New Delhi [India], June 7: Many people think that occult science is something negative or related to black magic. But this is not true. The word "occult" only means something hidden or mysterious.

It’s 1.30am in the morning, and I’m about to watch a duel between magicians. One is a “demonolater”, a word I have never heard before, someone who claims they worship demons and can petition them in ...

In 1519, the German scholar Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa intervened to secure the release of a poor woman accused of witchcraft by a zealous inquisitor, who claimed that such women conceive children by ...

The word occultist often sparks images of shadowy rituals, cryptic symbols, and forbidden knowledge. Yet in truth, the occult is not only about mysticism — it’s deeply intertwined with spiritualism.

It’s 1.30am in the morning, and I’m about to watch a duel between magicians. One is a “demonolater”, a word I have never heard before, someone who claims they worship demons and can petition them in ...

It’s technically true. I’m researching the representation of magic on the early modern stage, and am interested in the ways in which dangerous, forbidden or “occult” knowledge was theorised by ...