Phoebe Ungerer has just opened the only retail witch outlet on the upper West Side, and business in herbs, oils, charts, pentacles, chalices, ritual knives and statues of goddesses is booming. What?

So far, Andrea Karanda has taken the taunts in stride. There were the notes left in the mail slot of Incantations, her new store on Broad Street — quotes from the Bible about God’s goodness. There was ...

Whether they're knocking at your door trick or treating, or hung as decorations in shop windows, witches are rife at this ...