17 Famous Celebs Who Are Also Proud Witches (And Warlocks)

Grace HoltzclawSat, October 24, 2026 at 1:31 AM UTC

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People often say that celebrities have fate or luck on their side, but perhaps some of these stars conjured up their own destiny. Is a brush with fame really just a stroke of magic? As the season of the witch continues to unfold, let's unpack some of the most powerful members of Hollywood's coven. Here are 17 famous witches and warlocks who I wouldn't dare mess with:

GIPHY / Viagiphy.com1. Lana Del Rey

Joseph Okpako / Getty ImagesIt seems Del Rey’s version of “Season Of The Witch” hits close to home. In fact, she used her powers to place a hex on President Donald Trump during his first term. Rumors about her ritualistic practice surfaced on Twitter in 2017. She tweeted, “At the stroke of midnight…Feb 24, March 26, April 24, May 23…Ingredients can [be] found online.” Her followers noticed that these dates corresponded with the waning crescent moon phases. In occult circles, waning crescents symbolize catharsis and the release of negativity.

Mike Coppola/MG25 / Getty ImagesWhen NME asked her about her alleged hex on Trump, Del Rey unabashedly confirmed the suspicions. “Yeah, I did it. Why not? Look, I do a lot of shit,” she answered. Remind me to gather those cryptic “ingredients” before the next waning crescent moon rises.

Taylor Hill / Getty Images2. Lana Del Rey isn’t the only celebrity who has cast a spell on a President. Half Magic writer, director, and star Heather Graham once brought a coven of confidantes together to “wish” Barack Obama into office. “Well, I have some friends, and we get together, and we make wishes,” Graham revealed on a 2018 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

TheStewartofNY / Getty ImagesWe like to call ourselves witches just to feel kind of fun,” she continued. “We were wishing for Obama to be elected,” Graham admitted. “Right, and it happened! [...] Did you guys forget to do a wish this time around?” Kimmel inquired, referring to Trump’s 2016 election as President.

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3. Vanessa Hudgens uses her identity as a witch to propel her creativity and love life to new heights (it’s almost like she’s on a broomstick). In her 2023 Tubi documentary Dead Hot: Season of the Witch, Hudgens travels to Salem, Massachusetts, to explore witchcraft and the spirit world in contrast with modern life.

Phillip Faraone/VF25 / Getty Images“I want to take away the (stigma) of witchcraft being something evil. It’s beautiful, it’s empowering. It’s about sisterhood and lifting other women up and allowing people a safe space to connect,” Hudgens told TODAY.

Lionel Hahn / Getty ImagesHudgens claims her marriage to Cole Tucker is a direct result of “the power of manifestation.” Hudgens divulged to Marie Claire, “I do consider myself a witch, and I love working with the moon and with herbs and with stones and, you know, everything has a meaning and an energy, and the more you learn about what everything has to offer, the more you can use its energy to bring forth the things you want in your life.”

Cindy Ord/VF25 / Getty Images4. Gisele Bündchen called herself a “witch of love” in a 2023 Vanity Fair profile. She is known for using her healing powers to help injured animals and her ex-husband, Tom Brady.

James Devaney / Getty ImagesBrady once revealed to CBS News, “She’s so about the power of intention, and believing things that are really going to happen, and she always makes a little altar for me at the game, because she just wills it so much. So, she put together a little altar for me that I could bring with pictures of my kids.”

Taylor Hill / Getty ImagesBündchen hasn’t been shy about her love of crystals and astrology. She’s something of a modern-day Snow White who believes in the “power of nature” and gets close to the birds, squirrels, and butterflies she meets in passing.

Tristar Media / Getty Images5. Matt Skiba was the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Blink-182 during the years (2015-2022) when founding member Tom DeLonge wasn’t part of the band.

Amanda Edwards / Getty ImagesDuring his time with Blink-182, Skiba said he used witchcraft to prevent the notoriously cursed Fyre Festival from happening. “I had a bad feeling about that event,” Skiba revealed to NME.

Rich Fury / Getty Images“I consider myself a pagan and a witch. With every inch of my energy, I wanted Fyre not to happen. I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening.” Blink-182 was originally slated to perform at the festival alongside acts like Migos, Major Lazer, and Disclosure, but they eventually backed out due to “technical and logistical issues.” The question remains: Was that really why Blink-182 dropped out of Fyre Fest, or was something supernatural at play?

