Tish Owen, a Nashville witch and hypnotherapist with 20 years of experience, blends magic with global activism—like her full-moon ritual to end religious persecution—while debunking commercialized past-life claims (e.g., her work for Dell was just trade show readings). She distinguishes spells (pink candles for love), hexes (short-term harm), and curses (generational, fueled by hate), citing the Bell Witch legend’s lingering negative energy. Callers seek protection from indigo children or psychic family traits, while Owen advises countering rumors with salt, cloves, and frozen water. Magic’s power, she insists, depends on intent—not belief—challenging skepticism with quantum theories and trauma-resolution techniques. [Automatically generated summary]
Sometimes, occasionally, at about, I don't know, 6 o'clock, 6.15, whatever, I will doze off on the couch, right?
You know, you get those, you ever notice that in the middle of the day, you get a little sort of a little dip and then you come back up again.
And anyway, that's the middle of my day.
So I did.
I dozed off.
And I guess it was around 7 o'clock, and Aaron said, wake up, Daddy.
So my eight-year-old Asia came over, not in position, and pushed me as hard as she could.
Wake up, Daddy!
And she thought it was the funniest thing she ever saw in her life, as, of course, I nearly, you know, had a malfunction of my body, right?
Oh, God, she scared me.
Anyway, you also may have noticed that all day long, if you watch CNN, if you subject yourself to that, all day long they've been playing an endless loop of this young, unfortunate 16-year-old girl in school who gets yanked out of her chair by a cop.
Apparently, she had refused to yield her cell phone.
And it escalated to that, right?
And there's a big argument.
Cop might get fired now.
And she got dragged across the floor.
It was pretty bad, you know, slammed in handcuffs, I guess, on her belly by this big cop.
And they've been just playing it to death, as they do with whatever they get their teeth into.
Anyway, we were eating dinner, and I was reflecting on still being alive after awakening that way.
And Asia has a seat that can see the TV in the background.
Sound was down, but CNN was playing this thing again and again of this girl getting ripped out of, you know, in the classroom, right?
Ripped out of the chair, drug along the floor, and then handcuffs slammed on.
And she got real serious, and she looked at me, and she said, Dad, what did she do?
And I said, well, I just didn't say anything for a second.
I looked at her real seriously, and I said, misspelled a word.
Man, you should have seen her face.
Ah, karma.
Some of the stuff we're going to be talking about tonight.
I am really concerned and worried.
Oh, wait.
I have a couple of stations to welcome to the network tonight.
I would like to welcome WHKTAM in Norfolk, Virginia.
And I assume that's the way you say it, right?
1650 a.m. in Norfolk, Virginia.
I hope that's the way you say it.
If I live there, I would not like people to call it Norfolk.
It's Norfolk, right?
Anyway, if you're from the area, somebody will call me from there and let me know.
Also, KBRCAM in Mount Vernon, Washington, 14.30 a.m.
Okay, that is the refrain beginning to get signaled from the United States.
It looks as though our president, who was completely, absolutely against the idea of more boots in Iraq or Syria, is now seemingly changing his mind, I guess because of ISIS.
But you have to consider the soup in Syria for you to understand how incredibly dangerous this is.
And I do agree, we may have to have boots on the ground in Syria if we're going to have any real effect.
But you've got Assad, right?
Then you've got the rebels trying to overthrow Assad, right?
Then you've got the Russians who are on the side of the government, Assad, and they're bombing the rebels for the most part, right?
Helping us to death.
Meanwhile, we're trying to help, well, all kinds of people.
We're trying to help anybody fighting, and it's not many, by the way, ISIS.
And, of course, in Iraq, we're trying to help the Kurds.
And the whole thing is a dangerous mixture that could explode into World War III.
When you have American planes, and we're talking about a no-fly zone, too, American planes and Russian planes, you know, splitting wingtips, somebody's going to let loose with a missile, and something is going to go horribly, horribly wrong.
So there you have it.
That's my opinion.
I think it's dangerous.
And here's some more dangerous stuff.
Our U.S. Navy sailed a warship, and it's a good thing we did, past one of China's big artificial islands.
Have you seen those in the South China Sea on Tuesday?
I have a question for you.
If you build an island where there was not an island before, does that make it, well, in this case, I guess, not a new country, but otherwise, if you put an island where there was not an island before, is it real?
Can you call it a country?
Can you hoist a flag, threaten to attack the U.S., and make, you know, get foreign aid?
Anyway, this is no joke, really, is in the Spratly Islands, claimed this section by the Philippines.
And what they did is they went to kind of a high sand dune, I guess, and built an island.
It's pretty big.
So we sent a Navy warship with our flag sailing by.
They warned us, said, get away from our airspace.
They claimed 12 miles.
Can you claim 12 miles around an artificial island?
I think it's a good question.
Because is it really there?
The only reason it's sticking out of the water is because a bunch of Chinese went out there and built it up, right?
The Cassini spacecraft is about to get an icy shower.
It is going to do something really interesting.
It's going to go right through frozen particles that are erupting from the south pole in Cletus, one of the moons, one of Saturn's many moons, actually.
And it's going to go through frozen moisture.
Now, it's going fast, 19,000 miles an hour.
