In 2018, a drummer from Beyoncé’s backup band accused the musician of practising vindictive witchcraft. According to The Blast, she even sued the singer, claiming Beyoncé dabbled in “extreme witchcraft, dark magic”. The case was thrown out.

Meanwhile, Beyoncé has since leant heavily on southern gothic aesthetics and Cajun influences of the Louisiana Bayou, which historically has associations with witchcraft.

While we’re not here for a witch hunt (um, 16th century much?), we wouldn’t be surprised if Beyoncé had magical powers.

Lorde claims to have seen the ghost of David Bowie, something she says is not really “a surprise”. Why? “I am basically a witch,” she said.

“It would be no surprise to anyone I am not weirded out by ghosts or spirits. I am basically a witch,” Lorde told The Daily Telegraph.

In 2017, Lana Del Rey encouraged her followers to do a binding spell on Donald Trump. Later, when asked if she did it herself, she said: “Yeah, I did it. Why not? Look, I do a lot of shit.” Unfortunately, given he’s headed back to the White House it didn’t appear to work that well.

In a follow-up Billboard article, Lana confessed to being “a mystic at heart”. “I’m in line with Yoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] and the belief that there’s a power to the vibration of a thought. Your thoughts are very powerful things and they become words, and words become actions, and actions lead to physical charges,” she said. “I really do believe that words are one of the last forms of magic and I’m a bit of a mystic at heart.”

Since then, Lana has posted mystic pursuits to her Instagram, including Tarot. Now, recently married to an alligator tour guide based in New Orleans, we hope Lana will get to flex her nature-loving, cosmically-inclined talents.

The Olsen Twins are more than just their witchy, boho vibe. They dabble in witchcraft like smudging (clearing a space of negative energies) and crystal healing. “I sage everything, all the time. Constantly sage’ing. I don’t want bad energy,” Mary-Kate Olsen told Vogue in 2017.

Meanwhile at The Row Fall 2018 runway, they gifted attendees either a black or white quartz crystal. “This crystal is a protective stone which repels and blocks negative energies,” the twins wrote in an accompanying text. “It also works in reducing fear and increasing focus.” They also recommended cleaning the crystals in a 24-hour salt bath.

One of the OG pop culture witches, Stevie Nicks is famous for her ethereal persona. Her songs are filled with references to the occult, particularly her the Fleetwood Mac hit ‘Rihannon’, which fans took to be about herself as a witch. The lyrics go: She is like a cat in the dark / And then she is to darkness / She rules her life like a fine skylark / And when the sky is starless. Although Nicks has since said the song is about a powerful goddess, she would occasionally introduce it as “this is a song about a witch” when she performed it live.

Whether or not Nicks is technically a witch, she’s always leant into the reputation. She even parlayed her witchy appeal into appearances on Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story. She also contributed two songs to the Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman film, Practical Magic.

Despite protesting that she’s not a witch (she just likes to wear black, okay?!), Nicks has said the following: “I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.”

Vanessa Hudgens is a straight-up, self-admitted witch. Before she confessed, the evidence was indeed everywhere. As of 2025, her Instagram bio is decorated with crystal balls and includes the phrase “look for the magic all around you”.

Meanwhile, in 2023, when Nylon asked if she felt like a witch she said “yes”. “I’ve always been drawn towards the darkness and the unknown, as well as herbalism ever since I was a kid. And nature. I always felt the most grounded and connected when I was surrounded by trees,” she said, adding that witchcraft connects her to “my angels, my ancestors, my spirit guides, my spiritual brigade.”

Finally, Hudgens says she has a ‘vision’ gift that allows her to see ghosts.

In 2017, Evan Rachel Wood told Cosmopolitan UK that she always carries “sage and the gemstone tiger’s eye. For cleaning demons out of places!”

Then in 2018, Evan revealed she had her aura read before testifying before congress about her experience with abuse and trauma. Post testimony, she went back with the New York Times in tow and had it read again. The Times journalist Melena Ryziik wrote: “She was still glowing lavender — ‘wonderful storytellers, writers and artists,’ the description said. ‘They have the talent to visualise and describe magical, mystical worlds.’ But where before her emotional chart looked like a jagged mountain range, now it was flat, calm. ‘Speaking your truth!’ she said.”

Aubrey Plaza has leaned in to her witchy vibe, both on screen and off. Her professional witchy pursuits include playing one in Agatha All Along, and also penning a children’s book called The Christmas Witch. As part of its publicity tour, she went door-knocking as a red-cloaked witch, and even wore the outfit while doing media interviews.

Apparently, Aubrey even does ‘spells’, but she still wouldn’t call herself a witch. “Let me start by saying that I’m not a Wiccan,” she told Marie Claire in 2013. “I’m just into dealing with the universe in a different way. I call them spells, but they’re not spells in the way people think. I love smoking out negative energy.

“One spell I think I did well was when I recently moved into my new house. I came in before the furniture arrived and opened all the windows. I got some sage and crystals, and I clapped in every corner and said, ‘this house is going to be full of positive energy.'”