In times of great turmoil, we tend to look to the spiritual, perhaps even the mysterious, for comfort, for answers. And nearly a century ago, reeling from the first World War and in the grips of an ...

YIVO spotlights fortune-tellers, mind-readers and wonder rabbis, and the enduring appeal of the supernatural in moments of social anxiety.

The nature of occultism is often misunderstood. Despite popular conceptions of Nazi esotericism or dark visions of the supernatural in films like The Exorcist, throughout modern history occult ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Raphael Cormack about his new book, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult." KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station. We are an independent, ...