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Q: Etsy, the online marketplace for buying and selling all things quirky and handmade, is also home to a vibrant witch community. 
  
 Those witches are fuming over Etsy’s new policy of rigorously enforcing its existing ban on sales of “metaphysical services,” which is to say spells and hexes. As The Daily Dot reported, previously witches and other purveyors of the supernatural got away with selling such services as long as they didn’t guarantee results and also offered the buyer a tangible product. You could sell a spell offering (but not guaranteeing) better sex, for instance, if you included actual photos of the spell being cast as part of the purchase. Evidently that’s no longer the case. 
  
 Etsy Where will shoppers turn for their next priapic wand? 
  
 “Any metaphysical service that promises or suggests it will effect a physical change (e.g., weight loss) or other outcome (e.g., love, revenge) is not allowed, even if it delivers a tangible item,” Etsy’s policy reads. 
  
 In response, a small group of witches—no, not a coven—has taken up an online petition to stop what it views as a new ban on its merchants. 
  
 Etsy tells Quartz its policy has always prohibited selling services and that it didn’t change the rules; it just clarified them. 
  
 While the public may chuckle, there is actually a very small, but apparently growing, Pagan and Wiccan population in the US that may or may not identify as witches. In the absence of a local witch outfitter, Etsy offers this group a way to buy and sell their wares to each other and the general public. 
  
 The Etsy petition claims the ban is religious discrimination. 
  
 “This is discrimination against Pagan and Wiccan faiths, as this ban will target certain sellers and items,” it states. “Many stores have already been closed!” 
  
 Comments left on the petition echoed the sentiment. “I think it’s awful that you are discriminating against the Wiccan, Pagan, and all Metaphysical communities,” wrote one petitioner from California. “Are you going to ban Kabbalah items next?” 
  
 A spokesperson for Etsy, which went public in April, says the reasons for the “clarification” of its policy are twofold: It wants to reiterate that it doesn’t allow services, and it’s trying to ”protect our community from business practices that prey upon vulnerable and desperate shoppers—such as those seeking a treatment for cancer or infertility, or those with self-esteem issues who are seeking a spell for weight loss or beauty enhancement (think penis or breast enlargement).” 
  
 “At Etsy, we believe in freedom of thought, expression and religion,” the spokesperson said. “When we make policy decisions, we strive to strike the right balance between creative freedom, Etsy’s values, and establishing a safe marketplace for members.” 
  
 Etsy isn’t the only marketplace to ban metaphysical goods and services. 
  
 Previously many witches congregated on eBay, until it banned spells, potions, and other products back in 2012. 
  
 But whither to witches, and seekers of their remedies if they can’t sell on Etsy? 
  
 Amazon has been so eager to snap up Etsy merchants that it has dispatched emails inviting them to sell on its new “Handmade” marketplace. In the very least, it would offer more convenience: Your next love potion could delivered to you by drone in thirty minutes or less. ||||| Etsy, the online marketplace for handcrafted goods, has long hosted a thriving community of witches, tarot readers, and other spiritual and supernatural vendors. After eBay banned the sale of spells and the like in 2012, it became one of the most popular places for these types of vendors to make a living. 
  
 But many who sell supernatural goods on the site are claiming Etsy has been on something of a witch hunt (sorry), changing its rules about the sale of metaphysical services and shutting down stores without warning. 
  
 “Swathes of us have now had our sales and shop views tank, and there is great distress in the metaphysical community,” one vendor, who wished to remain anonymous, told the Daily Dot in an email. 
  
 The witch explained that under Etsy’s previous rules, spells and hexes were allowed to be sold, as long as they fit two criteria: They didn’t guarantee results, and they produced something tangible. So you could sell a tarot reading as long as it came with, say, a digital download, or a candle that could be used for casting spells, as long as you didn't guarantee that the spell would actually work. Earlier this year, for instance, I bought a sex spell off Etsy , which came with both photographs of the spell being cast, and a disclaimer that no spell is guaranteed to work. 
  
 Recently, however, Etsy quietly adopted new guidelines that prohibit the sale of spells and hexes. According to its new rules, “any metaphysical service that promises or suggests it will effect a physical change (e.g., weight loss) or other outcome (e.g., love, revenge) is not allowed, even if it delivers a tangible item.” 
  
 Etsy didn't include a date with its new guidelines, so it's unclear when, exactly, the policy change took place. Yet the Daily Dot's source says that Etsy was still enforcing the old rules at the beginning of the month. “Up until June, many sellers had been contacted by Etsy warning them their listings would be deleted and/or shop suspended unless they updated these kinds of things to include something tangible," she wrote. 
  
 Even if the witches had a disclaimer saying these services were “for entertainment purposes only,” or that a spell was not guaranteed to work, listing something as a “love spell” vaguely suggests that you could find love by casting it. 
  
