Jezebel, an “alternative” media publication, published an article on September 8 where they paid ‘Etsy witches to curse Charlie Kirk’ who has now died after he was shot in the neck while at a campus event
A publication in the US claimed to have paid “Etsy witches” to cast a “curse” on right-wing commentator and MAGA campaigner Charlie Kirk, who has since died after being shot in the neck during a campus event at Utah Valley University earlier today (September 10).
Jezebel, a media organisation founded in 2007, describes itself as an “alternative to traditional women’s publications”, published an article on September 8 titled: “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.”
Just two days later, 31-year-old Kirk died after he was shot while reportedly discussing transgender mass shootings to a crowd. Graphic shooting shows Kirk addressing a crowd before gunfire is heard.
After Charlie’s shooting, Jezebel amended the article with an Editor’s Note, which read: “This story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind.”
A Utah Valley University spokesperson said Kirk was shot by a suspect who fired from the Losee Center, about 200 yards away from where the conservative firebrand was addressing the crowd. Kirk was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, his condition touch-and-go, but later died of his injuries, New York Post reported.
The Jezebel article starts off by exploring how it’s easy to buy a curse online, just like getting a phone charger.
It reads: “On the mystical website Etsy, you can find a spell for just about anything. Don’t want it to rain on your wedding day? There’s a spell for that. Want the man who cheated on you to develop an incurable rash? Or premature balding? The Etsy coven has you covered.”
Jezebel then continued: “Are you interested in punishing Kirk for the years of regressive rhetoric he’s shouted at America’s youth and anyone within earshot? Here at Jezebel, we’re about to find out if there’s a spell for that.”
The writer, who was not bylined in the article, then went on to discuss Charlie Kirk’s record when it came to women’s rights and feminism, and wrote how he insisted that “Western women [were] more miserable than ever.”
The article added: “He tells auditoriums full of young women that our freedom is a flaw, not an achievement. He’s obsessed with declining birth rates and idealizes the 1950s, when women’s only ‘job’ was tending to children and husbands.
“If we all abandoned our careers and returned to motherhood, we’d be happier, according to Kirk. Indeed, he fails to realize that I would be happiest if he would just shut up.”
The article does make it clear that they didn’t wish for grave or “dark” forces to cause him harm. Rather, they hoped he would be inconvenienced by regular zits, malfunctioning microphones and clothes that didn’t fit him — not death.
After perusing Etsy, where a variety of everyday curses were on for sale, the writer settled on their first purchase, wanting a spell that made “everyone hate him.” But even cursing is a business, and the author was left facing the cheap tricks of the trade, such as “upselling” for $50 to “amplify the energetic support” of the spell to make it work faster.
Another salesperson tried to make the writer pay extra for a “protection spell” for the writer themself, after noticing “negative energy not only from you, but projected at you. Likely from toxic family members, co-workers, or new acquaintances.”
After settling on a spell from Priestess Linin, they were sent proof of the spell being cast the next day. The article wrote: “She sent me her proof of cast: a photograph in flames, the edges slowly curving inward, engulfing Charlie’s ridiculous scrunched-up little face. She whispered (I imagine), “Trust the unseen.” Chills.”
At the end, the writer rather ominously wrote that “time will tell” if the curses actually worked.
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