Various artifacts that are thought to have been used for magic rituals were discovered on an ancient pilgrimage route winding through the Eliat Mountains in southern Israel. It is the largest group of ...

Farmers skinned cats about 1,000 years ago in Spain, possibly for the medieval cat-fur industry or a "magical" pagan ritual, a new study finds. Scientists found evidence of the skinning at the ...

Compass-drawn Hexfoil or “Daisy Wheel” designs from English medieval churches (all images courtesy Matthew Champion and Ebury Press) Champion writes that “the medieval church was a far more ...

For many medieval folk, the church was the centre of their lives. As a core institution, it sought to appeal to its congregations through a multisensory experience of music, text, movement, and visual ...

From your morning coffee to your Sunday skincare routine, habits compose a large part of our everyday lives. But what pushes these personal practices past the realm of patterns and into genuine ...

MAGIC: Charms, rituals and superstition in Elizabethan England will explore the magical folklore, rituals, fears and superstitions that were an everyday part of life in the second half of the 16th ...