⚐ Ancient Stories & Lore

In 1954, Gerald Gardner published Witchcraft Today, claiming to have been initiated into a surviving coven of traditional witches. He created—or re...

Violet Mary Firth, better known as Dion Fortune, was a British occultist, author, and founder of the Society of the Inner Light. Her books, both fi...

Doreen Valiente rewrote the Wiccan rituals, crafted The Charge of the Goddess, and fought for the rights of witches to practice openly. Initiated b...

In the 1980s and 90s, if you wanted to learn about witchcraft, you had few options. You could seek initiation into a coven (difficult to find and o...

Before Raymond Buckland, Wicca in America barely existed. After Buckland, it exploded into a movement. He was Wicca's Johnny Appleseed, planting se...

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay—known as Z Budapest—didn't just practice witchcraft. She weaponized it. In the 1970s, she fused feminism and witchcraft int...

Love her or hate her, Silver RavenWolf changed witchcraft. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, her books introduced hundreds of thousands of teenage...

She's not just the brightest witch of her age—Hermione Granger represents something revolutionary in fiction: a witch whose power comes from knowle...

Willow Rosenberg's journey in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (1997-2003) is one of television's most nuanced explorations of magical power, addiction, ...

'Charmed' (1998-2006) gave us the Halliwell sisters—Prue, Piper, Phoebe (and later Paige)—who discovered they were the most powerful witches in the...

'Wicked' (the musical based on Gregory Maguire's novel) retells the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West's perspective. Elphaba, born wit...

Sabrina Spellman, across multiple iterations (the lighthearted 1996-2003 sitcom and the darker 2018-2020 Netflix series), represents witchcraft as ...