SACRAMENTO, Calif. - This is a busy time for Wiccans as they observe the pagan New Year. Today is Samhain (pronounced sow-in), the celebration of endings and beginnings and of remembering the dead.

By some measures, Maine is one of the most Pagan states in the country.

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(The Conversation) — Wicca and witchcraft are popping up in pop culture these days, from teenage witches on TikTok to a Marvel comic superhero called Wiccan. It has even led The New York Times to ask: ...

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe, by Ronald Hutton, (Yale University Press: May 2022), 256 pages. Gerald Gardner was an old man with a great tuft of white hair on his head and ...

INDEX — You don’t convert to being a witch. “You just wake up and realize that’s what you’ve always been,” Archpriestess Bella LaVeau said. “And now you have a name for it.” Bella LaVeau, 58, leads ...

(RNS) — In anticipation of its 50th anniversary, the landmark film’s ‘director’s cut’ was released Wednesday in time for the solstice, a major pagan holiday. (RNS) — The sun crests in the northern sky ...

On another rainy Saturday, Minnehaha Park welcomed the Twin Cities Pagan Pride Festival for a vibrant event full of unique artists, educational rituals and so much more. Many gathered to celebrate ...

Every morning begins the same for Paul Ridlon, who also goes by Magnus de Rhuddlan. No matter the weather, he steps out of the round yurt where he lives in Portland and lights incense at his southern ...