Salem Witch Takes World-Famous Warlock to Court Over Harassment and This is Real Life
A witch—a real witch! from Salem and everything!—is asking the courts to do what a bubbling cauldron full of nightshade and eye of newt apparently cannot: keep a dastardly warlock from allegedly harassing her, reports the Associated Press.
No, really. A warlock.
Lori Sforza, who runs a Salem witchcraft shop and leads a pagan church, filed for court-ordered protection against harassment from Christian Day, whose website calls him the “world’s best-known warlock.” Sforza accused Day of harassing her online and over the phone for three years. The two will meet in court on Wednesday.
A lawyer representing Day declined to comment. Day owns occult shops in Salem and New Orleans, according to his website. His lawyer said he lives in Louisiana.
The nature of Day’s alleged harassment is remarkably mundane for a real-life warlock: he is accused of making malicious posts about Sforza online, and using a private number to call her late at night and “swear at her.” No mention is made of transfiguring her into a goose. Yet.
Sforza and Day have the kind of wonderful history only a witch and warlock from Salem can share:
Sforza and Day were once business associates in Salem, Porreca said. They also made headlines in 2011 when they cast spells together to try to heal actor Charlie Sheen, who had called himself a “Vatican assassin warlock” during an interview on national television.
Sheen is still straight winning, so these are powerful conjurers, indeed.
Sforza, 75, is a self-described psychic and clairvoyant whose magic ways were passed to her from her ancestors, “Italian witches who healed victims of the bubonic plague.” As for Day, he, umm, owns a couple of occult shops, and reportedly started the Salem Festival of the Dead in 2003.
A judge in Salem will hear the case on Wednesday and determine whether Sforza is entitled to court protection.
