⚐ Ancient Stories & Lore

The year is 1692. Winter's chill seeps through the wooden walls of Reverend Parris's home in Salem Village, but it's not the cold that makes young ...

They say if you visit St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans, draw three X's on Marie Laveau's tomb, turn around three times, knock three times, a...

Mist clings to Pendle Hill like the secrets it keeps. This brooding Lancashire peak has watched over England's witch country for millennia, and in ...

In the flickering candlelight of your sacred space, you open a blank book. Its pages wait, pristine and patient, ready to become something more—you...

They burned us. For three centuries, they burned us. Or did they? The 'Burning Times'—a term coined by modern witches and pagans—refers to the Eu...

In the deep dark forest where birch trees whisper secrets and wolves sing lullabies, there stands a hut on chicken legs. Inside lives Baba Yaga—not...

On the island of Aeaea, a woman waits. Daughter of Helios the sun god, aunt to Medea, Circe is called 'witch' by those who fear her power to transf...

Between 1626 and 1631, the German city of Bamberg became hell on earth. Over 1,000 people—perhaps more—were executed for witchcraft in a systematic...

Born in 1488 in a cave in Yorkshire, Ursula Southeil was said to be hideously ugly—a witch's child if ever there was one. She became Mother Shipton...

Gazing into a crystal ball isn't fortune-telling—it's scrying, an ancient practice of seeing beyond the veil. From Nostradamus to modern witches, p...

You don't need elaborate rituals or expensive tools to practice magic. Your kitchen is a temple, your wooden spoon a wand, your recipes are spells....

Black cats, toads, ravens, hares—the witch's familiar has taken many forms through history. But what is a familiar, truly? Not a pet, but a spiritu...