The dark arts have a new name — witchcore — and it's lurking in your local grocery store



Paganism has been on the rise in the Western world for some time now. More and more people are abandoning their religious upbringings and rejecting the Judeo-Christian values of the West. While some have opted to adopt agnosticism or atheism, others, especially Gen Zers, have chosen to replace Christianity with a different set of beliefs and practices rooted in paganism. Ranging from engaging in actual black magic to just dressing in dark, edgy clothing, witchcore is the newest fad among the rising generation.

Unlike the colonial days when witches were so feared that even the town spinster had to watch her back, today, witches and witchcraft are embraced by society.

Allie Beth Stuckey points to a recent magazine in a grocery store checkout lane titled “Witches: Discover their secretive and mysterious practices” as an example of how mainstream the occult has become. The magazine, which features a woman clad in black robes and a pointed hat holding a cluster of burning red candles, sits adjacent to gossip columns and rows of candy as if it’s just another mundane object.

“This is clearly a glorification of witchcraft,” says Allie.

While the magazine features a traditional-looking witch, the majority of today’s witches look like “your normal suburban mom.”

“Even if someone is not wearing a pointy hat and walking around with their black cat, they might be imbibing and emulating [and] exhibiting aspects of witchcraft,” says Allie.

Further, modern “witchcraft doesn't necessarily always look like a Ouija board or like dying your hair black and casting spells,” she explains. It often looks like “manifesting,” “transcendental meditation,” “burning sage,” “using crystals,” etc.

Modern witches weren’t ushered into the dark arts because they happened to stumble upon a group of women chanting incantations in the forest either. Most of them were introduced to new age concepts in the growing realm of “self-help” and “self-empowerment” guides. Allie explains that things like “a Cosmo article,” “astrology,” or the idea of tapping into your inner “goddess” is all it takes for someone to set off down a path of darkness.

A recent British Vogue article even spoke on the subject of witchcore and admitted that although the fad aims to “merge romantic mystical vibes with grungy Gothic undertones,” the “witchcore aesthetic is influenced by ancient rituals and practices, from potion making and herbalism to tarot card reading, sage burning, and crystal healing.”

“It’s not just about following a trend that you saw that you think is cute,” says Allie. Even things that seem benign, like a specific clothing aesthetic, are rooted in the incredibly dark idea of unleashing “a woman’s darker side.”

Artists like Taylor Swift are heavily responsible for viralizing the witchcore trend.

Allie plays a video of Swift performing on her Eras tour in a black robe surrounded by a circle of female dancers who are also clad in black robes. They essentially bow down to the pop icon who stands in the center of the dark ring.

“That is clearly demonic,” says Allie.

What’s perhaps even more disturbing, however, is the number of Christians who don’t recognize that these new age concepts and practices are satanic in nature. Some even try to engage in certain aspects of new ageism while maintaining their Christian faith.

“That’s called syncretism,” says Allie.

“In the Book of Revelation, one of the things that [Jesus] condemns is syncretism — trying to wed light and darkness.”

To hear more of Allie’s commentary on the rise of modern witchcraft, watch the episode above.

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Kat Von D on her renunciation of paganism: 'I just want Jesus'



In case you weren’t aware, tattoo artist and TV personality from "LA Ink" Kat Von D has had a spiritual awakening — one that has resulted in her renouncing all paganism and embracing evangelical Christianity.

Recently, she joined Allie Beth Stuckey on "Relatable" to tell the story behind her radical transformation.

While this may surprise many, Von D was “born in a literal third world country” to “missionary Christians,” and yet that time “was one of the most abundant times” in her life, she says.

However, despite being raised “with God in [her] household” and reading "the Bible twice” in her early teens, Von D “ended up straying.”

“I ended up being a pretty wild teenager and leaving home at the age of 14 ... and putting my parents through a literal hell,” she told Allie.

After being sent to what she calls “a lockdown facility” and “boarding school” around age 16, Von D started drinking to cope with the trauma, which she says was “the beginning of [her] addiction.”

By age 21, Von D, who was already starring in "Miami Ink," had become “a full-blown alcoholic” and was “introduced to drugs.”

After years of struggling with addiction, she eventually got clean and started “wanting to fix" herself, which led to the discovery of “New Age stuff.” However, she was “never in a cult,” “never a witch,” and “definitely not a satanist,” despite what the rumors say.

