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Posted inBooks

How Witches Have Held Us Under Their Spell for Centuries

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford October 26, 2021October 26, 2021

As a free, powerful, and unpredictable woman, the witch has long been a crucible for mainstream society’s darkest fears.

Posted inBooks

An 18th-Century Compendium of Magic Revels in the Dark Arts

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 28, 2017September 29, 2022

Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts.

Posted inPerformance

A Tale of 17th-Century Witchcraft Staged in NYC’s Oldest House

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 15, 2017November 15, 2017

The Visitation brought an immersive play on 17th-century witchcraft to the Wyckoff House, the oldest home in New York City.

Posted inHistory

North America’s Largest Witchcraft Collection Has Its First Major Exhibition

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

The first major exhibit on the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection opens Halloween, and explores the persecution of women through its historic objects.

Posted inArt

A Rare Deposition from the Salem Witch Trials Goes to Auction

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 13, 2017

Christie’s is auctioning a rare 1692 deposition from the Salem witch trials that helped sentence an elderly widow to death.

Posted inArt

The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 24, 2016October 27, 2021

In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

Posted inArt

Debuting the Collection of Britain’s Mother of Modern Witchcraft

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 23, 2016May 26, 2016

In 2013, a blue plaque, the historic marker of British heritage, was bestowed, for the first time, on the home of a witch.

Posted inArt

Wolf Teeth, Cradle Knives, and Other Early Modern Sleep Superstitions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 22, 2016March 23, 2016

Sleep for early modern Europeans was a time to be wary of demons and other dangers of the night.

Posted inArt

Cultivating the Occult Power and Singular Intimacy of Female Camaraderie

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz November 10, 2015November 11, 2015

MIAMI — &gallery is a small space that, if crowded, requires lots of shuffling and peering over shoulders.

Posted inArt

The Bewitching Geometry of the Moving Image Art Fair

by Daniel Larkin March 6, 2015March 8, 2015

Moving Image would be Emily Dickinson’s favorite art fair.

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