Superstition
Saju: the Korean obsession with fortune-telling
Saju - fortune telling - is big business in Korea, as more and more people in their 20s and 30s turn to traditional divination for answers.
The new-age guru who claims cancer can be cured by drawing magic shapes in the air
According to spiritual guru and bestselling author Dr Zhi Gang Sha, Tao Calligraphy can radically better your life, improve your finances... and cure your cancer
Which is witch? How modern witches differ from the women who had the label thrust upon them
The self-labelled 'witches' of modern religious movements may a share little more than a name with the powerless victims of historic witch-hunts
Druids, the devil, and the hope for salvation: piecing together Jack Chick’s ‘The Broken Cross’
Right-wing radical Christian propagandist Jack Chick struggles with the paradox of his all-powerful Satan figure in The Broken Cross.
The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend
Legendary horror stories of monstrously hairy hands sending drivers in Devon to their death can be traced back to a spate of tabloid tales in the 1920s
“Miracles Today?” A Medical Critique of Craig Keener’s miracle claims
A recently published book claims to present stories of miraculous healings brought about by prayer, yet there remains no good evidence of even a single Christ-like miracle
Elizabethan Skepticism: How “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” pushed back against a moral panic
While still a product of it's time, Reginald Scot's "A Discoverie of Witchcraft" in 1584 offered common-sense challenges to the moral panic around witchcraft
The return of a myth: Satanic ritual abuse and the sacred status of Argos
In June 2020, the Dutch radio program Argos brought false claims of satanic ritual abuse back into mainstream discourse.
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