A scroll through similar online retailers reveals a spell for every occasion, including spells promising to keep the rain away on your wedding day or to help you get tickets to a sold-out concert.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Etsy told BBC Scotland they have seen “growing interest” in “magical touches” for occasions like weddings.<\/p>\n
They said searches for spells for people trying to ensure sunshine on their big day have grown by 206% while general searches for wedding related-spells and witches are up 105%.<\/p>\n
Whether they can actually deliver is another question entirely – in fact, Etsy rules say spells must be marketed as for entertainment purposes only.<\/p>\n
For Cahill, it’s not all about doing business.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old says that young people – though they are very used to thinking logically – are looking to believe in something magical.<\/p>\n
She says that a lot of younger people feel lonely, and she wants to be a “safe space” for people, and to give them comfort.<\/p>\n
“As humans we need to believe in something that is bigger than ourselves,” she said. “Curiosity is natural.<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of the time people know the answer they want, but are just looking for a bit of reassurance.<\/p>\n
“Even if magic isn’t real, if it helps someone feel more confident what is the harm?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scroll through similar online retailers reveals a spell for every occasion, including spells promising to keep the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-819329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}