So it's going to go through it really quickly.
Nevertheless, it's dangerous.
Hopefully it makes it through.
One more item from the anomalist.
It seems that cosmonauts, Russians, got more than their fair share of anomalous experiences while orbiting Earth in the early years of the Russian space program as we learn more, as reports come out of Russia that we didn't get before.
Everything from seeing a disappearing island, I like that one, in the Indian Ocean, as they watched, to even stranger accounts of bizarre occurrences they called the Space Whisperer.
All right, so coming up in a moment, we have Tish Owen.
In 1991, Tish Owen opened the Goddess and the Moon, a metaphysical shop in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
Country music stars Taylor Swift, Reba McIntyre, Keith Urban, and Tricia Yearwood have had her perform at divination parties.
How about that?
The Atlantic City Tourism Board, Showtime Network, Dell Computers, and many more have hired her for readings as well.
And, you know, as I read this, I wondered, what did Dell want with her?
And did Showtime put a curse on HBO?
Dell Computers, who knows what they might have been up to.
Anyway, she's been a fixture at Cheryl Kenyon Romance and Fiction Writer Conventions, really?
On November 2nd, she will appear at the A ⁇ E show Cursed, in a five-part program about the Bell Witch, nice name, huh?
Who is a local legend?
Tish has appeared on radio TV, been featured in magazines and newspapers, writes, and is editor of Green Egg Magazine, the oldest pagan magazine in the country.
She is also a host on Green Egg Radio.
Tish is a practicing witch and has been for 20 years.
She has performed at a pagan church, serving pagans in religion and life.
She is the coordinator for Pagan Unity Festival, a four-day event in Middle Tennessee that is 18 years old and draws people from all over the country.
Pagan authors, practitioners of magic, we're going to be asking about that.
Music and workshops fill the weekend.
This happens every May.
Tish also coordinates Spirit Fest, a metaphysical event that is now in its fifth year and happens every October.
She was part of the response to my request for a spellcasting, cauldron stirring, and so forth and so on, which you get the idea, right?
So we'll see about Trish in just a moment.
Tish Owens' picture is, well, it wouldn't make your blood run cold, but it may, depending on what kind of fifth-grade teacher you had.
And so before I came home to come and talk to you, I participated in full moon ritual.
And what we did in ritual tonight was we have a list.
We have a working list.
And we also have on Facebook we have a page that is about changing the world through magic, and we think that because we are witches and we know how to tap in to the power and to utilize it, that we can create change in the world.
And so, for the next two weeks, we're working on ending religious persecution.
We actually made a list of things that we would like to go away, and we kind of put the energy into it and lit it on fire and threw it in the cauldron.
And you can, we have a little more bells and whistles because we have cauldrons, but you can utilize the energy to affect change, to bend things to your will, to make things better or to make things happier.
Okay, so let me just say that when you are bending someone to your will, you are very probably bending them against their own free will, which is a very difficult thing to do.
You better make sure you want to do it.
And I've seen people do a love spell.
You think that's a pretty innocuous, fairly simple thing.
But a girl I knew did a love spell, and she absolutely would not be talked out of it.
And then it took her three years to get rid of the guy once she figured out she really didn't want him.
The thing about doing any kind of magic spell is magic, once you fire it and let go of it, can go in three or four different directions, several of which you didn't intend, one of which might be downright pleasant, and one which might actually work.
Yeah, but okay, I'm going to lay the same thing that I have on other witches on you.
If somebody's coming after you, Trish, and when I say coming after you, I mean, I don't know, stalking you, maybe trying to break into your place and knife you or choke you to death, or, you know, coming as if somebody's coming after you and you had to use witchcraft to go after, you know, I mean, a good defense is a very good offense, right?
So if you had to go after them to do something to them in that extreme circumstance, could that be done?
When somebody does something to you or hurts you or screws you or, you know, now somebody is coming after me to hurt me now in this immediate moment and they're running toward me.
I did some experiments, and I'm going to only bore you for a second, audience, years ago on another show in another universe, far, far away.
I got involved with the university, Princeton, that's doing this experiment, and they set up an experiment with me.
Then, Trish, I went far beyond that, and I began to attempt to control the weather in locations, and I did so successfully time and time again.
And these weren't the wussy kind of changes.
These were areas that had no prediction of rain and needed it desperately, that kind of thing.
And we actually created rain.
It was astounding.
I was working with millions of minds intent on one thing.
So I don't know anything about how intent works, except I did a total of 10 or 12 experiments, about 10, I think, including one for somebody who's very, very ill, couple, actually, and those worked as well.
So I got to the point where it began to scare me.
For one thing, I thought no single person should have that much power.
And for another, people were suggesting to me that I try and move a hurricane, which I thought, boy, could that go the wrong way.
I'll move it back out to sea.
It'll get more strength and then really hit.
And then, you know, in other words, unintended consequences.
And that's something that can happen with what you do for your work, right?
Do you think it matters or makes a difference if there is one mind projecting strong intent about something or there are millions of minds projecting the same intent at the same time?
Yes, because there's strength in numbers, I believe.
I feel like there is.
And on a small scale, talking about the weather, because we have a festival that we do in May.
And in May in Tennessee, you can have anything.
