It’s a curious fact about Harry Potter’s magic that it doesn’t really look all that hard to do. You wiggle the wand, you say the words–“Lumos! Expelliarmus! Accio Car Keys!”–and if you’re not a Muggle ...

If you’re a fan of the Harry Potter series, you’ve seen all the different ways that magic makes wizard and witches’ lives easier. It’s easy to want to disappear to J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, ...

QUESTION: Do you make potions? ANSWER: In fairy tales and in video games, “potions” are drinks or liquids that have magical properties or give the drinker magic powers. Lots of fairy tales include ...

New this year at the Festival of Magic, grown-up witches and wizards can ride their broomsticks and sample adults-only potions and libations on a pub crawl in Chesterton. The Valparaiso Festival of ...

In our sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today. It was a well-kept secret among historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that the ...