Allen Berezovsky / Getty Images6. Grimes says she dabbled in witchcraft during her middle school “Wiccan phase.”

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She put her interest in sorcery on hold after a particularly frightening incident. “I was casting a spell, but the rosary crumbled in my hands, and it was really scary,” Grimes told The Fader.

Kevin Mazur / Getty ImagesGrimes recently picked her spellbook up off the shelf and revisited her old passion for witchcraft. In a 2019 interview with DAZED, she confided, “I have performed many spells. Most recently, I performed a spell to save the life of someone important to me, and it dramatically worked.” Evidently, Grimes’ power as a witch was never just a phase.

Pierre Suu / Getty Images7. “Which Witch” singer Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine thinks of every song as a “magic spell” and every performance as a “small exorcism.”

Getty Images / Getty ImagesGrowing up in the macabre landscape of Camberwell (a district in South London, England), Welch was fascinated by the paranormal. One of her primordial memories is writing spellbooks with her coven of classmates. “One time, I tried to make one of my classmates fall in love with me, so me and my coven put his name in a bottle, and the rule was that there had to be a drop of blood and… well, I don’t know if it ever worked,” Welch told VICE.

Joseph Okpako / Getty ImagesShe’s taken this childhood interest in witchcraft on the road with her as a touring musician. “I remember being in a hotel room at some point during touring and taking out photos and rocks at 5 AM in the morning to make a spell with my bandmates,” Welch shared. Since Welch regards her songs as magic, we may all be under her spell right now.

Joseph Okpako / Getty Images8. Lorde is deeply connected to the spiritual world; specifically, she shares a close bond with David Bowie's ghost. In a 2017 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Lorde opened up about her ability to sense the dead.

Gilbert Flores / Getty Images“I have always felt connected to [David Bowie], even though I spent only about five minutes in [his] company. I felt he was watching over me in a way. It would be no surprise to anyone; I am not weirded out by ghosts or spirits. I am basically a witch,” she admitted.

Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images9. Ariana Grande’s performance as Glinda the Good in Wicked was a little more method than I ever imagined. The “just like magic” singer confirmed her witchy status in a 2024 interview on the Zach Sang Show.

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“I am indeed the most witchiest witch,” Grande remarked. Her Wicked co-star, Bowen Yang, revealed that Grande often did tarot card readings on set. "Ari had gotten a deck of queer tarot cards, and she was basically doing a three-card pull," Yang admitted to Them. "She was giving us tarot readings. She was very in her element, and I was like, 'You should do this for a living.'” New side hustle unlocked?

NBC / Getty Images10. Patrick Swayze was a crystals guy. ​In a 1992 interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Ghost star opened up about his intense fascination with crystals and magic wands.

Images Press / Getty Images“I absolutely believe in crystals. They are a major part of my life. I really think I’m on a journey now, spiritually and career-wise. [He holds up a thin opalescent rock.] This is my magic wand […] I don’t know if this stuff works, but I tell ya, I believe that things you believe in can come true,” Swayze stated. While he might not have called himself a practicing Pagan, Swayze possessed a deep curiosity for the spiritual world.

Vinnie Zuffante / Getty Images11. Princess Nokia’s heritage in Regla de Ocha, or Santería, is a defining facet of her music and identity. She told The Fader, "My religious beliefs are my birthright. I’m a Puerto Rican woman whose family has roots in Regla de Ocha, also known as Santería. I like to honor my West African and Taíno ancestry; I consider it sacred and divine."

John Lamparski / Getty Images"A lot of practices of Regla de Ocha come with mediumship, clairvoyance, and healing abilities. I view these abilities as gifts. My connection to Regla de Ocha comes through my mother and [my] mother’s mother," she said.

WWD / Getty ImagesPrincess Nokia pays homage to her Puerto Rican and Yoruba roots in her song “Brujas” (Spanish for witches). She raps, “I'm that Black a-Rican bruja / Straight out from the Yoruba / And my ancestors Nigerian, my grandmas was brujas / And I come from an island, and it's called Puerto Rico / And it's one of the smallest, but it got the most people.” For Princess Nokia, spiritual traditions are coded in her DNA.

Scott Dudelson / Getty Images12. Paris Jackson’s current Instagram bio is “friendly neighborhood bog witch.”

Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin / Getty ImagesHer former Instagram bio was “an ye harm none, do what ye will,” a direct reference to the Wiccan Rede. The Wiccan Rede serves as a founding principle and ethical standard for Wicca followers. Jackson has also shared photos of her “coven” performing a topless full-moon ritual on social media.

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13. In 2016, Azealia Banks gave the internet an inside look at her brujería closet in a series of Instagram videos that she has since deleted. Brujería is the Spanish word for witchcraft. The video series showed a closet full of white feathers, an unidentified black substance, and at least two dead chickens on the ground.

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Banks mentioned that she’d been practicing “three years' worth of brujería” in one of her Instagram videos. As she cleaned the closet on camera, Banks shared, “Real witches do real things.”

Julien Hekimian / Getty ImagesBanks’ social media posts received major backlash from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Former Senior Vice President of PETA Lisa Lange responded to Banks’ videos in an exclusive statement to People. “People are rightly horrified to learn that Azealia Banks reportedly has been slaughtering chickens in her closet for three years, and that she is apparently so out of touch with public sentiment that she bragged about it on social media,” Lange stated.

Christie Goodwin / Getty Images​Banks is also known for performing “egg spells.” Banks revealed in an interview with VICE, “You cleanse yourself with an egg. Pass the egg all over yourself, praying for all your negativity to go away into the egg. But usually you do it when someone is fucking with you to get what the person is doing off of you. You crack it in a crossroad, and you walk away, and you don’t look back. That shit works.” Here’s to hoping she’s getting her eggs at the store instead of from inside the closet.

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14. As lead vocalist and keyboardist for the iconic duo Daryl Hall and John Oates, Hall had a surprising fascination with the spiritual realm beyond music.

Lynn Goldsmith / Getty ImagesHall admitted to Penthouse magazine, “Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a solid six or seven years immersed in the Kabbalah and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions [and] ancient techniques for focusing the inner flame.” While he’s never labeled himself as a warlock, Hall was influenced by the traditions and literature of the occult. Hall revealed to Pitchfork that he’s both “retained” and “discarded” knowledge of these practices over the years.

Steve Jennings / Getty Images15. Carlton Gebbia is not only a former Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, but she’s also a practicing Wiccan! Gebbia revealed in an interview with Bravo, “I’m considered a sole practitioner. I am Celtic as far as my ancestry is concerned. My grandmother was a pagan, but she also practiced witchcraft, which is what I do.

Paul Archuleta / Getty Images"So, if you’re going to put a word on it, I would be considered a Celtic pagan witch. But I’m a sole practitioner; I don’t belong to a coven, which is a group of people that believe in the same things," she continued. Gebbia works with crystals, candles, herbs, certain holy days, and the phases of the moon. She primarily honors “Mother Nature” in her practice.

Imeh Akpanudosen / Getty Images16. Australian artist and lead singer of 90s band Def FX, Fiona Horne, has always been a witch at heart.

Phil McCarten / Getty ImagesThe “I’ll Be Your Majick” singer came to terms with her supernatural identity after reading Ly Warren-Clarke's The Way of the Goddess. Horne divulged, “Here was a book about witchcraft or, more specifically, Wicca, that was both easy and thrilling to read, and I realized that, all along, I had been a witch.”

Enos Solomon / Getty Images17. Burn Notice star Gabrielle Anwar admitted that she identifies as Pagan.

John Sciulli / Getty ImagesAnwar finds strength in her Pagan beliefs to reject the constructs of modern gender roles and expectations. She opened up about her relationship with her ex-husband, John Verea, in a 2007 interview with The Orange County Register. “Being married is something I don’t care to repeat because, for me, it’s been an idea of something that is an unfair ritual,” Anwar confided.

Jean Baptiste Lacroix / Getty Images“Despite what a wonderful man he is, he was raised to believe this is woman’s work (raising children and performing domestic tasks). Even though he participates and is incredibly supportive compared to most fathers, I’m doing this work. I’m making dinner. I’m being a wife, trying to be as attractive as I can. [...] I’m pulling my weight financially. I’m doing all this stuff, and I’m feeling this incredible inequality…and I’m a pagan. I’m a pagan, and this isn’t for me. This institution [...] was invented to control women, and I’m not willing to be controlled any longer,” Anwar declared.

Gregg DeGuire / Getty ImagesSo, which of these supernatural celebs surprised you most? Is there a famous witch I forgot to mention? Tell me about them in the comments or fill out the anonymous Google form below.

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