You can have straight-line winds.
You can have tornadoes.
You can have beautiful, sunny 80 degrees.
You can freeze to death.
I mean, it runs the gamut.
But what you would prefer not to have is the kind of rain that we sometimes get.
And so if you put a bunch of people with the same mindset, and they have to have the same exact same idea, or it works much better if they do, of moving this storm, just gently moving it so that it would split around us.
And it did.
Not just once.
We've been doing the Pagan Unity Festival for 18, coming up on 19 years, and we've done it many times.
You could move the storm into an area with a higher concentration of moisture in the air or more preheating, and instead of being a storm that now misses your festival or whatever it is, it becomes a tornado and comes down and destroys 50 mobile homes.
In a strange turn of events, the Taliban have encouraged aid groups to help victims of the massive earthquake in northern Afghanistan as rescuers struggle to form a clear picture of the damage.
With large mountainous areas of Afghanistan hit and icy weather closing in, the unstable security situation has posed a major challenge to international aid groups that have been repeatedly targeted by insurgents.
The Taliban, which have driven their Islamist campaign against the Western-backed government in Kabul across the country this year, indicated that they would not stand in the way of aid efforts and ordered fighters to help victims.
The 7.5 magnitude earthquake, with its epicenter striking rural Afghanistan, brought catastrophic damages to multiple territories and neighboring Asian countries on Monday.
In a 74-21 vote, the Senate has voted to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, a bill that privacy advocates have long argued will quietly give the government invasive spying powers.
The House has already passed similar legislation, and the two versions will now enter a conference committee to be reconciled before being sent on to President Obama.
A series of amendments for the bill were introduced on Tuesday that would have altered some of the most controversial parts, but those were ultimately voted down.
Fight for the Future, a digital rights advocacy group, said in a statement.
This vote will go down in history as the moment that lawmakers decided not only what sort of internet our children and our children's children will have, but what sort of world they will live in.
Under the bill, companies would be encouraged to silently share security information with the Department of Homeland Security and ultimately other government agencies.
Still, civil rights groups and tech companies have argued that the terms of such agreements are vague and give broadly a way for companies to share information with the feds without accountability.
According to The Verge, President Obama has already tentatively given his support for the legislation.
Read more about this breaking story concerning the privacy of consumer information on TheVerge.com.
A deer, apparently hit by a car, brought itself to a New York hospital and walked into an emergency room.
Officials say that the deer walked through the automatic doors at the entrance to Strong Memorial Hospital's emergency room late Monday afternoon in Rochester.
Officials also say that the deer made it about 20 feet down a corridor before staff members corralled it.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says that two deputies happened to be at the hospital when the deer wandered in.
They and hospital public safety officers then strapped the deer to a gurney and wheeled it out to the parking lot.
Sadly, though, authorities decided to ultimately put the deer down.
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This has been Amy Martin for Dark Matter Network News.
It takes an awful lot of work, concerted effort, the willingness to put aside your moral compass and take whatever karma comes from you or comes to you.
They're for jobs and houses and cars and monies and that your dog won't die and that your next-door neighbor will stop, I don't know, cutting his branches and throwing them in your yard, whatever.
And I think that, you know, that kind of does lend itself to the kind of magic that would be baneful that you would be willing to take the hit for, to stop these people.
Just kind of the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz, a little paranoid about fire.
And I agree with you.
But this is something, this one issue, religious persecution, we have several hundred and getting people more all the time on this Facebook group.
And we say, here's what we're working on.
Here's how you need to visualize it.
But also, write your letters, send your emails, because I really believe you have to do, you use energy to put a thing in motion, but then you have to do something practical.
So in other words, if you have Bernie Sanders wins the election, that's good, and you can do energy, but you have to vote for him.
The more, the better, and the more people putting energy into it.
You know, once upon a time, when I was a young Catholic girl, and the nuns would tell us, if you want something, if you need something, you should besiege heaven with your prayer.
All right, so I imagine the young girl besieging heaven for something or another.
And then I wonder if this same young girl trained in witchcraft, in the very most powerful, darkest part of witchcraft, could, instead of besieging, you know, up there, besiege whatever it is that you witches besiege, and which would be the more effective?
Let us say that you issue the horrible twitching death thing on somebody, and then, of course, you're going to have to contemplate the karmic consequences.
Is there anything you can do to mitigate these consequences?
Can you set up a defense that will make perhaps what comes back at you not as painful?
But if you've set it up and you set this in motion, you, then I don't know that you can defend from it.
And then I'll tell you this, that a lot of people who do things, not killing people with horrible twitching deaths, but you know, things that are very, very negative against other people may not believe it that there's karma or may not realize that there's karma until it's too late.
But I did have a conversation, not really a conversation, but with one of the guys that was really castigating me and us on what we were doing, that we were turning the park, turning it into something else other than what it was supposed to be.
I'm not really sure.
I thought it was for the people.
And I said, you know, I tell you what, I'm willing to bet on which of us can get to your boss on Monday morning first.
Because I'm going to bet it's me.
And I wrote a really very hot letter, which ended up on the desk of the commissioner of the parks.
And we had a meeting about it.
