Altars to the dead lined the basketball court at Kezar Pavilion: One was a shrine to pets, another memorialized fetuses that didn't come to term, and a third, with photographs of the first thousand ...

Word on the street's been pretty kind to witches in recent years, what with kids embracing the sorcery of the Harry Potter novels and Broadway glorifying blond Glinda and green Elphaba in the fluffy ...

Members of a folk ensemble in the Belarusian village of Pahost on May 6 celebrated the feast of Yur’ya, or Yaryla, a pagan harvest god who has persisted as part of some local folk customs. The dancers ...

There’s no Sunday school, and meetings are regularly held at Denny’s restaurants, but for members — and the federal government — Sacred Spiral is very much a church, albeit a Pagan church. High ...

The first pagan chaplain at Syracuse University has a sense of humor about the misperceptions of her faith. "We don't do animal sacrifices," Mary Hudson said, with a slight laugh. "We're not going to ...

Most of us grew up with images of witches. The good and bad witches in “The Wizard of Oz.” Samantha from “Bewitched.” Evil witches in Disney movies. Humorous characters in “Witches of Eastwick” and ...