Stir your teaspoon three times in a cup filled with coffee.
Recite "abundance will flow to me."
Tap the cup three times with the back of the spoon ... Here is your spell "sealed" and ready to use.
On her TikTok account, Manon, 20, provides tutorials on spells, card draws and advice of all kinds for her almost 40,000 subscribers and sorcerer's apprentices.
Falling into the pot of witchcraft for a year thanks to social networks, the young woman gives in "white magic".
“I cast spells for myself, whether for money or health.
I don't cast spells on other people because that is not part of my values, she explains.
I don't see myself hurting others ”.
His speciality ?
The healing.
A gift that would have allowed her to cure her best friend's cat.
“It's a belief, procrastinates Manon.
My best friend thinks that it was me who cured her cat, me too… The result is that we are both happy ”.
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Manon is far from being the only one to have fallen into the "Witchtok", the "TikTok of witches". Esoteric videos accumulate several billion views on the social network and attract a very young audience. In France, the most popular witch is called Sarah Al, and has 1.3 million subscribers.
The practice, popularized by the networks, has a new, more modern and aesthetic image that attracts Internet users. But for Sophie Barel, doctoral student in information and communication sciences, it goes further: “This is a generation facing an economic and social crisis. They don't even know if they will be able to do the studies, the work they want. To do witchcraft is to restore order to an uncertain daily life. Whether we are aware that it does not exist, or even that we think it works, it is a satisfying, reassuring practice. "