And I ended up teaching a class to the Rangers about what we were, what we did, and that we're not devil worshipers.
And it ended up being very interesting, but really scary.
And the thing about, I think, too, the difference between a hex and a curse.
And a hex is just hoping that something really terrible happens.
And curses are more long-lived.
Like, we've got the whole legend of the bell witch and the land is cursed and the descendants are cursed.
And so a curse has a whole lot more ramifications of it than, but I mean, people come in, because I own a shop and people come into me on a regular basis to sit down and say to them, to me, I need to know if there's a curse on me.
There are so many different directions that that comes from, but basically the legend is there was a woman whose name was Kate Batts, who was a neighbor of John Bell.
John Bell being very wealthy and had, you know, a bazillion acres that he got in a land grant, I think.
And there was either, A, they had a bad land deal between them, although there's no record of it.
B, they had an affair and he jilted her.
Again, there's no record of it.
Or something else.
And that she was a witch and she put a curse on him and cursed not only John Bell, but members of his family forever and ever ad infinitum ad nauseum.
And John Bell did become sick, but you know, you have to look at, look at everything that there was, I mean, cholera.
I mean, I'll give you a list of people you can call them.
And they'll say, yeah, it was kind of crazy.
And so we started, you know, you start simply.
You open the doors or windows or whatever, and you burn sage, which isn't, of course, Native American, and you do it in a counterclockwise fashion, and you try and chase out whatever it is.
And you use sweet grass to bring in good vibes and good energy.
And, you know, we, because in some forms of paganism, Wicca, you call quarters and you ask for guardians to come and to protect the space and you fill it with white light.
And we did it and we did it and we did it and we did it for about two weeks.
Before it became, before it started to feel normal again.
So whatever you think or don't think or believe or don't believe, those guys have been out there tromping around.
They had picked up whatever.
This is whatever this entity, whatever it is, this energy, this whatever, does not particularly like to be dealt with or revealed or the light shined upon it.
Okay, because Adams, Tennessee is a Liberty town in Tennessee, and obviously, and there's not a lot of commerce there.
There's not a lot of industry there.
It has a very adorable little square.
You would think for something as phenomenal and as wide-reaching, there's two or three shows on right now about the Bell Witch, that they'd have Bell Witch Day.
they would rebuild the old John Bell place and give tours.
They would have shops on the square that would sell witch stuff.
Because usually hexes and spells are for a specific purpose, like right now.
And if you get mad at somebody and your boyfriend and he didn't do you right and you want to put a hex on him and have him not ever be able to have sex again or whatever.
If this were a long time ago and you were up on a tube before hoisted above a bunch of burning stuff and you were about to be burned to death as a witch.
But I mean, there's legends of Irish curses that were put on Cromwell and the House of Orange that there's all that emotion, almost the death throes, that if they took everything and they killed everything and they even killed the dog.
And, you know, there's so much anger and emotion put into that.
And so, you know, you, words are, why do you think that in all the books and all the movies and all the stories that the wizards had magic words?
I think it's the only thing that logically makes sense.
I think that to be created and walk this earth and all we get is a four score in 10 and that's it is not logical.
A logical being who set things in motion, as I believe there is, would not, it's just not logical.
And you can't learn in 70 years or 80 years or my mother's 98, so however many years you have, you can't learn all the things that you need to learn.
You can't understand How, under all circumstances, that we treat people well, that racism is bad, that all those things, you can't have all the experiences, you can't learn everything you need to learn in 70 years or 80 years or even 98 years.
I do, besides Bill Witch, I do have somebody that I know who is absolutely convinced, and we go back to Ireland and we go back to Cromwell, and historically, looking up the documents, her family actually, and they were Irish and they actually helped Cromwell, and they were cursed by the wise woman in the village as it burned.
And I've never seen in my life anybody that has as bad luck as she does.
And then I have another friend who feels like she has one, again, a family, and she's taken steps to get rid of it and has people helping her work on it.
So, because, I mean, everything can be undone, except being dead, and then you come back anyway.
I mean, you take somebody back and then you take them back, I guess, just a little too far, and suddenly they're talking about what seems to be another life.
And actually, in some cases, Tish, they actually give details of that prior life that can be verified.
It's convincing to me because, and you'll hear people, and I've heard people say, oh, doing regressions is just, you know, stupid because everybody will say, everybody says they're famous.
Everybody is, you know, Anne Boleyn.
Everybody is whoever.
Ivan the Terrible.
And I have found that to not be true.
And I've done in 24 years hundreds of regressions.
I love the vicariously living through other people.
And for me, we're not just going on a tourist trip.
I send them back to the lifetime that they most need to see, that has the most information for them, that allows them to fix some things that are going on in the here and now lifetime.
Reference to karma or reference to patterns that you didn't know were there.
Wow.
And so to send them back into, and then to watch them when they come out and go, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
And so one of my absolute favorites was a girl, and I sent her back to the lifetime she needed to see.
And so she's describing to me that, oh, she's a little girl, and she's skipping down the road, and her hair's in big tails, and she has on Sunday clothes, and her parents are walking behind her, probably in the 20s, maybe.
And they're on their way to church.
It's a beautiful sunny day.
