Category: Witchcraft

The following report, originally published in 1934, details the beliefs in magic during that time period in Mexico. While the article sometimes reminds readers to…

Did witchcraft play a part in the downfall of Adolf Hitler? This 1943 newspaper article tells of a death-doll trend taking place before Hitler was…

The following instructions and meanings of dominos was originally published in New Jersey newspaper back in 1913. Domino Fortunes Most children have a box of…

In folklore, red gardenias are the flowers of choice when it comes to seduction and love magic. In Sexual Bewitchery (Dolnick et al., 1998), the…

We, the people, are a ridiculous species on the planet Earth. We point and make fun of the strange rituals and habits of other animals…

One of the more devious, yet often retold methods of capturing love involves the lowly footprint. From Europe to Africa, a woman would watch where…

Halloween night was a fantastic time for divining future husbands, according to William S. Walsh (1925). He writes how on October 31st “cabbages are torn…

Sympathetic magic is a type of magic that is based on the idea that things that have once been in contact with each other continue…

There are many types of divination, but most can be divided in to two categories: direct and indirect. Direct divination is when the diviner is…

The history of the mandrake root is long and fascinating. But before we dive too deep into the mandrake’s history, let’s take a look at…