{"id":88003,"date":"2026-11-01T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=88003"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:26:36","slug":"the-fall-of-the-etsy-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-fall-of-the-etsy-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall Of The Etsy Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Religion News Service:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years, witches found a home on Etsy. Now they\u2019re facing a problem even magic can\u2019t fix.<\/p>\n<p>Etsy witches hit the zeitgeist last year due to a series of viral videos and a controversial article about Etsy witches <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/digital\/news\/jezebel-charlie-kirk-editors-note-witches-curse-1236514904\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hexing<\/a> conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but in recent months, longtime spellcasters have begun exiting the platform.\u00a0 Since its 2005 launch, the online marketplace has been known as a purveyor of homemade goods, vintage clothes and craft supplies \u2014 and, for those with magical inclinations, as a destination for the occult. Alongside personalized ornaments and embroidered tote bags, buyers could peruse spells for love, passing exams and good weather for a wedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Religion News Service: For years, witches found a home on Etsy. Now they\u2019re facing a problem even magic can\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88004,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88003\/revisions\/88004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}