Brandon Weston grew up hearing "strange" stories about his multi-generational Ozarks family, rooted in the area since the 1800s. A popular one was about his great uncle Bill, who was considered a ...

When Seattle-based bruja Bri Luna founded her website, The Hood Witch, 10 years ago, it served as a spiritual intervention of sorts. In 2013, witches were all the rage on social media. Young white ...

Many meditation practices start with the simple instruction of paying attention to the breath (or some other object of attention, such as sounds, sensations, or even the whole field of awareness).

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. The strange 18th-century ...

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. The author, Guenther Dammann, ...