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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magic, sorcery, conjuring and divination involve various strange and ancient practices and terms that can be quite confusing. All of these things fall under the heading of the much larger — and often ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Elyse Bernath was 4 years old, she almost died. Her near-death experience was the result of a severe case of the flu, she said. But after Bernath recovered, she said things felt different. By the ...