File this one to: ‘stories we never thought we’d write but boy-oh-boy are we glad we get to’.
An estimated 600 witches from around the globe gathered together in the wee hours of this morning to place a hex on Stanford rapist Brock Allen Turner to make him, among other things, impotent.
Melanie Hexen, a midwife and bellydancer who identifies as a “traditional hereditary witch” organised the mass hexing via the appropriately named Facebook event ‘The Hexing of Brock Turner‘.
“I think it really struck a chord with a lot of women as a way to feel like they have some power in this situation,” she told U.S. News. “That there was something they could do, some way they could come together and focus their rage and their need for justice that wasn’t being met.”
Here’s a sample of the hex:
Brock Allen Turner we hex you.
You will be impotent.
You will know constant pain of pine needles in your guts.
Food will bring you no sustenance.
In water, your lungs will fail you.
Sleep will only bring nightmares.
Shame will be your mantle.
My witchcraft is strong. Our witchcraft is powerful.
The spell will work. So Mote it be.
Some witches simply lit candles and prayed, while others went full-coven and used animal faeces, urine, spit and “nasty ointment”.
Despite the risk that using magic for harm can invoke something called a “Rule of Three or magical backlash” – and bear in mind we’re really writing this blind here – Hexen says she’s not too worried.
“There was a lot of anger sent to Brock Turner and to the judge,” she said. “However, there was also very much healing and love poured out amongst the women in the group … and much love and healing poured out to Brock Turner’s victim.”
Photo: Witches of Eastwick.
