AI Spells, Bots, and WitchTok: Practicing Beyond the Scroll

About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of social media on witchcraft practices, particularly focusing on WitchTok and its effects on inexperienced witches.

Send us Fan Mail Is TikTok ruining witchcraft? In this episode of Magick Kitchen Podcast, Leandra Witchwood and Elyse Welles talk candidly about WitchTok, discernment, and what happens when inexperienced witches end up teaching other beginners. They unpack the “keeping up with the Joneses” pressure social media can create—how polished, aesthetic spell videos can disconnect you from your own practice, and how public spellwork can leave energetic holes a seasoned practitioner can see. They also...

People in this episode

Hosts: Leandra Witchwood, Elyse Welles

Topics covered

• WitchTok
• social media
• witchcraft
• discernment
• spellwork
• energetic holes

Keywords

• witchcraft
• WitchTok
• social media
• spellwork
• discernment
• energetic holes
• beginners

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Organizations: WitchTok

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