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What began as an online marketplace for handmade crafts has become the center of an unexpected spiritual debate.
According to conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, Etsy’s recent enforcement against listings advertising spellcasting, curses, love spells and other occult services highlights a much deeper issue than questionable online sales—it reveals what she believes is an increasing normalization of witchcraft in mainstream culture.
“We’ve got a spiritual sickness in our culture, and the gospel is the answer,” Stuckey said during a recent broadcast. “When it’s becoming popularized, when it’s becoming normalized, when it’s becoming commercialized, when billions and billions of dollars are being made by people casting spells on others through a seemingly innocuous site like Etsy, we’ve got a problem.”
The discussion follows renewed attention to Etsy’s enforcement of a policy prohibiting the sale of metaphysical services since 2015.
According to Stuckey, the marketplace had long allowed vendors to advertise services such as love spells, curses, psychic readings and money manifestation rituals despite those written rules.
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She pointed to widespread reports that someone allegedly purchased a spell targeting conservative activist Charlie Kirk before his assassination, arguing that the controversy may have prompted Etsy to begin more aggressively policing its marketplace.
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Stuckey also warned Christians not to dismiss the occult as harmless entertainment while emphasizing that believers need not live in fear.
“This witchcraft doesn’t have any dominion over the Christian,” she said. “We are indwelt by the Holy Spirit… He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.”
Still, she cautioned that the growing popularity of occult practices—including manifestation culture, tarot readings and online spellcasting—points to a broader spiritual hunger that cannot ultimately be satisfied apart from Christ.