Witchcraft has gotten a bad rap ever since the late 1400s when Pope Innocent VIII declared it heresy. From then until about 1750, roughly 200,000 witches were tortured, burned and hung across Western ...

In the 1950s, the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington created a book called The Milk of Dreams, filled with her drawings of chimeric, fanciful creatures—including a boy whose head becomes a house and ...

Interest in the occult has risen during the past decade, especially among young people. Seances are part of the trend. In a chamber beneath the Petit Ermitage Hotel in West Hollywood, 11 seekers ...