“I was trying to find answers in the wrong places,” she said, and while “transcendental meditation,” seeking an obscure “higher power,” and reciting a “mantra” helped for a while, these practices were “short-lived Band-Aids on a sinking ship.”

Eventually, she threw away all her “self-help” books — everything from witchcraft books to texts on meditation and yoga.

“Breathing techniques,” “spell work,” and “nature worship ... they're just crutches; they're not really my answer,” Von D said. “I just want Jesus.”

To hear how Kat Von D came to renounce paganism in exchange for Jesus, watch the video below.


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NPR runs pro-witchcraft piece – The occult today is 'as trendy and as helpful as veganism or yoga'



“This may surprise you,” says Glenn Beck sarcastically, but “witches are real” and they’re “liberal politically.”

NPR recently ran what Glenn calls “a fluff piece” on witches and the religion of witchcraft.

“Witches have long cast a spell on American entertainment, but they aren’t just a figment of our imagination. Witchcraft is a real practice, and people who practice witchcraft are all around you,” the NPR segment began.

The show goes on to interview American writer Diana Helmuth, who devoted a year of her life to exploring witchcraft.

It was “month seven before I tried to make a connection with the goddess,” whether she is “a real deity up in the sky” or “a metaphor for the interconnectedness of everything on Earth,” Helmuth explained.

“So I go and I set up this ritual to try and talk to a particular goddess,” and after “sitting in front of an altar that I made” for “about an hour, something happened – I just suddenly felt flooded with bliss,” she recounted.

“My initial reaction to this NPR story was a little eye-rolling,” admits Glenn. “Of course, NPR is on the side with witches.”

However, it’s also quite scary. “There are supposedly, according to NPR, more witches than Presbyterians,” says Glenn, and “USA Today claims … that ‘hip witchcraft’ is on the rise in the U.S.”

“You’ll find articles on witchcraft all throughout the liberal media,” says Glenn, but unlike the past, when people knew terms like "the occult" meant bad news, today’s society seems to be fascinated with the world of witchcraft.

It shouldn’t surprise you to find out that people who practice witchcraft usually run in the woke crowd.

“Witchcraft is especially popular among … transgender activists,” says Glenn, citing an academic article. He quotes:

‘Contemporary paganism portrays gender in an array of different ways and, as such, is very inclusive of sexual diversity. Much of this phenomena happens through what pagans call witchcraft. But how does witchcraft help queer and transgender pagans take part in the pagan community?”

“I looked it up,” says Glenn, and according to online sources, “witchcraft [is] an inclusive movement,” which “is seeing a resurgence among queer-identified young people seeking a powerful identity that celebrates the freedom to choose who you are.”

“Here’s what unites all of them – witches, leftists, transgender activists, NPR, the liberal media,” explains Glenn. They’re “fighting for relevance … they pester, they annoy, they shock or try to shock, in a bid to get attention,” but they “lose their power when people stop watching them or stop caring.”


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Transgender pedophile who subjected his 7-year-old daughter to a 'vortex of darkness' sues New Jersey women's prison for hampering his witchcraft



New Jersey permitted a 34-year-old man convicted for torturing and filming pornographic, transgender videos with his 7-year-old daughter to serve his 25-year sentence in a women's prison. The child rapist now claims that the women's facility has wrongfully interfered with his diabolic rituals.

Matthew Volz filed a lawsuit on April 28 in the Hunterdon County Superior Court against the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women.

Volz alleges in the suit that he and the "entire Wiccan population" at the prison — an inmate subset for which he provided no accounting — have suffered religious discrimination and now seek religious accommodations.

What's the background?

TheBlaze previously reported that after serving as president of the Clark College Queer Association, Volz started an amateur "transgender pornography" film business with three other degenerates, including Adam Romero, now a fellow inmate at Edna Mahan. They specialized in violent and fetishistic criminal content.

After Volz and the victim's mother separated, he managed to win custody in 2018. Volz brought the child from Oregon to New Jersey, where he exploited her in his videos, reported Reduxx.

The child suffered horribly until the New Jersey Department of Child Protection intervened in 2019 following an anonymous tip made to the New Jersey Child Abuse hotline. The intervention culminated in Volz's arrest.

