The Bush administration has agreed to allow Wiccan pentacles in military cemeteries in a court settlement announced yesterday by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The settlement was ...

WASHINGTON, April 23 — To settle a lawsuit, the Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to a list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans’ ...

In news from across New York state: OLEAN, N.Y. -- Police are investigating vandalism aimed at a symbol of the Wiccan religion set up next to a Nativity scene in front of city hall. Officials in this ...

Facing lawsuits by veterans and their families, the Bush administration relented yesterday and agreed to allow the Wiccan pentacle -- a five-pointed star inside a circle -- on tombstones at Arlington ...

One of the most influential pieces of writing on witchcraft was the Malleus Maleficarum published in 1486 by German clergyman ...

The widow of a soldier killed in Afghanistan won state approval Wednesday to place a Wiccan religious symbol on his memorial plaque, something the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had refused. "I'm ...

Witchcraft still fascinates and repels. Hundreds of years after England’s witch trials in the Puritan mid-17th century, misconceptions and mistrust linger.

Do England’s medieval graffiti drawings reveal a lingering devotion to paganism? As reported by the BBC, the four-year-old Lincolnshire medieval graffiti project has uncovered more than 28,000 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- His co-workers and bosses gave him a devil of a time over his belief in Wicca, a modern form of paganism, accusing it of being "Satanism" and a "hate crime" against Christianity ...