Christian Activists Disrupt Salem Witches Market Amid Renewed Calls to Oppose Halloween
A Christian ministry disrupted Salem’s Psychic Fair and Witches’ Market, harassing vendors, anointing booths, and desecrating an Ancestor altar amid a surge of anti-Halloween activism portraying Halloween and Samhain as…
Editorial – The Pagan Threat: Now Both a Bestseller and Interfaith Test
Lucas Miles’ The Pagan Threat has become a New York Times bestseller, warning of a “pagan uprising.” Yet the greater concern is not the book itself, but the silence surrounding…
Review: “Hades II” takes players from the depths of Tartarus to the heights of Olympus
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews Supergiant Games’s “Hades II,” which brings Witchcraft to the series’s roguelike gameplay and deep immersion into Greek mythology. Continue reading Review: “Hades II” takes…
Opinion: Why Witchcraft will keep rising, no matter how poor the public perception
“If you are part of the 0.4% of Americans that identify as ‘Pagan or Wiccan,'” writes Diana Helmuth, “October marks the time of year where the rest of America remembers…
Pagan Hauntology
As we officially enter the Season of the Witch, The Wild Hunt welcomes Gavin Fox, who examines the ways Witches, Pagans, and other occult communities were depicted in documentaries of…
Pagan Community Notes: Week of October 23, 2025
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Pagans join No Kings protests across the country and abroad, Star offers the Tarot of the Week, Cherry Hill Seminary announces its Samhain Kispum,…
Spirit of the Wood Itself: A Pagan Artist Experiences a Sound That Changed His Life
A single note from a handmade flute transformed Spider’s path, leading him from seeker to artisan and a twenty journey sharing music. Today, his instruments — shaped from reclaimed wood…
Religious Freedom Battle at Oak Flat Draws Interfaith Support for Indigenous Spirituality
At Oak Flat, a sacred Apache site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, Indigenous and interfaith leaders continue a years-long fight to protect holy ground from a proposed copper mine, testing…
Spirit in the Landscape: Rediscovering Worlds at Tutbury
Between two English counties, a day conference on sacred landscapes explored how energy, lunar geology, and living soil intertwine with Pagan spirituality. It offered a reminder that land and sacredness…
Pagan Cinema Classics: The Witches of Eastwick
Meg Elison turns her ribald and incisive attentions to George Miller’s 1987 classic of sex and magic. “Worse movies than this one have attempted to make a proper dicking down…