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In the elite drawing rooms of 1920s-era Boston raged a battle of spiritual proportions. It pitted the magician Harry Houdini, master of illusions, against a woman who claimed to channel the spirit of ...

A self-described witch in Moose Jaw, Sask., says she's outraged that religious groups have pressured a local museum to cancel a Halloween seance. The Western Development Museum had been planning to ...

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 ...