'A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding,' a 19th-century painting by Russian artist Vassily Maximov. Tretyakov Gallery/Wikimedia Commons The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working ...

The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But women haven’t always been the face of sorcery. Most of Catholic and Protestant Europe embraced the idea of ...

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 ...

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 Conversation) — The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies. (The Conversation) — The word ...

University of Michigan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. The word “witches” makes many Americans think of women working in league with the devil. But that hasn’t always ...