Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Rhett Saggio checks out the Creative Discovery Museum's potions exhibit during the second annual Magic of Literacy event at the Chattanooga Choo Choo on Sunday, Oct. 27 ...

Calling all witches and warlocks … or library enthusiasts. Chicago’s Newberry Library is crowdsourcing translations for three 17th-century manuscripts of spells, charms and magic. Handwritten in ...

Standing hand in hand, they form a circle around a smooth black cauldron, their voices setting off a reverberating hum as they repeat, “Omm, omm, ommm.” Outside twilight is approaching. Inside the ...

A few drops of clary sage, a pinch of devil’s shoestring, and some fragments of smoky quartz. Five witches sit around a cauldron on a Saturday afternoon in the community space of an apartment building ...

The mixed bag of books labeled mind-body-spirit is filled with an array of categories and subjects—including self-help titles on topics such as alternative health, positive psychology, mindfulness and ...

Adults entranced by the kiddie witches and wizards in the Harry Potter series and the teen vampires in the Twilight Saga you've earned this grown-up tale. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness conjures up a ...