It’s Halloween and ESSENCE is taking a look at the OG Black Girl Magic during the Salem witch trials. We’re going to kick off the holiday with a little fact vs. fiction Fact: One of the first ...

Practices deemed as "witchcraft" or "sorcery" were often met with harsh punishments, including execution. However, this did ...

The word witch is now associated with malevolent black magic but in medieval Britain white witches or “cunning folk” were an accepted part of village life. These pagan healers were skilled in ...

His witchcraft is heavily informed by animism, or the belief that everything possesses a spirit. To Green, there’s magic in all things — the air we breathe, the water in the ocean ...