Bernard Hoffman, “Kurt Seligmann and Enrico Donati in a ‘Magic Circle'” (1948), gelatin silver print of “Magic Evening” (Soirée Seligmann) (courtesy Seligmann Center at the Orange County Citizens ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google There’s no sorting hat, wands or flying broomsticks, but magical mysteries still await. A university in the United ...

Look round any bookshop and the section on the occult is likely to be next to, or close by, the section on religion. Counting the books alone (and I confess to have been an avid reader of the Denis ...

Espionage and magic share codes, secrets and rituals and a new cohort of writers are now casting their literary spells Spycraft and magic have always been strange but agreeable bedfellows, and a ...

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 ...

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The writer Tara Isabella Burton is one of the most interesting people you could ever hope to meet in New York City. In this essay, she writes about how she threw herself into the occult in a Romantic ...