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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