Let us begin with a short but true story. A child comes home from school and sees that the floor is sprinkled all over with rice. "Mama, what happened?" he says. "I am expelling bad energy from the ...

RD: What inspired you to write The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny? My book is about occultism and spiritual experimentation in modern Iran, and I examine these ...

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices. In a recent speech on ...

Nazi occultism is surrounded by myths, exaggerations, and stories that often make the regime seem stranger than it really was. But the real danger was not magic—it was propaganda, racial hatred, ...

Maybe it started with Indiana Jones. When Raiders of the Lost Ark premiered in 1981, audiences were treated to the vivid spectacle of bumbling Nazi officials obsessed with esoteric lore, eager to ...

Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the bestselling author of the new horror novel "Silver Nitrate" (Del Rey. 336 pp., out ...

Given the recent arrest of a US soldier for conspiring with members of the UK-based occult group the ‘Order of Nine Angles’ (O9A) to orchestrate an attack on fellow soldiers, and with the UK ...

In a recent speech on nutrition, the nation’s top health official offered a perhaps surprising explanation for what is ailing Americans. “We’re engaged right now in spiritual warfare and… the ...