Prepared by Krys Copeland, Former Board Member of Witchcraft TV
For Witchcraft TV and the Broader Pagan Community
This report is a work in progress. At the time of writing, dozens of interviews, witness statements, and gigabytes of screenshots and documentation are still under review. As more survivors come forward and additional data are analyzed, further updates will be made. All vetted evidence is being stored here for public review.
This report will remain publicly viewable but locked from edits for transparency and integrity, with version updates noted clearly in the version history of the Google Doc.
It’s important to state: any one of the documented incidents in this report, on its own, is grounds for immediate deplatforming of Christian Day by any ethical Pagan or Witchcraft-based organization. To delay action under the premise of “waiting for more evidence” is to ignore the mountain already before you, and to risk becoming his next target.
While some minor timeline clarifications or expansions may be made as corroborations continue, the stories included here are already verified in substance, with supporting evidence from public records, first-hand accounts, and corroborating documentation.
The pattern is clear. The facts speak for themselves. The time for looking away has passed.
This report exists for one reason: to protect the Pagan community from a known abuser who has been enabled by silence, complicity, and profit. Christian Day has used his wealth, influence, and access to spiritual events and businesses to target women, BIPOC leaders, elders, queer practitioners, and anyone who challenges him.
This is not about personality conflict or “Witch Wars.” It is about documented abuse, including racial, sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Every claim in this report is supported by public records, screenshots, survivor statements, or journalistic documentation.
This report was initially prepared for the board of Witchcraft TV while I, Krys Copeland, was still serving as a board member. During the drafting process, Harold Carter III, President of Witchcraft TV, made the unilateral decision to platform Christian Day without prior consultation or consent from the board. I had already requested an emergency meeting to discuss Day’s known history of abusive behavior. That request was ignored.
Instead, Carter conducted and promoted a solo interview with Day, framed not as an investigation but as a promotional piece celebrating Day’s appearance on Ghost Adventures. Survivor comments were deleted and the survivors themselves were blocked by Harold Carter III. Concerns were reframed as personal grievances rather than legitimate issues of community safety. In response, I resigned from the board.
To be clear: platforming an abuser while silencing victims is not neutrality. It is complicity.
Since that time, several board members have spoken up. A recent board meeting resulted in meaningful policy changes, including:
These are important steps. But this report remains necessary.
It is not enough to quietly correct mistakes behind closed doors. The Pagan public, especially those who were harmed and silenced, deserves transparency. Until Witchcraft TV leadership — especially Harold Carter — issues a public apology to the victims affected by this decision, I cannot in good conscience return to the board.
To be clear: platforming an abuser while silencing victims is not neutrality. It is complicity. This report exists because no one should have to suffer in silence while their abuser is given a microphone.
In 2002, Christian Day was charged in Salem District Court for criminal harassment of fellow witch and community member Jody Cabot. This was not gossip. This was not an interpersonal conflict blown out of proportion. This was a court-acknowledged case of sustained harassment serious enough to result in criminal charges.
According to the Salem Police Department’s report (#02-1586-OF), Cabot reported that Day made repeated phone calls to her residence between May 27 and May 30, 2002. These calls were described as “emotionally disturbing” and unwanted. She told police that the harassment was direct, sustained, and affected her well-being.
The court charged Day with:
The case was filed under docket number 036CR1837. On July 10, 2002, Christian Day entered a plea of admission to sufficient facts, which is not a full guilty plea but legally functions the same: an acknowledgment that the evidence would likely lead to a conviction.
The court issued the following sentence:
Cabot’s request for protection was honored by the court. The charges were serious. The evidence was sufficient. The impact was real.
Day has never taken responsibility for this case publicly. In the years that followed, he would go on to harass and intimidate other women in the Pagan community using the same tactics: phone calls, messages, late-night intimidation, and escalation when boundaries were asserted.
This was the beginning of a clear pattern. And the first time the Pagan community could have — and should have — taken action.
Between 2012 and 2015, Christian Day subjected Lori Bruno (also known as Lori Sforza), a respected Salem-based witch priestess and founder of the Pagan church Our Lord and Lady of the Trinacrian Rose, to a campaign of escalating harassment. Bruno had previously offered readings at one of Day’s shops, but after ending their professional relationship, she became the target of his sustained verbal and online abuse.