"If this was not heinous, cruel and depraved, I don’t know what is," said presiding Judge Peter Tober, stressing that the girl had been taken "solely for the sexual gratification" of others and tortured.

Prosecutors indicated that Volz and his cronies subjected the child to "a vortex of darkness."

Volz was convicted for the sexual torture of his young daughter and sentenced in May 2022 to serve a quarter-century in prison.

Despite having his male genitals fully intact, the New Jersey Department of Corrections classified Volz as a "female."

He is presently serving his sentence at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Union Township along with fellow transvestic child-rapist, Adam Romero.

The lawsuit

Volz's lawsuit alleges that Joy Lynch, head of religious services at Edna Mahan, has denied him various essential religious items, including a witch's cloak.

The brown, hoodless cloak is one of the personal and congregate religious items attributed to wiccans by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Other items include: the "Book of Shadows"; a "diviniation tool"; pentacles; pentagrams; rune cards; salt; and chalices.

The suit also complains that other "religious items have been implicitly denied, because [Lynch] refuses to approve a vendor by which the Wiccan population as a whole may fairly obtain their religious items from source of sale."

While a selection of witchcraft paraphernalia is permitted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections' Internal Management Procedures, state regulations state that only the prison chaplain or a volunteer religious group leader can bring ritualistic items into the facility and store them, reported MyCentralJersey.com.

Even if the transvestic pedophile received his desired accoutrement, the prison might be able to restrict his diabolic practice somewhat to ensure the "maintenance of a safe, secure, and orderly operation of a correctional facility," according to the 2019 NJDOC resource guide.

Volz's lawsuit suggests the prison has already applied some limits in a discriminatory fashion.

The child rapist suggested that prior to Dec. 21, 2022, he was "denied the ability to hold corporate worship during appropriate times of day, despite other religious groups being able to worship at those same appropriate times of day that have been requested."

The suit insinuates that the alleged discrepancy "could be viewed by the community as a form of proselytizing because it encourages participation in some religious groups by incentivizing conversion to those religions," singling out the prison's Jewish population as recipients of alleged unfair favor.

The child rapist seeks $9,950 in compensatory damages, stressing the alleged discrimination has left him with "anxiety due to a lack of information, emotional stress, time loss, uncertainty and resultant planning difficulty for religious holy days and sacraments."

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11 adults in Scotland formed demonic 'paedo ring' which routinely raped and assaulted 3 children, performed witchcraft, killed animals: Report



Eleven adults in Scotland have been arrested and charged with various horrific crimes related to a so-called "paedo ring" that they allegedly ran for 10 years.

Iain Owens, 43, Elaine Lannery, 38, Lesley Williams, 40, Paul Brannan, 40, Marianne Gallagher, 37, Scott Forbes, 49, Barry Watson, 46, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 44, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, all of the greater-Glasgow area, were brought before the High Court in Glasgow to face charges related to crimes they allegedly committed against three children, two girls and one boy, between January 2010 and March 2020.

The indictment claims that, at various times, six of the defendants shoved the younger female "into a microwave oven, an oven, a fridge, a freezer and cupboards including a cupboard containing an electricity meter.” They also supposedly hanged the girl on a hook by her sweater.

All eleven have been accused of repeatedly raping all three children. During some of the sexual assaults, other defendants would supposedly "clap, cheer and verbally encourage" as they filmed the rapes. At least two of the adults also allegedly engaged in sexual acts in front of the children.

Aside from the sexual assault charges, the defendants have also been accused of forcing the children to participate in satanic "seances" and compelling them to "use a Ouija board ... to call on spirits and demons." The children were also supposedly made to watch "classes involving witchcraft, point wands and utter spells thus causing them to believe that they could levitate."

The accused also occasionally wore devilish costumes and blew smoke from various drugs into the children's faces.

Other charges leveled at the defendants involve the abuse and torture of animals. Some of the adults have been accused of forcing the children to kill dogs and forcing the boy to stab a bird to death. One of the girls was also supposedly made "to act like a dog" and "eat cat and dog food" until she vomited.

There are yet still more charges issued against the defendants, but these charges are apparently so heinous that writers at the Scottish Sun refused to print them.

The identities of the children have not been released, and it is not known whether any of the children are related to any of the accused. There were 16 or 17 total adults named in the indictment, but anywhere from three to five of them have already died.

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