NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- At a time when participation in traditional religions is declining among Americans, the practice of witchcraft is said to be on the rise. CBS2's Ali Bauman went inside ...

If you took movies and TV shows seriously, witches, or those who practice witchcraft, would all be wearing pointy black hats, riding broomsticks and wickedly cackling over cauldrons. Unsurprisingly, ...

Broomsticks, cauldrons and pointy hats often come to mind when someone says the word "witch." Around Halloween and spooky season, famous characters and specific imagery surfaces when witches are ...

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 ...

Two weeks ago in the run-up to Halloween, I visited Salem, Massachusetts, for the first time since the pandemic began. In renewing my annual Halloween pilgrimage, I was bowled over by what I found in ...

Witchcraft has come a long way since the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s. Now, there are different types of witches, and each practitioner discovers who they are by the type of witchcraft they ...

I spent five years immersed in the American pagan community—first at arm’s length as a journalist, then as someone personally curious about the rituals I’d observed, and finally, for a couple of years ...