BOSTON (AP) – A judge granted a protective order against a warlock on Wednesday, spelling relief for the Salem witch who accused him of harassment. She had accused self-proclaimed warlock Christian Day of harassing her over the phone and on social media over the past three years.
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Both appeared before Judge Robert Brennan in Salem District Court.
Sforza accused Day of repeatedly calling her late at night from a private number and swearing at her. She also claims he made malicious posts about her on social media and that’s affected her business in Salem. The two are still business rivals. The Associated Press reports that he calls the problems with Sforza “a business dispute gone wrong”. Sforza, who also goes by the name Lori Bruno, also alleged that Day has been “speaking ill of me on the Internet” and that she is afraid for her safety and the safety of her disabled husband.
Day, according to his website, owns occult stores in Salem and New Orleans. “That’s all it was”, Mr Day said.
Ms Sforza claims descent from Italian witches who healed victims of the bubonic plague and is founder of Our Lord and Lady Of The Trinacrian Rose – a pagan church based in Salem. Now a harassment case involving a self-proclaimed witch priestess and a man who calls himself the world’s best known warlock has the small town making headlines just in time for Halloween.
Day did not testify during the court appearance, but remained firm that he did not make any of those calls.
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After the judge decided in favour of the witch priestess, Mr Day stormed out of the court and vowed to appeal the order, saying: “I’m going to fight this every step of the way because it’s unjust”. Of course, Salem has a profitable tourism business built almost entirely around matters of the occult and is home to a multitude of witch-related shops, museums, and popular Halloween attractions.