And a car comes up from behind them and like scoots around, or not scoots around, but swerves around the parents and hit the child and killed the child.
And so I said to her, because it's very helpful to see how you die, to help you process what's going on.
And she would say, oh, it really hurt.
I really hurt.
And I said, I want you to leave your body and I want you to walk over to the car because the man then hit a fence pole after he was drunk from the night before, which was early Sunday morning, still drunk.
And he hit the fence pole and I said, I want you to walk over and look at him.
And she said, oh, I think he's dead too.
I said, okay, and I want you to understand and to be able to identify if you, in the here and now lifetime, know this man.
And we can talk about it when you, you know, when you come back.
And she said, she, so when she got done, and I brought her out of trance, and she said, she was in foster care, and she was 10 years old before she was adopted.
The family into which she was adopted, the grandfather was the man.
And I get chills talking about it, was the man that ran over her.
And she said, he made me everything I am.
He taught me everything I know.
He waited for me.
And I mean, I was just blunt.
Right here, I got chills running up and down my arms right now, just recanting that story.
This is an area of intense interest to me, this regression into prior lives.
So is it possible that a person under hypnosis, under such conditions, especially seeking you out and wanting this, has a preconception of what their prior life was?
And I guess I'm saying, is there any way for you to be sure that when they're under, they're telling you the truth?
So I'm going to get really spooky now because I'm seeing what they're telling.
I'm seeing it.
I've only had one person lie to me.
I knew she was lying.
I've only ever had two people that I couldn't get under, but psyche and spirit knows.
So when you're in trance, and it's a very light trance, and I always say you're in charge of it, you're in control, you can wake up at any time, blah, blah.
Spirit knows.
And so what I am saying to you and you're under, you're going to the lifetime that has the most meaning, that has the most bearing, the lifetime that you need to see, the lifetime where there are answers, the lifetime where you will find out what it is that you need to know to make improvements in your here and now lifetime.
And I've seen people be really surprised at who they were, where they lived.
The only person that I can ever remember doing that was quasi-famous, and you had to know history, because he was the British commander, the English commander on Sterling Bridge, who always, and all of the re, and he did reenactment, he always dressed as a Scotsman.
As I started to get interested in this 20 years ago, I listened to a tape that a fellow brought me where there was a bunch of people, and they were just playing around, and they knew just enough to be dangerous.
And they put him under with no guidelines.
When I put you under, you're safe.
You can open your eyes at any time.
Nothing can hurt you.
You're only observing it.
It's like looking at a movie.
So on, so on, so on.
He had none of those going in.
He went into a lifetime where a lot of people got killed because he was having sex in the barn with somebody and wasn't at his post watching.
I listened to 45 minutes of him sobbing and people saying, you need to come back.
You need to come back.
How do we get him back?
We need to come.
It made the hair of my head stand up.
And it made me so angry I wanted to slap all those people.
And so there has to be, there must be safeguards because you are in there in somebody's psyche.
I mean, they got him back eventually, but it was such a traumatizing event that we sat and talked about it on very numerous occasions and how it affected him.
And so what I was able to do was to walk him through the life choices he had made in this lifetime based on that lifetime.
Police in Russia's Far East stopped a hearse speeding on a highway, only to find half a ton of caviar stashed inside.
The Interior Ministry's department said on Tuesday that the hearse was caught speeding on the road connecting to a city not far from the Chinese border further to the north.
When officers asked the driver to open the car, they saw plastic containers with caviar hidden under the wreaths lying next to the casket.
More caviar was found inside the casket, which did not contain a body.
The driver and his partner, who both worked for a funeral director, told the police that they had been hired by a man in a village who had asked them to take the casket with the body of a female relative to the city morgue.
The men insisted that they had no idea what was inside the casket.
Police are looking into the source of the caviar and considering charges for illegal production and distribution.
Caviar production in Russia is strictly regulated and contained to about 50 sturgeon farms.
Wild caviar production and sturgeon fishing is almost entirely banned, except for indigenous peoples of Russia's north who have to obtain permits.
Sturgeon populations in the Caspian Sea have shrunk dramatically since the fall of the Soviet Union because of illegal fishing.
A Salem, Massachusetts woman who calls herself a witch priestess is taking a self-proclaimed warlock to court over accusations of harassment.
Lori Sporsa, who runs a Salem witchcraft shop and leads a pagan church, filed for court-ordered protection against harassment from Christian Day, whose website calls him, quote, the world's best-known warlock.
Sporsa accused Day of harassing her online and over the phone for three whole years.
The two will meet in court on Wednesday, and a lawyer representing Day declined to comment.
Day owns an occult shop in Salem, in New Orleans, according to his website.
His lawyer said he lives in Louisiana.
The 75-year-old Sforsa accuses Day, 45, of repeatedly calling her late at night from a private number and swearing at her.
Sforsa, who goes by the business name Lori Bruno, also alleges Day made malicious posts about her on social media.
Sforsa and Day were also apparently once business associates in Salem.
They made headlines together in 2011 when they cast spells to try to heal actor Charlie Sheen, who called himself a, quote, Vatican assassin warlock during an interview on national television.
Salem's Festival of the Dead, which culminates in the official Salem Witches Halloween ball on Halloween night, was created by Day in 2003 and has expanded to include a psychic and witchcraft fair and a seance.
