BOSTON (AP) — A Salem, Massachusetts, woman who calls herself a witch priestess is taking a self-proclaimed warlock to court over accusations of harassment.
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 75-year-old Sforza accuses Day, 45, of repeatedly calling her late at night from a private number and swearing at her, said Fiore Porreca, an attorney representing her. Sforza, who goes by the business name Lori Bruno, also alleges Day made malicious posts about her on social media.
“She’s being abused, intimidated and harassed,” Porreca said. Porreca said the harassment has hurt his client’s business. On her website, Sforza calls herself a psychic and a clairvoyant. She claims to be a descendent of Italian witches who healed victims of the bubonic plague. She is also the founder of Our Lord and Lady Of The Trinacrian Rose, a pagan church in Salem.
Salem’s Festival of the Dead — which culminates in the Official Salem Witches’ Halloween Ball on Halloween night — was created by Day in 2003 and has expanded to include a psychic and witchcraft fair and a seance.
The Salem District Court and the lawyers in the case would not provide a copy of the order filed by Sforza. 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.
A judge in Salem District Court is scheduled to hear the case on Wednesday to decide whether Sforza’s allegations amount to harassment and if she needs court protection. Salem, home of the 17th-century witch trials, has a tourism industry built around the occult that reaches fever pitch in October. The city is home to several witchcraft stores, museums dedicated to the trials and Halloween-themed attractions.
Witches and warlocks….ahh yes now we’re getting back to our old mystery school religions.
They’re screwed in court… Because the Judge is going to be a WIZARD! And Wizards don’t really care for warlocks and witches!
Fkn killing me…
Song: from Probot.
I am the Warlock.
Is that him in the picture? He looks like the wicked witch of the west.
Burn the two of them. — or maybe just hit him with a bucket of water… “I’m melting”
Here I thought we were fighting for the bill of rights which includes freedom of religion and due process. Oh well, jesus-land here we come inquisitors just behind.
Give them a jury and one day to figure it all out then make the loser pay for the whole affair. The only reason this is even being “reported” is because one it involves non-christians, two is good for sensationalism around halloween, three gives the mentally retarded something to focus on other than reality, four it takes place in SALEM and lastly because people are going to gobble this crap up.
If anyone actually cares just demand some physical evidence because SUPPOSEDLY he made many, many phone calls and internet posts which can be RECORDED, tracking not needed, just record the voice.
Stupid fcks! All witches are witches and if any witch goes against its coven they are then warlocked.
https://youtu.be/9hvA0wWTIv4?t=14