GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa (AP) - A high school senior's desire to build a Wiccan altar in shop class has forced a community debate about free expression. Dale Halferty, who has taught industrial arts at ...

Kacey Carlson wants to set the record straight. Wiccans don’t worship Satan. Kacey Carlson explains the significance of the ritual objects a Wiccan would normally place on an altar. The objects ...

NEW YORK — In a secluded nook of Central Park, 13 witches stood in a circle on a cloudless Saturday, eyes closed, chanting. A makeshift altar on the forest floor bore a lantern, a silver chalice, a ...

Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: “When did everyone ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This is a busy time for Wiccans as they observe the pagan New Year. Today is Samhain (pronounced sow-in), the celebration of endings and beginnings and of remembering the dead.

My mother thinks it's hilarious at family holidays to remind me about "that witch stuff" — a collection of Wicca-lite paraphernalia I kept in a tattered suitcase under my bed when I was 13. She has no ...