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This has been Amy Martin for Dark Matter Network News.
Well, I think that it helps the mystique of witches being old and scary and living at the end of the lane in the deep woods and doing potions and curses and whatnot.
And so, you know, to be ugly and have warts and moles, but yeah, it's not a wart.
She's getting help elsewhere, but so for Cromwell, so the person that I know who was a member of a family who actually aided and abetted Cromwell's nefariousness in Ireland,
the whole family was cursed, and they were cursed by, legend says, an old woman, an old medicine woman who did herbs and cures and potions, and she may have had a wart.
I don't know.
That's not part of the legend.
But that you and your family and generations will be cursed from now until forever.
And, you know, I would say, and a lot of times when you see curses, especially in Hollywood and on television, they're always killing something.
They kill a chicken.
But since Cromwell had killed everything, there wasn't anything left to kill.
So there wasn't an animal sacrifice made for that particular curse, but it was made with blood and guts and anger and emotion and hatred.
We actually make for our shop, we actually make our own candles that we put the correct oils for what we're trying to create.
We put a stone in each one of the candles, and they're reikied with energy for their particular purpose.
There's also a label, and on the back of the label is an incantation.
So, you know, typically pink is for love, and white is for protection, and black is for banishing, and green is for money, and purple is to open your third eye and to do meditation.
Brown is for animals, if you're doing something for your animals.
Yellow is for power and energy.
Orange would, you'd use it for sexual energy.
So, I mean, pretty traditional list.
It's not rocket science, but these are the colors that correspond to the particular things that you're trying to create.
Okay, so first of all, maybe we should explain the indigo children, which theoretically, there's a lot of people that are coming in that are incarnating because we really need them to be enlightened and to help us to go forward as a species and not blow ourselves up.
So, and I think I got that right.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Protection spell.
So, I would tell you to do this.
I would tell you to go and get, you might have to look for this, but a black bag, a little black bag, a little satin black bag, hemlock, which is hard to find, but it's very effective, clove, some salt, a piece of jet, stone.
Zip it up, tie it up, don't ever open it, put it over your door.
Is it possible to be a Catholic, let's say, a practicing Catholic, and listening to this show, realize that something you say does work and give it a try without having to, gosh, I don't know, unload and confession the next week.
I think that there are, I will quite frankly tell you that the number of people that come into my establishment, they're not all pagans.
There's a lot of Baptists and some Catholics and whatever else because they are desperate for an answer.
And so they'll burn a candle or they'll do some incense or they'll do a spell.
And I don't think that it's, I'll tell you a story.
I had a girl that worked for me.
Remember I'm in the South.
I had a girl that worked for me and she was of mixed heritage.
But she had been raised in Kansas.
And so she was raised around white people.
And so she worked for me on the weekends, on Saturdays, very intelligent girl, as a matter of fact, is now in medical school.
And so we were there one day, and a bunch of little old ladies, and when I tell you little old ladies, I mean 60s and 70s little old ladies.
And they were little African-American ladies.
And they came in and they wanted some of this and they wanted some of that and they wanted some, you know, we're going to put pepper in his shoes and we're going to do this, all of these different things that they needed for spell work and candles and some oils.
And can you make me an oil to, you know, to make this guy go away or to make my daughter's boyfriend leave or whatever.
So, you know, we spent about an hour making stuff and doing stuff.
And so they left and I stepped outside and I was sitting on the front porch indulging in a bad habit.
And so this girl's about 16, 17.
She came out and she said, can I ask you a question?
I said, sure.
And she says, all those ladies that just came in and bought stuff, they're not pagan, are they?
I said, no, sweetheart, they're Baptist.
And she said, I don't understand.
And I said, in the South, there's a lot of people who really see no difference in the world or no difficulty in doing a spell on Saturday night and going and singing a choir on Sunday.
All right, so then you're not above, if somebody comes to you and tells you, I don't know what kind of story, you know, some sad, scary story that puts you on their side and they want a spell to cause somebody else great grief, you're not beyond telling them how to do it.
I'm working with you too, and I'd love to swap stories.
And I got a note because I checked Facebook in the break from the editor of Green Egg, and she said to remind everybody that Green Egg is 47 years old.
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That's right.
That's right.
And my husband used to be one of the original editors.
And he actually helped establish the Church of All Worlds, which started Green Egg magazine.
It's not midnight because, and that's what people always think it's the witching hour, but actually, when the sun, before the sun comes up, so dusk and dawn, because you are literally between the worlds at that moment.
It's not daylight, nor is it dark.
You are between the worlds.
So if you're going to do whatever you're going to do, that's time to do it.
She was terrified of us when we moved in, which is kind of funny when you think about it.
So she was afraid of us because she was afraid we would send her on, and she was scared to go.
So our deal with her is, don't scare the customers, and we won't send you on, which we didn't, and she didn't, and we had a very happy, she's still there, by the way, because nobody has sent her on.
And so, and then too, and I don't know the answer to this.
Pardon me, but I'll throw it out there anyway.
In my family, when someone in my family passes, my grandfather shows up to take them to the other side.
And so I guess my question is, everybody doesn't have that.
