Season of the Witch?

ALAN MURDIE finds evidence of a growing interest in witchcraft, curses and demonic influences

Have you ever come across cursed properties, ghostly witches or demonic influences? An increasing number of people are claiming to be doing exactly that, with a spate of stories suggesting new life is being breathed into some antique concepts and disturbing phenomena such as possession, against a backdrop of a new wave of interest in witchcraft and demonology reflected in a headline in the Metro newspaper: “Hocus Pocus: There’s a rise in witchcraft bubbling up across the globe” (7 July 2022). The chance to see “inside a creepy abandoned monastery” reputedly “haunted by a cursed ghost of a vengeful monk” and “demons” at Sicignano monastery in Salerno, southern Italy, proved irresistible to Roman Roebeck, a Dutch photographer and ‘urban explorer’ who engages in expeditions to uncanny places in the fashion…

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