Women Who Travel Podcast: Salem, Then and Now

So yes, we don’t need the gimmicks. We don’t need the cauldrons, you know, literally a simple flame and some water and we can get well away, but we are human and we do quite like the trinkets and we do quite like our old to slip pretty. It is quite a thing to suddenly go, Hey, I study witchcraft, and I’m a witch.

You know, and sort of people go, Uh, right, okay, and they can either laugh, or, but I’m, I’m, I’m okay with that now. So, my children, who are ten and eight now, they love it that their mum’s a witch.

So, TikTok had sort of just come out, and, you know, you sort of saw the people dancing on there, and it seemed like quite a high energy, high vibe, quite a happy place. And it was actually a friend of mine who said, Do you know what, Ailey? You’ve got really great sense of humor, and I think you’d fit quite well on there.

So, that was when I started. And I had seen a niche straight away, that there was a need for people wanting to learn about paganism, about witchcraft. And I thought, with Witch Talk, you can give instant witchy advice. Within 15 seconds, you can tell someone how to make their day better, how to help themselves, you know, add a bit of positivity, remove a bit of negativity.

So WitchTalk, there are many creators that do sell their products through there, but I tend not to, because I feel that there has to be an exchange. So if I give you my tips and my knowledge, then maybe you can get something from me. And I also don’t like the force feeding of mass selling, that’s not what I’m about.

Everyone has different opinions on curses, um, and black magic or dark magic. I believe that we need a balance, just like nature has the good side of nature, and you have the awful side of nature. And I do believe we do need, you know, that light and that dark. Ethically, someone would have to do something very, very, very dark for me to…

warrant it. I think, you know, we all have the light and dark in us. We all have that streak that we get angry. We curse with our words. Words can be equally very powerful or what we speak, how we speak to people is very powerful. There would be a time where I would need to curse. So if somebody came in and murderer, child rapist, molester, anything, it does warrant.