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\u00a0<\/strong>Fox News<\/em> host Jesse Watters recently featured a segment asking \u201cWhy are Women so Mad These Days?<\/a>\u201d He interviewed a woman named Mia Banducci, a witch who goes by the name \u201cMia Magick.\u201d Banducci hosts what are called \u201crage rituals,\u201d where women go out into the woods to release their \u201csacred rage.\u201d Video shared of the ritual shows women rubbing themselves with dirt, beating the ground with sticks, and screaming at the tops of their lungs. Banducci, who promotes herself dressed as a witch on her website, describes herself<\/a> as \u201can ambassador for the ancient magikal way returning home to our modern day\u201d and that her \u201cmission is to reclaim our unique and eternal inner wisdom, what makes us a \u2018Witch,\u2019 to bring our visions to fruition. My life is dedicated to reawakening the power of the feminine Divine Nature for us all to reconnect with the unconditionally loving Great Mother Goddess on our planet.\u201d Banducci told Watters she offers her sessions as a way to heal.<\/p>\n

The interview did not impress Jenn Nizza, a former witch who converted to Christianity and has devoted her life warning others against dabbling in the occult. Speaking to The<\/em> Christian Post<\/em><\/a>, she criticized Banducci\u2019s assertion that she wants to help women heal. \u201cThe problem with this is that, one, you’re pointing to something demonic \u2014 you’re pointing to man, and you’re pointing to the devil \u2014 to heal from trauma wounds, and it can’t heal,\u201d she said. She went on to add that, \u201cBeating the earth until you’re blue in the face cannot heal you,\u201d and that the women were \u201copening demonic doors.\u201d She pointed to Banducci\u2019s financial gains, rage rituals can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars, as an even further \u201cdemonic contradiction. \u201cThe money is the icing on the cake, because you\u2019re not going to have the devil without money. It\u2019s going to cost you and cost you, and you\u2019re going to be that little hamster on the wheel,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what it is, because there\u2019s not any solution. There\u2019s no true healing. Demons don\u2019t heal. Demons don\u2019t care about your daddy issues. They don\u2019t care. They just want you to stay away from God.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Nizza has called out the network, nor is it the first time this year Watters has featured occult practices. In January, he had \u201cThe English Psychic\u201d Paula Roberts read tarot cards<\/a> about the upcoming 2024 election. In a segment separate from Watters, \u201cFox and Friends\u201d featured an astrologist who discussed the upcoming solar eclipse and the ways it might impact people\u2019s lives. The astrologist also offered predictions for the hosts. Nizza posted a TikTok in response to the segment, asking Fox News <\/em>to stop highlighting the occult. \u201cThis is what the devil does; this is his agenda,\u201d she said. \u201cI understand the desire for ratings and for money, but you’re not going to take that with you when you go. I would really think about that: serving God and pleasing God, not man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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