Citations:WitchTok

Proper noun: "the community of witches and occult-oriented accounts on TikTok"

 * 2020, Sally Ward, "Bobo and Flex: 'The Aliens Are Coming'", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), September 2020, page 32:
 * The hosts talk astral projection, other dimensions, the nature of reality, shrooms, WitchTok, as well as aliens.
 * 2020, Phoebe Bowers, "The Dawn of Manifesttion", Quench (Cardiff University), November 2020, page 9:
 * Is ‘WitchTok’ to blame for the popularisation of manifestation amongst Gen Z?
 * 2020, Georgia Howe, "Finding My Community", Your Magazine (Emerson College, Boston, MA), November 2020, page 38:
 * I've explored Reiki and other energy work, as well as the “Witchtok” videos that show up on my TikTok feed.
 * 2020, Georgia Wilde, "Wom*nhood and Witchcraft: The Persecution and Perseverance of Wom*n Throughout Time", Underground (University of Technology, Sydney), Volume 5 (published 1 December 2020), page 93:
 * The internet has fostered the growth of these communities by providing pockets of spirituality such as astrology meme Instagrams, or the ever-growing force that is WitchTok.
 * 2020, Lola Yang, "Down the TikTok rabbit hole", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 2 December 2020, page 10:
 * Gen Z lesbians have found love through bonding on Alt TikTok and WitchTok.
 * 2020, Cassandra "Iowyth" Witteman, "The Witch: A Pedagogy of Immanence", thesis submitted to Lakehead University (Orillia, Ontario) in December 2020, page 107:
 * Recently, there was a sensation created when users of WitchTok, not a group but a loose subculture of witches using the popular app TikTok, claimed to have “hexed the moon” (Martin, 2020).
 * 2021, Caitlin O'Sullivan, "Something Wicked", Cherwell (Oxford University), 22 January 2021, page 3:
 * On TikTok, the 'WitchTok' community grew exponentially, with influencers posting tarot card readings, manifestations, and good luck spells that their followers could watch from home.
 * 2021, Gina Feliz, "Nasstrology: Valentines Day Edition", The Nassau Weekly, 14 February 2021, page 9:
 * Today is the day to take a risk (and maybe finally try out that spell you saw on WitchTok)!
 * 2021, Casey Daly, "Be wary of New Age spirituality wave on TikTok", The Daily Illini (University of Illinois),1 March 2021, page 6B:
 * And while TikTok might be the portal that piques a person's interest in an array of metaphysical topics and many renowned occultists partake in the app, the majority of the information on “witchtok” won't take you far without some substantial effort.
 * 2021, Olivia Hunt, "How to be (lowkey) TikTok famous", The USD Vista (University of San Diego), 11 March 2021, page 10:
 * The platform contains thousands of niche communities, from "FilmTok" (where people critique films or share their favorite movie scenes) to “WitchTok” (for those who practice witchcraft or wish to learn more about it).
 * 2021, Megan Taylor, "How have students been keeping busy over lockdown", The Badger (University of Sussex), 15 March 2021, page 27:
 * If you've hopped on the ever popular gravy train of TikTok (I caved a couple of months ago) you'll have seen the Witchtok society that have been on everybody's feed.
 * 2021, Megan Brooks, "The Magic of Crystals", Ohana, Issue 1 (2021), page 36:
 * Witchtok is a key thread in this new spiritual awakening, It [sic] also helps that the cost of joining in can be mostly free.
 * 2021, Tiarna Meehan, "Where Witchcraft Meets WhatsApp", Gum (Glasgow University), Spring 2021, page 56:
 * Recent years have even witnessed the emergence of 'WitchTok', practices performed by amateur witches, usually juvenile both in age and experience.
 * 2021, Marteena Mendel-Duckins, "New Age Witchcraft: The History Behind the Magick", Roaches (The American University of Paris), Issue 4 (2021), page 24:
 * “The recent rise of WitchTok (a portmanteau of witch and TikTok) is the only latest manifestation of the internet coven's magical ascendence,
 * 2021, Esmé Lily Katherine Partridge, "Digital Spirituality: Technological Re-Enchantment in 2020/1?: An exploration of Witchcraft and Reality Shifting on TikTok as (post)modern spiritualities existing in Wouter Hanegraaff’s ‘mirror of secular thought’", dissertation submitted to SOAS University of London in May 2021, page 19:
 * While much of WitchTok consists of practical tutorials such as these, it [sic] also rich with content that pertains more explicitly to the discourses of contemporary spirituality and (its relation to) organised religion.
 * 2021, Joshua D. Peterson, The Low Vibe Oracle: Official Guidebook, unnumbered page (published 14 June 2021):
 * This is obviously true in the mainstream community, as well—they release a new iPhone every 32 minutes—so you can't just log off Witchtok and escape it.
 * 2021, Jennifer Lane, The Wheel: A Witch's Path Back to the Ancient Self, unnumbered page (published 7 October 2021):
 * Bags from popular high-street stores read 'We are the Granddaughters of the Witches They Couldn't Burn' and TikTok (or WitchTok, if you will) shows up a thousand videos on how to cast a spell.