Wired: You Too Can Hire an 'Etsy Witch' to Curse Elon Musk

[Dennis Donovan]

Wired - (archived: https://archive.ph/aKdEh ) You Too Can Hire an ‘Etsy Witch’ to Curse Elon Musk

Riley Wenckus used TikTok to tell Elon Musk she paid “an Etsy witch” $7.99 to make his life “a living hell.” A new market has opened up for others looking to follow her lead.



In the days following the presidential election, Riley Wenckus was angry. Specifically, she was angry at billionaire and X owner Elon Musk for the role he played in president-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

“I was feeling really existential about what I can do,” she says. “You know, he is the richest man on earth.”

So Wenckus turned to a solution she’d used for other personal problems in the past: She hired a witch to curse him. Afterward, Wenckus took to TikTok, posting a video in which she yelled, “Elon motherfucking Musk! I just paid an Etsy witch $7.99 to make your life a living hell!” So far, the video has been viewed nearly 5 million times and its audio has been used by other practitioners to show off their magical services. “I really just love the idea of supporting a small business and sending ill will to someone I hate,” Wenckus says.

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“I think that people are turning more and more to their spiritual practice to cope with some of the powerlessness that we all feel in the wake of the last election,” says a TikTok creator who asked to go by her handle, EtsyWitch222, and who made her own video using Wenckus’ audio.

Seeking out witches, psychics, mediums, or other purveyors of magic or mysticism during times of change or uncertainty has been happening for centuries. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Yelp noted a 74 percent increase in Americans searching for psychics, and a 63 percent uptick in searches for astrologers. Following Trump’s first election in 2016, US witches did a mass spell to try to bind him. Witches on TikTok and Instagram similarly hexed Trump and his supporters in the wake of the January 6, 2021 insurrection. After Brexit, some turned to astrology for indications of what might come next.

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Well, that's a different idea.

[jls4561]

1. If I were to hire an Etsy witch to try to cure the testosterone poisoning in this incoming administration,

I would need a much larger 401k.

[Betty Boom]

2. What a stupid waste of money

How about instead you donate to a charity that’s actually going to do something real to fight these people.

[hlthe2b]

3. Sure, but I'd bet it (the effort) will get under Musk's skin

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes I think it will bother Musk if large number of people are putting a curse on him.

And he is crazy and drug addicted enough to think it might come true.

[RockRaven]

4. If anyone is interested in this service, I will provide it at half price. Just send me

a check and I promise to match the efficacy of the full price witches.

[WhiteTara]

5. Here's a free one

The power of the Goddess is greater than
The greed of men.
Through the power of the Goddess
You are bound, unable to do evil deeds.
You are bound to the goodness of the Earth
And Her defenders.

[Hekate]

9. So mote it be

[Solly Mack]

7. I'll do it for $3.50.

[Deep State Witch]

8. I'm In The Wrong Line of Work

And here I just have my little bead business on Etsy. I'd probably make more money cursing people. But 1) I have ethics; 2) I'd do it for free; and 3) it's only a matter of time before Etsy cracks down on this.

[thebigidea]

10. Grifters gotta grift

[Babajida]

11. I'll do it for free!

[Meowmee]

12. Or you can just do it yourself 😹