BUFFALO, N.Y. – Phillips Stevens Jr., PhD, a University at Buffalo cultural anthropologist, says that while magic and witchcraft are both thoroughly researched topics across various academic ...
Think you know everything there is to know about witches? Think again. The subject of popular witch movies like “Hocus Pocus” and TV shows like “Bewitched,” their influence on pop culture is ...
“The Road is wild and wicked, winding through the wood — where all that’s wrong is right and all that’s bad is good,” goes The Ballad of the Witches’ Road. “Through many miles of tricks and trials, we ...
Elwynn Green’s morning routine is relatively unremarkable, at least at the start. With his wife, Green wakes up his three daughters, makes them breakfast and prepares their lunches. Once they’re ...
Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set ...
The respective worlds of Marvel Comics and DC Comics aren't always associated with magic and sorcery. Some of the biggest characters from either franchise run the gamut from otherworldly aliens ...
This story contains spoilers for “WandaVision” Episode 8. “WandaVision” itself has poked fun at the fact that within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wanda Maximoff has always been known just as Wanda ...
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UB cultural anthropologist Phillips Stevens Jr. says that while magic and witchcraft are both thoroughly researched topics across various academic disciplines, a new effort is needed if we’re to fully ...
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for WandaVision Season 1, Episode 8, "Previously On."] “This is Chaos Magic, Wanda. And that makes you the Scarlet Witch.” Nearly six years after ...