fill classrooms at a school ...

Look round any bookshop and the section on the occult is likely to be next to, or close by, the section on religion. Counting the books alone (and I confess to have been an avid reader of the Denis ...

There is this persistent stereotype that the occult attracts mostly broken people and those susceptible to outside influences ...