In the PBS documentary series “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows how African Americans introduced new rhythms, music and dance to Christianity ...

Come join the Witches of Reclaiming for our 38th annual Spiral Dance ritual. We gather to remember and honor our ancestors, our Beloved Dead, and the pain suffered by the Earth, our Mother. Yet as we ...

A Connecticut-based troupe called The Wayward Witches performs expressive dances throughout the year, not just on Halloween. Witch dancing originated in Germany and has spread globally, with groups ...

To be clear: Neither of the regional witch groups performing at Halloween events actually casts spells under the moon. “No, not at all,” said Laurie Kintner of the Muddy River Mystics, based in the ...

LINCOLN, R.I. — The women gathered like approaching storm clouds at this Hollywood-haunted farmland, along the Great Road that’s older than the Salem witch trials. Some held simple housekeeping brooms ...

In October and November, Connecticut Wiccans and pagans are celebrating the Halloween season and the end of autumn with Samhains, an annual religious ritual that marks the final harvests, the coming ...