"Powwowing is about the protective arts; it's about healing," says Noerpel. "There's this book that was created by John George Honan back in 1820, and in it has all these spells, if you will, these ...

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

Read the story here and listen to the podcast narration here. Fear of hexes, curses, and a belief in old folk magic led to ...

Our depictions of witches have gotten considerably more sophisticated in the century-plus since then. Witches were the ...

Budapest has an obscure, 2,000-year-old link to Halloween, which it celebrates annually amid archaeological remains connected to magicians, death hexes, and naked cult rituals ... whose residents used ...

However, The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling felt like a book that everyone was talking about. Maybe it was the adorable cover or the ...

Forget history. Forget all the jinxes and curses and hexes that fans invent to make themselves feel better, as if there’s something more mystical to explain decade after decade of deplorable ...

Hexenkopf Ridge Preserve outside Easton offers a trail hike and rocky outcroppings, some said to resemble a Hexenkopf — German for witch's head — with a history of superstitious healing.

Other scenes capture the horror of celebrity life with unsettling clarity. In a suspenseful face-off at her high-rise condo, ...

The infamous "Hex House" in York County was the site of the brutal murder of a man by people who believed he had cursed them.