Halloween is ‘actually upsetting’ for witches because it ‘mocks their tortured previous’
Lilith Wildwood, a modern day British witch who claims she has communicated with Freddie Mercury and Marilyn Monroe from beyond the grave, claims that the spooky season is awful
A modern day British witch has moaned that Halloween is a bad spell for sorceresses. Lilith Wildwood from Nottinghamshire called the spooky season “really upsetting’’ as she thinks it mocks them.
The 56-year-old also said she “calls in’’ ancestors on Halloween and claimed she has communicated with Freddie Mercury and Marilyn Monroe from beyond the grave. Lilith stated: “In the past people murdered and tortured witches in horrible ways.
“After being tortured, witches might have had a broken nose and she might have broken fingers and ripped clothes. I don’t think people realise the connection between the reality of what happened and the portrayal of witches now.
“It’s like people are making fun of all this suffering and I think that’s just awful. I’d say that 99.9% of what people see on films and in the media about witches and witchcraft is false.
“Witchcraft is actually quite mundane, there are no explosions, we wear normal clothes, we don’t always wear pointy hats.’’
Lilith revealed she had an “out of body experience’’ aged just one which she believes opened her up to “non-physical energies’’.
She said: “It was also a near-death experience – I had a choking accident and I always remembered leaving the smallness of my body and entering the greatness of cosmic consciousness. I started sensing auras and energies around me as I got older.’’
Then when she was eight she met a woman named ‘Mrs Grimble’ in the woods, visible only to her, who taught her “all about” magic and witchcraft.
Lilith added: “Some people would say she was an imaginary friend, but I believe she was real and someone who had passed on.”
After years of studying, she “found her people’’ at university, where she began practising magic in a weekly group, and later founded her own online coven, The Webcoven of Untamed Witchery, in 2020. She now hosts weekly rituals and magical gatherings on Zoom with about 30 other witches.
Lilith said: “We open the gates to our ancestors, and we do a chant to invite them in – it can be pets, people or inspiring famous people. Then I give time and space for people to have conversations with those people that they’ve invited in, and there’s often a lot of emotion afterwards.’’
On November 3, she will be “opening the doors’’ of the web coven to invite other people to take part in this community ritual. For more information, visit lilithwildwood.co.uk/veil/.