They don't all have this patriarch that comes and shows up and goes, come on, it's this way.
You're going to be fine.
He, for everyone that has died in our family, he showed up.
So there wasn't any confusion or I'm lost, but violent death and sudden death, very often they're so confused about the situation that they're kind of stuck.
They're kind of lost.
And so, yeah, it's a matter of, you know, sometimes they just need a little push in the right direction.
So you've expressed that reincarnation or you believe in reincarnation.
And it's a general consensus that psychic ability is something that you inherit from your parents.
So my question is, if you've been reincarnated and you do take things from your past life across to your next one, how come everyone is at sort of a different or a skewed psychic ability position at the moment?
I think that many people are afraid of it or they don't know it or they don't know what it is or they kind of blow themselves off, you know, like, oh, I knew I shouldn't have turned there.
I knew that.
I did anyway.
And I think that in my particular life, it was very convenient that I had a grandmother who was extremely psychic.
And so I was not raised thinking it was weird or that it was different or that it was bad.
And so I feel like because of that, I could expand more as far as my psychic gifts.
But I think that everybody is a little different.
You know, like I was just talking about my daughter who really does have an affinity.
She says dead people love her.
And so she has an affinity that not everybody has.
I occasionally can see dead people.
I can certainly hear them and feel them.
She can just see them standing there.
She has more talent in that.
And there's different kinds of, you know, there's clairaudient and there's clairvoyance.
And so you see them or you hear them or you smell things that nobody else does.
I know that my grandmother was very psychic and she didn't discourage me and she would, you know, and she would, when I would say, oh, I knew that was going to happen, she would say, and isn't it wonderful that you knew that?
So I've got that kind of encouragement and I've encouraged my own children to not be afraid of it.
And so whether it's genetic or environmental, and maybe both, maybe both.
Oh, and just with reincarnation, and we did mention how there's plenty of new souls about.
I actually had an earlier thought that kind of makes a little bit of sense to me.
If we put sort of a quantum mechanics kind of spin on it, objects can be in multiple places at once, but once observed, they're only in a single location.
So if you're having multiple lives, potentially you're experiencing them at once, but your consciousness is only at one point in time.
Hi, I would just like to know, is there a possibility of finding out someone who could help with the hypnotherapy that you were talking about earlier in the location here where I live?
You know, you go to the wrong person, and you'll get a call like at midnight or something, and there'll be a keyword said, and you'll be doing a naked dance in the middle of town square.
Right, but that's why you give all the prehypnotics and post-hypnotics coming in and out.
And a lot of times, if there was a reason or that somebody made you die for whatever reason, then I think it is beneficial to see why that happened and what to do next or how to resolve it.
But if you were a guy with a sword and you were fighting for the king and you got blown up by a treasure.
What is it?
Anyway, somebody dropped a rock on your head.
Then I don't know that it's beneficial, but it might give you an idea of why you're afraid of rocks falling out of the sky.
I can't imagine why there would be because, you know, no matter what, you can't be fearful that you're not going to come back to your body because you're going to snap back into your body.
And a lot of times, when you're doing it, when you're doing it out of body, you snap back into your body too soon.
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You're like, oh man, yeah, my thing, I think Art felt this too.
Like, I used to think they were garbage, started listening to a couple shows Art's done on it, and then all of a sudden I'll wake up and I'm at that state where there's a vibration and I get freaked out and I'm like, whoa.
And I, you know, I get freaked out and I somehow pull, you know, call it off.
But it's a practice for doing exactly that for out of body.
And so there were some, you know, I had some friends over.
What do you do on Saturday night?
Well, we practice trying to get out of our bodies.
Most people play cards and eat pizza.
So we were doing it.
We said, okay, let's go to a place.
Let's use all these techniques to go to a place that we agree on.
Well, in those days, I was on 2nd Avenue, which is in downtown Nashville, or my shop was, and we stayed open until midnight because the tourists warranted being open until midnight.
And so we did, and we just kind of, you know, visualize ourselves there.
And I had a bird in the, I've always had a bird in the shop.
So I had a bird, and we kind of freaked the bird out.
So the bird is, you know, carrying on.
And so a few minutes later, we came back and we're like, okay.
And I saw her and she's wearing a black dress.
It's kind of short.
So we were comparing notes on what we had seen.
And the phone rang, and it was the girl that worked at my shop until midnight who called to say, what had you done?
And so, you know, from a logical point of view, which I'm not really a logical person, even though I am a triple Virgo, but my logic says, okay, the universe will take care of it.
You don't need to get revenge, you know.
And so, you know, why do you want to throw yourself under that bus?
So, but love and money, absolutely.
But more, people come to me who have been hurt and they just want to understand why this other person hurt them.
You are, we started at the very beginning of the show.
You are dealing with somebody else's free will.
And so it's very, very difficult.
You know, you can do a whole lot of stuff for yourself because it's you and you're working on it.
But to try and bend somebody else to where you want them to go is more difficult.
And then my question, always, always, do you want to live with a person knowing that the only reason they're with you is because you did a spell and the relationship is false?
Eventually, you know, it's like if you put a bucket of water in a metal bucket and it's fine for a long time, but eventually the seams are going to give and it's going to come out.
