Witches are real and their ranks are growing. Amid the rise in political activism across the country, young American women have been drawn to witchcraft as a sign of feminism and community building.

"Anyone could be a witch," Vin Diesel once said to me. I didn't think I'd be thinking so much about Vin Diesel, of all people, on my trip to Salem, Mass., but there I was, at a special screening for ...

Witches are a big deal in Salem's modern culture. The city's association with witchcraft has been capitalized on from films like 1993's "Hocus Pocus" to the annual Halloween festivities that draw in ...