At a time when black magic was relatively common, two curses involving snakes were cast, one targeting a senator and the other an animal doctor, says a Spanish researcher who has just deciphered the 1 ...

"We can see no easy origin to magic," Chris Gosden writes in Magic—A History, "because it has always been with us." Every culture that we know of has had magical beliefs and practices. Sometimes, as ...

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Most of the Satanic Bay Area's ornaments were gone within 72 hours. A Satanic group in California is pleading for people to stop stealing from its public Christmas display at a local park. Satanic Bay ...

Witch doctor displays his paraphernalia. Among Africans, curses are believed to be dreadfully powerful and potent enough to kill, deafen, blind, jinx, mentally incapacitate, mute wombs and testicles ...

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