"I'm a modern witch, I admit it," says 59-year-old Barbara. She has spent her entire life feeling that she is in contact with the spirit world. Her room smells of incense, and she's about to ...

But it also includes modern reclamations, including photographs by Frances F. Denny, a descendant of one of the Salem judges, that focus on present-day people who identify as witches. Denny ...

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic and its founder, Gardner, is considered the “father of modern witchcraft.” ...

Winsham accomplishes a lot in this short book, but perhaps the most important thing she does is reframe the discourse in a way that places our historical witches under a different light and gives us ...

He is a leading authority on ancient, medieval and modern paganism, the history of the British Isles in the 16th and 17th centuries, and witchcraft beliefs. He is the author of many books including ...