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Cosette Paneque reviews this exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, which features many items that have never before been seen outside of Italy. Continue reading Review: ROME – Empire, Power, People…

“As the weather cools,” writes Clio Ajana, “the leaves change colors, and start to fall, we feel the veil thinning. We welcome our ancestors into our homes, our practices, and…

Torrential rains in Florence threatened to damage a painting of the god Bacchus by the Baroque master Caravaggio when a skylight leaked in the Uffizi gallery. Continue reading Carravagio’s “Bacchus”…

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, Witchy fashion, Ouija boards, protection magic, a Pagan scholars’ network, Star’s Tarot of the Week, plenty of community happenings, and even a playlist because,…

Researchers deliberately burned a modern papyrus scroll to help recover words lost nearly 2,000 years ago. Their experiment suggests traces of lead in ancient ink could reveal which of Herculaneum’s…

More Witches are watching Practical Magic 2 and reviewing it. Star Bustamonte and Stacy Psaros find Hollywood magic, familiar tropes, family curses, sympathetic Witches, and enough Owens family nostalgia (and…

More than 56 million years ago, something took wing. Now, combining ancient fossils with genomes from living species, researchers are rewriting the bat family tree, and tracing these creatures toward…

Beatrix Kondo reviews the first book in the Witches of Olderea series by Ireen Chau. “Think Jane Austen crashing a Barbie movie, if Barbie could accidentally hex a prince.” Continue…

Siobhan Ball welcomes our readers to soup season with a look into the history of sage’s association with healing and other forms of magic, along with a recipe for white…

Drawing upon the models presented by the Norse gods Tyr and Thor, Karl E.H. Seigfried argues for the Heathen ethic of taking action against injustice despite personal costs. Continue reading…