Stormy Daniels to Be Honored by Salem Witches in Halloween Ceremony

Practicing witches will reportedly honor Stormy Daniels during a ceremony in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween.
The former adult film star will be honored in the Salem Witches’ Annual Magic Circle, part of the Festival of the Dead, according to The Boston Globe. The hosts believe she has been the victim of a modern-day witch hunt.
“I can’t find the words to explain emotionally how big this is to me,” Daniels, who says she has been a practicing witch since childhood, told the newspaper.
She continued, “No one understands what the last six years have been like for me. Everyone else gets to turn off the TV and forget about politics, which has reached this next-level, dark insanity. I don’t get that opportunity. I’m living in an RV because I can’t go home. The persecution those witches felt hundreds of years ago feels very familiar to me.”
Two hundred people were accused of witchcraft and prosecuted in colonial Salem between February 1692 and May 1693. Of those, 30 people were found guilty and 20 executed, with others dying in prison.
Former President Donald Trump, who has said that he’s the victim of a political witch hunt, is currently awaiting sentencing for 34 counts of falsifying records relating to hush money payments he made to the adult film star 11 days before the 2016 election. Daniels had alleged that they had an affair years earlier.
Trump has denied having a relationship with Daniels.
Earlier this month, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported new accusations alleging that Trump tried to “arrange another hush money deal” with Daniels by having his lawyer devise a plan to reduce what Daniels owes Trump in legal fees from a failed defamation lawsuit in 2018 if she agreed not to say anything about the former president before the 2024 election.
Newsweek reached out to Daniels and Trump’s attorney via email and the Festival of the Dead via its website for comment.
In addition to participating in the ceremony at 5 p.m. on October 31, Daniels will receive the first annual Salem Witches’ Woman of Power award. The award is given “in recognition of your strength, your intuition, and your magic. You are a true patriot.”
Christian Day, Brian Cain and Lorelei Stathopoulos, who own and operate local witch shops, were behind the decision to honor Daniels. The hosts teased the announcement of Daniels’ participation in the ceremony and the presentation of the new award in a video on Facebook.
“She is a very important symbol in our troubled times right now for female empowerment,” Cain said.
Daniels and her 13-year-old daughter are both practicing witches, and she said she previously studied with a voodoo priest in New Orleans and trained to be a paranormal investigator.
Describing her lifelong love of witchcraft, Daniels told The Boston Globe, “I’ve always seen spirits and communicated with the dead, and in middle school and high school, I read voraciously about it.”
She continued, “But I’ve always been a solo practitioner, so this will be my first time being part of a circle. And what a prestigious and amazing way to do that.”
Daniels said that her specialty is creating herb-filled “spell jars” and that people often come to her to request she cast spells on their court cases.
“I try to be ethical and do ‘justice-served’ spells instead because I don’t know what’s going on, who’s right and who’s being unfairly prosecuted,” she said.
The ceremony, accompanied by drumming by the Dragon Ritual Drummers, is a free event described online as a “most mysterious night when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest, the Salem Witches gather on Salem Common—as was done on hilltops of old, for a ceremony to honor our loved ones who have crossed over into the spirit world.”
“This time was known to the ancient Celts as Samhain, or Summer’s end for, as nature began to die, so too it was believed, that the spirits of the dead roam the lands seeking old friends among the living. This is a time to renew connections, mourn those you miss, and to celebrate all that these cherished souls brought to your life. Death is not the end, but merely a doorway to another world.”
When asked if she had ever cast a spell against Trump, Daniels said, “I think every witch in the world has done magic against Donald Trump, but you cannot fight something if you don’t know what it is.”
She added that she hasn’t “done anything specifically against” the former president.
Daniels added that Trump’s lawyers previously tried to “persecute her for being a witch, porn star, and paranormal investigator,” which she said has nothing to do with wire fraud.
Daniels also disregarded Trump’s previous claims that he is the victim of a witch hunt and said, “The best part is that Trump always says it’s a witch hunt against him. That’s funny. People like to say Donald Trump is evil, but you need to be a genius to be evil, and he’s not that smart.”
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