Warning! This Vampire Show Will Literally Cast a Spell on You
By Movieguide® Contributor
While writing for the first season of THE ORIGINALS, Carina MacKenzie wrote real spells into the show and didn’t care when actual witches called to warn her that she was cursing viewers.
“In season one [of THE ORIGINALS] when I was the writer’s assistant, I wrote the chants and I would go online and, like, look up spells, cause like, why not?” MacKenzie said. “And I’d like change a couple words — I’d like, figure out a spell and I’d go and change a couple of words to French, a couple words to Creole, a couple words to Haitian Creole…and then I’d like throw some Latin in. And I was just making some spells.”
“And then we got a call from a woman in New Orleans who was like, ‘I think you are playing with fire,’ you know,” she continued with a giggle. “‘What are you trying to do? You’re putting spells in everybody’s living room all across America.’ Like, we were cursing everybody who watched the show. And I started making s*** up a little weirder.”
MacKenzie’s laissez-faire attitude towards her reckless writing highlights the growing comfort with occultism in America. In recent years, the popularity of witchcraft and other occultist practices has grown at astounding rates as the basics are shared across social media.
In November 2022, the #WitchTok hashtag had amassed 30 billion views on TikTok as those sharing the evil practice promised immense power to those who joined them. The practices offer extreme risks as people invite real demonic forces into their lives. Past practitioners who have since been saved by Jesus are stepping forward to warn others not to fall for the allure.
“I remember when I started practicing witchcraft, I was very curious about it,” former witch-turned-Christian minister Jenny Weaver said. “I saw it as a means to have power, in a powerless world. I remember getting books about spells and going into the new age store and purchasing bundles of sage, crystals, and all of the things you would do to cast spells. But I’ll tell you, it took a turn for the worse.”
“I had such a fear that gripped my life. It crippled me,” Weaver continued. “The next thing that I knew, I was seeing things, hearing things, and I was being tortured by demonic spirits that had come in through the use of witchcraft. It was a very scary time. I didn’t even want to close my eyes to wash my face. I was that terrified. If you think that it is innocent I am telling you it will take you down a road that you do not want to go down.”
Unfortunately, occultism seems to be popping up ever more regularly in pop culture, leading millions of young Americans to let their guard down and give demonic forces an entry point into their lives.
While this is extremely serious, Christians, thankfully, have a promise that the Lord will protect them from evil spirits through Jesus. However, this does not mean we should mess around and open a door for them to come in. Christians should flee from this type of content and seek the Lord in the media that we consume.
Movieguide® previously reported on occultism in America:
In Taylor Swift’s “Willow” music video, she includes occult worship, a troubling practice being normalized in culture across numerous forms of media.
The “Willow” music video follows Swift as she tries to connect with her lover. Something always stands in their way, and they are forced to escape to different time periods where they attempt to connect again. The scenes for the first two verses find Swift in a forest and a 1920s bar before the third scene takes place during cult worship around a campfire.
This cult worship scene has no relevance to the song, nor does it tie into the scenes from the previous verses. Swift observes the occult ritual taking it in for a few moments before taking her place and joining the dance for the second half of the verse. After, she leaves to travel through time again and continue looking for her lover, whom she eventually convenes with during the final chorus of the song.
The inclusion of the campfire witchcraft scene is confusing, as it was unnecessarily added onto lyrics it has zero relevance to. Nonetheless, it provides another worrying example of the way witchcraft and pagan worship are being pushed into pop culture and becoming normalized.
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