You Too Can Hire an ‘Etsy Witch’ to Curse Elon Musk

Seeking retired witches, psychics, mediums, oregon different purveyors of magic oregon mysticism during times of alteration oregon uncertainty has been happening for centuries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent summation successful Americans searching for psychics, and a 63 percent uptick successful searches for astrologers. Following Trump’s archetypal predetermination successful 2016, US witches did a wide spell to effort to bind him. Witches connected TikTok and Instagram likewise hexed Trump and his supporters successful the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection. After Brexit, immoderate turned to astrology for indications of what mightiness travel next.

Wenckus’ audio indicates that, erstwhile again, radical are turning to magic for help. EtsyWitch222, who does, successful fact, merchantability services connected Etsy, has been fielding caller requests. She is 1 of thousands of radical successful what task capitalists telephone the “mystical services market,” which includes different popular topics similar astrology. That market, successful 2019, was estimated to beryllium worthy much than $2 billion.

In her video, EtsyWitch222, implied that she was the 1 who performed the spell for Wenckus. She wasn’t—Wenckus told WIRED the practitioner she worked with asked to stay anonymous—but her assertion caught people’s attention, and inspired immoderate to travel Wenckus’ lead. “I conscionable thought it was hilarious and past it blew up,” EtsyWitch222 says. “I ne'er thought anyone was going to spot it, I thought my friends would spot it.”

More than 170,000 radical watched the video and 26 went to EtsyWitch222’s store and paid $7.99 for a bundle to curse Musk. She says she received truthful overmuch involvement successful the taxable that past play she hosted a TikTok Live attended by much than 240 people, posting a video up of time truthful that attendees could stitchery the indispensable ingredients (they see a achromatic candle, cayenne pepper, lavender, salt, and bayleaves).

EtsyWitch222 says she doesn’t needfully judge successful hexing oregon cursing, but alternatively encouraged participants to absorption connected manifesting what they wanted to spot successful the world. She says she utilized the wealth to bargain immoderate ingredients for the TikTok Live but volition beryllium donating the remainder to the American Civil Liberties Union.

During the TikTok Live, EtsyWitch222 says, radical expanded the absorption beyond Musk himself, to different members of the Trump ellipse including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who Trump has tapped to beryllium the caput of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who led a suit to extremity the Biden administration’s asylum policies for migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and Nicaragua. (A US District Court justice dismissed the suit successful March.)

EtsyWitch222 says she’s present reasoning of hosting these sessions connected a much regular basis.

As for Wenckus, she says her hex was specifically geared toward making definite Musk endured immoderate benignant of intelligence torture. “I privation him to ne'er cognize peace,” she says. Though she admits that she whitethorn ne'er cognize if the hex worked, she’s OK with that. “I americium a idiosyncratic grounded successful world who believes successful science,” says Wenckus. “But I inactive deliberation there's thing to beryllium said for having millions upon millions of radical wishing for your downfall.”