NPR

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Police say the woman "attempted to elicit funds ... in return for protection from some form [of] potential danger." The law was scrubbed from Canada's criminal code last week.

Singapore Tatler

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard

JOY Magazine

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Last month, we had an extraordinary crusade in Madabani, Limpopo. Daily reports packed with terrific testimonies and inspirational images have been posted on our website inhisname.global. Over five evenings, we preached the Gospel in this rural, Sout

Los Angeles Times

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Witches continue to work their dark arts in some parts of the world, at least in the minds of their accusers. For example, in a rural farming community in southwestern China, 13.7 percent of the population has been labeled "zhu," or "witch," by their

Hong Kong Tatler

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard

Chat It's Fate

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Ebony Dempsey, 30, High Wycombe I’ve been an eclectic witch since childhood, using spells and magic to attract what I want. I’m a herbalist and drawn to healing using nature – herbs, the elements and emotions - in my magic. When I became a mum, I c

SFX

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Tell us about your protagonist. Evey is 15, and along with her younger sister Dill has been raised in “the witching way” by her mother. But she’s looking to make her own way, to be free of her family. That’s when the witch hunters arrive and change h

Mother Jones

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1500s-1600s: Social upheaval and sectarianism lead to witch trials across Europe—tens of thousands are executed. Older women, outcasts, and healers are particularly vulnerable. The trials, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English note in their book Wit

The Atlantic

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Americans’ interest in spell-casting tends to wax as instability rises and trust in establishment ideas plummets.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 | Hardback/ebook Author VV James Publisher Gollancz Sanctuary is being described as “Big Little Lies meets The Craft”. You could think hard for a month and still fail to come up with a better description – and it’s clearly entic

The Guardian

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One eve of Witchfest event, radicals say they believe magic and occult are natural extensions of feminism and eco activism

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - The Oracle of Los Angeles was feeling frazzled. It was already 2 p.m. and she hadn't had time to prepare lunch, much less wipe the ash from her altar. A tarot card client had just left her yellow Craftsman house in West Adams, evidenced

Reason

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“WE CAN SEE no easy origin to magic,” Chris Gosden writes in Magic—A History, “because it has always been with us.” Every culture that we know of has had magical beliefs and practices. Sometimes, as with divination or astrology, those practices aim t

Malaysia Tatler

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“Witches don’t burn, honey,” Sabrina Villard, a modern-day shaman, tells me as we’re standing in a ceremony room inside her chic apartment on Robinson Road in Hong Kong’s exclusive Mid-Levels district. “We are not going anywhere.” As a baby, Villard

SFX

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McKee’s upbringing instilled him with a love of the magical, and it’s something he believes we could all do with a little more of. “I was brought up in South Devon with witches and ghosts and all that kind of thing,” he recalls. “Living on the edge o

Literary Hub

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On Wednesday, N.K. Jemisin—the “Hugo-winning, bestselling, science fiction and fantasy-writing, cat-owning, bike riding, video game playing, Southern-raised but New York dwelling full-time author, and part-time reviewer for the New York Times,” as sh

The Millions

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Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Jami Attenberg, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, Hisham Matar, Silvina Ocampo, Robert Pinsky, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Attenbe

All About History

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Author Christina Riggs Publisher Thames & Hudson Price £14.95 Released Out now If you have ever fancied soaring through the skies, searched for a magical amulet to keep demons from their door, or even hankered for a sightseeing trip to the land of

Literary Hub

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The first tore through the state like a pestilence. Later, when the rains came and the firemen once again evacuated the hill people, always a little more conservative in their sensibilities than the rest of LA, a woman on the local news, looking like

NPR

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A slightly witch-y mother, an astrologer, and the co-writer of a guide for Basic Witches share their eclipse rituals.

BBC History Magazine

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Liz Williams’ friendly and authoritative history of paganism gets quickly to the point: paganism is defined on the first page of the introduction as a religion that is outside the mainstream of recognised “world religions” and sometimes focuses on a

City Press

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Directors: Dugald MacDonald and Tatjana Meirelles There are countless stories about everyday people who took a stand against apartheid in their own spaces, and Blindside tells the story of some of them. The documentary re-emphasises that no single

The Paris Review

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Still from Hereditary. I had been sitting in a lovesick fog, waiting to see Ari Aster’s Hereditary, ever since I first heard about it. I don’t usually follow new movie releases too closely, but I found out about the movie back in January, when people

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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As the quote by Roald Dahl reads: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” For jewellery designer Kim McKay, who created the company Wicken three years ago, believing in magic was never the issue. It’s how it found her that’s the real s

Literary Hub

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In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, taped live at the inaugural Wordplay in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Marlon James and Daniel José Older speak with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the politics of literary categories.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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“Searching for the Witches’ Tower” (November/December 2019) rightly identifies the role of King James I in promoting the eradication of witchcraft in seventeenth-century England, but does not mention the impact of the King James Version of the Hebrew

All About History

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Author Martin Wall Publisher Amberley Publishing Price £20 Released Out now for example, the section about 16th-century astrologer and mathematician John Dee could have been supplemented with material on the wider spiritual activities of the Elizabet

Literary Hub

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The first tore through the state like a pestilence. Later, when the rains came and the firemen once again evacuated the hill people, always a little more conservative in their sensibilities than the rest of LA, a woman on the local news, looking like

The Guardian

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Now that it is fashionable for aggrieved political factions to dismiss criticism as a “witch hunt”, it’s worth remembering what makes actual witch hunts so pernicious. It’s not that the women thus accused are in fact innocent – it’s that they couldn’

Chat It's Fate

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I believe I was a witch. I’ve been to Salem in the USA to try and find my history but nothing happened to trigger past-life memories. Solly, 31, Portsmouth, Hampshire. It’s 1662. The lanes of Hartford, Connecticut are awash with panic and fear. A c