The Asian Age

These witches know how to use digital platforms

Mogosoaia: “Repeat after me! To be together with who I want,” a family of Romanian witches chant via a video call to a client in India paying for a love spell. The session, in a decorated shed in a ...
Variety

How ‘Agatha All Along’s’ Witchy Ballad Was Inspired by Georgian Chants, and Kristen Anderson-Lopez on Her Hopes for Stevie Nicks to Record a Cover Version

When “Agatha All Along” showrunner Jac Schaeffer needed a song that would operate as the show’s plot device, she called on “Frozen” and “Coco” songwriters Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. That ...
Los Angeles Times

In Taiwan, an effort to bring back witches

TAIWAN — When Djupelang Qrudu was growing up in her tribal village, her grandmothers saw something special in her and recommended an alternative to attending high school: becoming a witch. Djupelang, ...
The American Conservative

A History of Music, Real Pagan Witches, and an Ode to Skimming

I don’t live for the weekend, but I’m glad it’s here. First up: Old grammar forms live on in American English: “Take the past participle of get, which in Britain is got and in America gotten. To some ...
BBC Asia-Pacific

Taiwan aborigines pass on witchcraft tradition

Witches, or mediums, had high status in Taiwan in the past It is not the Harry Potter kind of witchcraft, but it's equally spellbinding, say elders in Taiwan's Paiwan tribe. The indigenous tribe has ...