As 'Wicked' prepares to cast its spell over the box office, we look at how portrayals of witches on screen have evolved to become symbols of female empowerment and an embracement of otherness.

SEE25 best TV witches, ranked worst to best. In the decades since, witches have appeared in just about every genre of film. Early romantic comedies “I Married a Witch” and “Bell, Book and ...

In the U.S., we tend to only hear about witches on Halloween, but in Romania, they have year-round work. Mihaela Minca, who has been practicing magic since age 7, is a third-generation witch.

Witches: A history of misogyny. The sexist abuse that haunts modern life is nothing new: women have been 'trolled' in art for 500 years. Deanna Petherbridge, co-curator of the first major ...

Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

Often, they were healers — beautiful and mystical goddesses who used their powers for good (with the occasional, well-deserved evil.) Other times the witch merely existed as a mysterious ...

She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because she was evil. Being a good-looking man was fundamentally good news. Being a handsome woman, by definition, spelt trouble.

CROMWELL -- While a small group's efforts to ban materials dealing with witches and witch-craft from the school system continues to garner attention, members of the Wiccan religion have mounted a ...