Hexing Ceremony Targets President Trump With Witchcraft In Brooklyn

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN – President Donald Trump has elicited all kinds of protests around the country. On Friday night, a gathering of dissenters in Bushwick created one of the most imaginative – a hexing ceremony.

About a dozen people gathered at occult bookstore Catland on Flushing Avenue, near Central Avenue, to put a malevolent spell on the president.

The ceremony was simple enough. Catland honcho Dakota Bracciale set up an altar with a skull, some other bones and mason jars filled with crumbled wads of paper. Those were covered in curses from previous hexing sessions and Friday’s attendees were encouraged to add to the collection.

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The curses were mixed with nasty ingredients like coffin nails and urine to complete the process.

“Moral questions come up. ‘Oh God, I’ve heard cursing is so bad,’” Bracciale told the attendees. “Well, hexing someone because they’ve wronged you is very simple. It’s what laws are based on. It’s punitive, that’s what it is.”

Bracciale said the hexes could range from asking that justice be done to Trump to wishing the president lose a vital sex organ.

All the lights were turned off except for two candles and the group was instructed to chant a Psalm in unison. They were then invited to go to the altar, jot down their hexes and put them in the jars.

Similar events have taken place around the country. Organized anti-Trump witchcraft ceremonies made headlines earlier this year.

Attendees at Friday night’s ceremony in Bushwick ranged from true believers to the curious.

“People use magic because it works but also at the same time, the only reason that anyone does anything in this world is to make themselves feel better,” said self-described witch Rowan Alexa.

Silas Amunga said the anti-Trump event reminded him of politically tinged witchcraft ceremonies he sometimes saw in his native Nigeria.

“How much different is it from praying to God that your candidate wins?” he said.

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