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Recent Examples of spiritualism
While Sammie struggles to find acceptance before his father and his father’s religion, African spiritualism provides safety and knowledge.
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Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 5 May 2025
Contemporary accounts describe Antoine as a pious person, initially committed to Catholicism, then to spiritualism.
—Emilien Hofman (tr. Elettra Pauletto), The Dial, 20 Mar. 2025
By the time Alexander expired, in a fog of lunatic spiritualism, in 1825, his empire was the largest the world had ever known, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the far side of the Pacific Ocean, from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
This provided her with income, but her true life's work drew on af Klint's interest in spiritualism and mysticism.
—Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2025
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The relationship between the Nazis and the occult wasn’t black or white, but according to historian Eric Kurlander, Nazism and various branches of occultism became noticeably intertwined almost immediately after the founding of the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1919.—
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Pynchon’s daunting masterpiece, a white whale of a Great American Novel, is stuffed with pun-tastic songs, rocket science and World War II-era occultism.—
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Viral weddings and political controversy While witchcraft is an ancient practice and Etsy witches have existed online for years, interest in buying quick spells online surged in 2025 after several influencers praised their results.—
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The Glinda alternative, Cherry Blossom Bubble ($48), isn’t quite as authentically connected to witchcraft, but then neither is Glinda.—
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Part of me wanted to attribute this beautiful sorcery to extensions, but my beauty editor Spidey sense told me otherwise.—
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The trippy visuals are reminiscent of Doctor Strange's sorcery of the Marvel movies as birds and buildings multiple and fold in on themselves.—
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Former Disney star Calum Worthy is trying his hand at digital necromancy — and a lot people aren't happy about it.—
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Draco and Hermione become Kaine and Helena, England becomes Paladia, the dark arts become necromancy, and Harry Potter becomes Luc Holdfast.—
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“Spiritualism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritualism. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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