Karen Silva and Sharon L’Heureux, both of Meriden, are proud to count themselves among the nation’s witches. The women are both priestesses of Wicca, a federally recognized neo-Pagan religion — and ...

Witches have gotten a bad rap. Portrayed alternately as conniving tricksters, bearers of bad omens, casters of curses, and perpetrators of evil, these herbal and medicinal craft practitioners have ...