So sooner or later, the free will is going to resurface.
I mean, I guess unless you did a spell every full moon to keep whatever you've got going on continuing to go on, which I think that's feasible.
All right, first of all, you're five miles away from the microphone, so whatever it is you're using, find the little pinhole microphone and get really close to it to talk to us, okay?
So in other words, you're not going to do it for them, but you will provide them with the things and the instructions to put themselves in that position if that is absolutely what they want.
From science fiction to reality, a team of researchers in the UK have built a sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.
Researchers who have now built the working tractor beam say that it uses high-amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram which can pick up and move small objects.
The technique, published in Nature Communications, could be developed for a wide range of applications.
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On the other hand, a miniature version could grip and transport microsurgical instruments through living tissues.
The study's lead author says, it was an incredible experience the first time we saw the object held in place by the tractor beam.
All my hard work has paid off.
It's just brilliant.
Another author added, we all know that sound waves can have a physical effect, but here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved.
The concept of tractor beams that can grab and lift objects has been used by science fiction writers for decades, but has since come to fascinate scientists and engineers.
Fans are also quick to point out that this could lead to the development of functional instruments like those sonic screwdrivers used in the television show Doctor Who.
Read more about this amazing development on sciencedaily.com.
According to JPL, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, October 28th when it flies through the moon's plume of icy spray.
Cassini launched in 1997 and entered orbit around Saturn in 2004.
Since then, it has been studying the huge planet, its rings, and its magnetic field.
Enceladus is an icy moon of Saturn, which has remarkable geologic activity, including a towering plume of ice, water vapor, and organic molecules spraying from its south polar region.
Cassini later determined that the moon has a global ocean and likely hydrothermal activity, meaning it could have the ingredients needed to support simple life.
The scheduled flyby will be Cassini's deepest ever dive through the Enceladus plume, which is thought to come from the ocean below.
The spacecraft has flown close to the surface of Enceladus before, But never this low directly through the active plume.
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This has been Amy Martin for Dark Matter Network News.
And did readings at a convention because when you have trade shows, you want people to come to your booth.
And so we did that.
We did the same thing for the Atlantic City Tourism Board, and that was a convention, a trade show for the Dish Networks, Satellite Networks, Dishwork Network.
And so they wanted people to come to their, we were advertising Penny Dreadful for them.
And she actually doesn't recommend that I, you know, go into that world, you know, and I just always feel fear, you know, from like to explore the unknown.
Oh, I want you to know I'm one of those people that the church people that came up there to see her.
I relocated from Sacramento, and I relocated to Phoenix City, Alabama.
And just across the river is Columbus, Georgia.
And there is a movie called The Phoenix City Story.
And if you actually see this movie, you will see that when it first come on, it'll tell you there are more churches there per capita than any place in the country.
And I'm going to tell you, you have these different statuses.
In all of these churches, you're going to have people who are educated and people who are not educated.
And the people who are well educated and well entrenched in these churches and every denomination, and they actually practice.
And again, when we look at the Bible, you will see that it is good and evil.
And it tells you that that area is the Bible belt.
Are you telling us that people in churches are practicing either black magic or witchcraft?
Is that what you're saying?
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Without a doubt.
And the thing I'm saying is, you know, they actually use the same Bible that the Christians who are really Christians and the people, again, Jesus is the God that we're serving.
And you will see where in the Bible they say put the blood up on the doorpost and they actually have for the Passover.
I mean, even these good church-going folk, when they get up against the wall with something, might be inclined to turn to whatever they think will work.
So talking about the out-of-body experience thing, 10 years or so ago, I had a couple of out-of-body experiences and kept waking up at night feeling vibrations and stuff, and it scared the horse poo out of me.
And so one night when I was having these vibrations and it was disturbing my sleep, I sat up in bed and said, just leave me alone out loud.
And I never had it since then.
But then I started having trouble sleeping where it feels like I'll fall asleep and it's like I'm nodding off.
And you talked about feeling like you're falling and waking up from that.
And I feel like I'll wake up like I've been nodding off and falling type of thing over and over and over again to where I have to take sleeping pills for it.
So is that related then to the out-of-body thing, do you think?
I think that the sleeping pills thing is not the best idea.
I think that you need to come to terms with that this is not something that's going to harm you, and that you should do some things to get into a relaxed state before you get into bed instead of going 400 miles an hour all day long and taking an ambient and then laying down and going to sleep.
I think that the kind of routine that we had when we were kids, we got a warm bath and we got a story and we got some milk, which is all telling your subconscious to slow down, we're going to sleep now.
Yeah, I think that a lot of times with spells, hexes, curses, it's really helpful if the person that you're spelling, cursing, or hexing believes in it so you can, you know, they can buy into it and suck that energy up.
Spells, and, you know, I wrote this little book about spells, and there are, you have to look at the karma, always the karma.
And so, yes, if you've got your cousin or your brother, whatever, and they're a drug addict.
And so to do a spell for sobriety and for clarity, then yes, I think that does have positive, even though you really are working against somebody's free will.
It's their free will to take that pill or shoot up that heroin or whatever it is.
But I think that's a positive, at least at the very least, you're throwing some positive energy at it, okay?