Summary

In "White Witchery: An Introduction," the narrator, Elissa Washuta, says that she first realized she wanted to do magic after buying a cheap mood ring. Now, at 32, she owns a variety of healing crystals that she worries were not sourced in a moral way. She also says that she once went to pick huckleberries with her aunts, but found that all of them were gone because the white people got there first.

Washuta says that witches once got angry when Sephora planned to sell a starter witch kit, but she kept her opinion to herself. She read books about witches as a child and searched the web for ways to make magic like the Wiccans. In 2015, she decided to try and access the power herself. However, she does not call herself a...