The outrage at the light sentence handed down to former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, convicted of the sexual assault of a woman earlier this year on the Stanford campus, has reached the witch community. As we all knew it would.
Melanie Hexen, who identifies herself as a traditional hereditary witch, organized a mass hexing of Turner on Tuesday and published an account on Facebook, inviting other witches across the world to follow her lead. And they have. Thousands of self-described witches have joined in, performing ceremonies in which Turner has been forever cursed with all manner of sacred daggers, incense, blood-dipped candles, and other props.