For most Americans, Halloween is a fun holiday when homes are decorated with symbols of the supernatural – witches, goblins and spirits – and costumed children go door to door collecting candy.

INDIANAPOLIS – A Wiccan activist and his ex-wife are challenging a court's order that they must protect their 9-year-old son from what it calls their "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." ...

The Contemporary Pagan Movement is hard to pin down by design. Paganism is a very big (and often literal) tent and those inside form and un-form groups freely. The Pagan belief in the supremacy of ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. _ Rebecca Walkoff knows that she could never pass a psychological test. “I hear voices,” Walkoff, 47, said as she enjoyed a cigarette outside her store, The Moon Willow, just off ...

A convicted murderer in jail for killing three people more than two decades ago is taking a state department to court because he claims they won’t allow him to have spiritual healing medicines and ...

Reporting from Portland, Ore. — Attending a rally for Bernie Sanders usually involves long lines and security screenings, but that wasn’t the case at an intimate, informal event Friday evening ...

NEW YORK – Witches are big draws at the box office, on TV — and apparently on college campuses. While Harry Potter wards off calamity with a flick of his wand, hundreds of students nationwide are ...

For a warlock who worships the goddess of the moon, curfews can be a bit of a hindrance. So when Cerwyn Jones found himself being punished by a court for carrying a five-inch ceremonial knife in a pub ...

Leigha LaFleur (center) leads a group of Bernie Sanders supporters in a Wiccan ritual meant to provide positive energy for the candidate ahead of Tuesday's Oregon primary. The half-dozen Portlanders ...