Some people say that the best revenge is living well, but TikTok seems to believe that the best revenge comes from an Etsy Witch. A combination of crystals, salts and candles, and a deck of tarot cards. The people of TikTok have turned to Etsy witches for help with their careers, love lives, and spiritual healing.
Need an annoying ex out of your life? There’s an Etsy witch for that. Need to secure that job after the interview? There’s a Etsy witch for that. Need to make that one person notice you? There’s an Etsy Witch for that.
If you thought witches only existed in films and fiction, let me tell you, that you’re wrong. In essence, Etsy Witches are witchcraft practitioners who sell spells or services in order to promote spiritual healing, manifestation, and self esteem.
Where did Etsy WitchTok come from?
#WitchTok has become an incredibly popular tag on TikTok, bringing Wiccan and spiritual practices into mainstream culture, and the rise of Etsy Witches has only increased it’s reach.
WitchTok began as a community of people, generally women, who practiced alternative spiritual beliefs, such as praying to Pagan deities, utilising crystals and spells, and manifesting their deepest desires.
Now with the monetisation of their practices, Etsy Witches are sharing their work with their audiences and their clients, with a huge response.
The People of TikTok have turned to Etsy witches for help with their careers, love lives, and spiritual healing. We’re even seeing both sides of the exchange, both the results of the spells from the buyers, and the witches themselves, like this TikToker.
Do they work?
@lovelightandtarot Are you looking for an #etsywitch with #spellsthatwork ? Well im happy to tell you, youre in the right place! #lovespells #lovespellsthatwork
People purchase spells from these Etsy Witches in the hopes that something in their life changes, and apparently they actually deliver. One Etsy Witch shared a few examples of how her spells helped customers, captioning her TikTok: “POV you trusted the Etsy Witch to bring your person back”.
Requests ranged from getting someone to text first, getting their partner to be more open and success on social media.
A lot of Etsy witches have shared their services on TikTok in order to promote their work, but the app is also home from anecdotes and testimonies to the guarantee of a good outcome following the casting of a spell. One woman, Dre, explained how she asked an Etsy Witch for a spell to boost her following, and includes receipts, proving it worked.
@thecltea Replying to @jackiofalltrades Here is my TRUE and very random Etsy witch experience #fyp #spells #etsywitch
She said: “I asked the Etsy Witch to help me go viral. She gave me an opportunity to do that, I still had to do the work. I still had to make the video.”
Whilst you can get a spell for pretty much anything, these witches aren’t miracle workers and you still need to put some work in for them to work. Etsy Witches explain how it’s not the magic alone that will get you the results you want, but a positive mindset and hard work, presenting the spells as essentially an add on to your own actions.
This begs the question, what would have happened if Dre has made the videos but not asked an Etsy Witch for a spell? Did the spell even work?
Another user, Jamie, said hiring an Etsy Witch was “1,000 per cent worth it.” She said she “paid $14 and it as the best $14 I ever spent” after asking for the witch to confirm whether her ex love was right for her.
Some people still are on the fence about whether their spells work, but a woman called Michaela said she even paid an Etsy Witch $4.89 to hear back about a job – for that price I think I’d take the gamble too.
The controversy of Etsy Witches
@nilespyrit Replying to @Tatiiii yall need to get help on my soul #witchtok #spellwork #spells
Like any other service provider, Etsy Witches also come under the scrutiny of the TikTok comment section, either because of their lack of results from certain witches, or because of the price.
One TikTok user, who also practices witchcraft, responds to a comment that claimed Etsy witches work just the same and don’t “charge through the roof”.
She went on to say that “real” Etsy witches charge a premium, and that there is a slew of “Etsy witches” who inform the intended of the spell that someone paid them to put a spell on them. She adds “a real witch wouldn’t do that”, calling into question the validity of some Etsy witches’ qualifications. The witch then ends her video, asking “do y’all not value your safety?” implying that there’s a darker side of purchasing services from an untrained or cheaper alternative to a “real” witchcraft practitioner.
Despite the clear hype, people are divided as to whether they actually work or not, and whether it’s worth paying someone to do something they have no actual proof of qualification to do.
Featured image via TikTok @michaela_amanda