 But instead of warning vendors about the upcoming change, Etsy seems to have pulled the plug overnight. Many vendors say stores began to be shut down last week, and on June 9 our source was sent an email by “Etsy Marketplace Integrity” implying a change had been made. 
  
 “We’ve recently clarified our spells-related policies in a way that impacts your shop,” the email read. “Because of this, your shop has been suspended.” 
  
 When asked for comment, Etsy spokesperson Sara Cohen said in an email that the website “recently” updated its policies, though she declined to give an exact date. 
  
 “When we make policy decisions, we strive to strike the right balance between creative freedom, Etsy's values, and establishing a safe marketplace for members," she wrote. 
  
 Cohen also insisted that Etsy has been contacting affected sellers “to help them make sure items they sell comply with our guidelines." She said the website is shutting down only the shops that violate these new policies. 
  
 An Etsy forum on the subject has over 850 responses. Some witches are annoyed that Etsy had given no warning that the site's policies on witchcraft were about to change. Others were frustrated at Etsy for ditching the community that had previously been welcomed on the site with open arms. 
  
 “Etsy has definitely made a lot of money off the sale of these ‘spelled’ items, so they have had to know they were being sold. They even had a category for Spell listings which would prove that point,” wrote one vendor. 
  
 Screengrab via Jaya Saxena 
  
 Screengrab via Jaya Saxena 
  
 Within Etsy’s witch and metaphysical community, there are a few theories as to why Etsy would have adopted the change. One has to do with Etsy having gone public in April. Additionally, while the site focuses on selling handmade, unique goods, it has always been an easy place for resellers and counterfeiters to set up. Etsy is now facing a lawsuit from investors over items that possibly violate trademarks, and it’s possibly that the website has become more strict about just what can be sold. 
  
 While these theories are all sound, many metaphysical sellers believe that Etsy has a cultural bias against their goods. One forum user compared the sale of crystals that could be used in meditative rituals to the sale of a rosary or a cross. Both items represent spirituality, but neither make the claim that they will heal your ills or help you speak to God. 
  
 “Etsy seems to be only targeting those items of a pagan/occult nature while allowing items of certain faiths traditionally used for protection like St. Christopher medals, to still be marketed,” said another vendor in an email. “Personally I think it's probably unintended ignorance and failure to consider and think through what banning all spiritual, energetic and magickal claims will really mean.” 
  
 “Etsy seems to be only targeting those items of a pagan/occult nature while allowing items of certain faiths traditionally used for protection, like St. Christopher medals, to still be marketed.” 
  
 Admins in the forums insist that the sales of things like oils, incense, crystals and candles for use in spells are still okay, as long as they don’t claim any magical properties. For many witches, however, that’s not good enough. 
  
 “The entire point of buying stones/herbs/oils is for their metaphysical effects in my community!,” wrote one vendor. “If I can't list these correspondences, then why would any witch/pagan buy them from my shop? Witches and Pagans want to buy stones from people with knowledge about their magickal properties.” 
  
 There is already a petition to get Etsy to reopen these shops, with many sellers accusing the website of religious discrimination. 
  
 “I give the example of the seller who just this week was told to change the title of her listing from 'Archangel Protection Spell Kit' to ‘Archangel Protection PRAYER Kit’ by an Etsy rep,” claimed one vendor. “A spell and a prayer are basically the same thing, putting an intention out into the Universe.” 
  
 Discrimination or not, if you’re looking to hex your ex-girlfriend, you’ll have to start looking elsewhere. Or alternatively, you could always band together with these witches and cast a spell on Etsy. 
  
 Photo via Wikimedia Commons/Examination of a Witch (1853) by T. H. Matteson | Remix by Jason Reed |||||
A:
Back in 2012, when eBay banned the sale of spells, potions, and other metaphysical goods, many witches and pagans set up shop with Etsy instead. But they're going to have to shuffle their goods and services yet again, now that Etsy—which went public in April—has quietly banned the sale of these items, reports the Daily Dot. It used to be that such items were allowed so long as they were tangible goods and did not promise efficacy. But now that's not even enough, according to the new guidelines: "Any metaphysical service that promises or suggests it will effect a physical change (e.g., weight loss) or other outcome (e.g., love, revenge) is not allowed, even if it delivers a tangible item." The pagan and Wiccan community is claiming cultural and even religious bias, pointing to the continued sale of more-traditional prayer items such as rosaries and crosses on Etsy. "I give the example of the seller who just this week was told to change the title of her listing from 'Archangel Protection Spell Kit' to 'Archangel Protection PRAYER Kit' by an Etsy rep," one vendor says. "A spell and a prayer are basically the same thing, putting an intention out into the Universe." Etsy, meanwhile, responds that it simply wishes to clarify that it's not in the business of selling services, and wants to "protect our community from business practices that prey upon vulnerable and desperate shoppers—such as those seeking a treatment for cancer or infertility." Amazon, meanwhile, is more than happy to take the new merchants, reports Quartz. (This witch says the TSA fired her for her religious beliefs.)