The Cult of Etsy Witches

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Education

3.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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For the low, low price of $19.99, you too can manifest love, money, or maybe just a little chaos. On this Halloween flavored episode of Sounds Like A Cult, we are diving broom first into The Cult of Etsy Witches, the booming online marketplace where spirituality meets capitalism and hexes come with free shipping. From TikTok witchfluencers to hexed baseball teams to real life political curses, host Amanda Montell explores how witchcraft became one of the internet’s most aesthetic and suspiciously profitable belief systems. Joined by practicing witch and author Mya Spalter (@mya.spalter), we’re unpacking what the Cult of Etsy Witches reveals about our craving for magic, meaning, and maybe a bit of manipulation Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube!Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles. Thank you to our sponsors! Head to https://www.squarespace.com/CULT to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code CULT Go to https://HelloFresh.com/SLAC10FM now to Get 10 Free Meals + a Free Item for Life! London! Come see Sounds Like A Cult LIVE!! November 24th at Bush Hall. Get tickets before they're gone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:18.7	as with all episodes of Sounds Like a Cult, are solely host opinions and quoted allegations.
1:23.5	The content here should not be taken as indisputable fact. This podcast is for entertainment purposes
1:28.2	only. Would you rather have to pay an Etsy witch $25 to put a hex on you? Or follow a problematic
1:36.9	Instagram therapist and never be able to mute or unfollow them. Oh, bad choices. It's culty when you give your power away to anyone and to anything.
1:47.3	Mm-hmm.
1:47.9	It's not very specific, obviously, to just...
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