Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre

With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “

It was a hot day in one of the hottest and most uncomfortable summers of recent years. I was standing in a small upstairs bedroom of a house on the outskirts of a modern estate in the borough of South

The river at Alet-les-Bains sparkled in the late afternoon sun as I stood beside it, gripping a smooth pebble in my palm. Around me, five other women, all somewhere between 48 and 62, prepared to do t

For years, I practised ‘the craft’ in secret… now I’m a social media sensation.