Bruno reported receiving late-night phone calls from a private number, during which Day allegedly used obscene and misogynistic language. She also testified that Day posted malicious content about her on social media, including humiliating cartoons and derogatory comments about her and her family. The Guardian
“He called me the C-word.” — Lori Bruno (The Guardian, 2015)
In October 2015, Bruno sought and was granted a protective order against Day by a Salem District Court judge, who found her testimony "heartfelt and credible." The judge admonished Day for his repeated late-night calls and use of offensive language.
“You called her repeatedly and used a word that really no one should use toward any other person, a young woman or an elderly woman.” — Judge Robert A. Brennan (The Guardian, 2015)
After the ruling, Day denied any responsibility:
“On everything that is holy, I did not make those calls.” — Christian Day (The Guardian, 2015)
This reaction exemplifies a pattern in Day's behavior: when confronted with the consequences of his actions, he deflects blame and portrays himself as the victim, rather than taking responsibility.
This case highlights a pattern of behavior by Christian Day, characterized by harassment, misogyny, and attempts to undermine the credibility and well-being of female practitioners within the Pagan community.
Sources:
https://wildhunt.org/2015/11/salems-latest-witch-trial-makes-news.html
https://www.vice.com/en/article/warlock-claims-innocence-in-legal-battle-against-nemesis-witch
By 2014, the pattern of harm Christian Day had enacted on his critics took a darker, more targeted turn. Pagan author Amorella Moon (legal name: Amanda Parker) became one of the most brutally targeted individuals in his orbit.
What distinguishes this incident from earlier public disputes is the intention behind it: not just reputational damage, but deliberate emotional and psychological cruelty that was sexualized, violent, and designed to retraumatize a woman who had already expressed that she feared for her safety.
Amorella had previously confided publicly that she was being stalked. She expressed fear for her personal safety and the safety of her children. Instead of acknowledging that, or disengaging, Christian Day sent her a private Facebook message that said:
“I hope your stalker has some fun with you…if he rapes you, please call out my name while he does.”
— Christian Day, Facebook Messenger, 2014
This message is not ambiguous. It was not taken out of context. Amorella archived it in a public blog post and made it available to multiple Pagan groups as documentation of what had occurred. She titled the blog:
Bringing Light to Day – Shedding Light on the Ongoing Abuses of Christian Day
In her own words, Amorella wrote:
“It was not uncommon knowledge at the time that I had a stalker that I was hiding away from. A stalker whos [sic] favorite pastime was telling me he would let me pick out how my children would die.”
— Amorella Moon, blog post, 2019
In that post, she detailed the emotional toll it took on her to be taunted and then sexually threatened by proxy by a man who knew exactly the harm he was causing and did it anyway.
This message is not simply offensive. It constitutes a form of sexual abuse by proxy, a violent fantasy of control delivered to someone who was already vulnerable, and whose safety concerns had already been made public.
This incident escalated Day’s public behavior from abusive to sadistic. It crossed from cruelty into a space where sexual violence was suggested as a tool of punishment. This is not someone losing their temper. This is emotional terrorism, and it fits within the wider pattern of his behavior: when someone disobeys or challenges him, he retaliates in the most damaging way possible.
Documented Harm:
This is not an isolated incident. It’s a predictable escalation in a long-standing pattern.
In the spring of 2016, Alley Valkyrie was a journalist for The Wild Hunt. She publicly called out Ruth Barrett, a Cherry Hill Seminary instructor, for transphobic actions, specifically for inviting Cathy Brennan, a well-known anti-trans extremist, to contribute to a "goddess" anthology.
The controversy over Barrett and Brennan exploded across the Pagan community, resulting in Barrett’s resignation and Brennan’s open attacks on Alley across social media.
Rather than supporting Valkyrie or remaining neutral, Christian Day chose to side with the aggressors. Alley Valkyrie reported that Day amplified Brennan's attacks, sympathized with her, and even offered to help Brennan ruin Valkyrie:
“Christian Day decided to amplify her targeting, sympathizing with her (as he always does with fellow creeps), even at one point contacting her and asking if she wanted his help in ruining me.”
— Alley Valkyrie (private communication, April 22, 2025)
This began a pattern of targeted harassment against Alley.
Following the Brennan controversy, Christian Day intensified his attacks:
Alley Valkyrie documented the escalation in Christian Day’s behavior during this time, particularly highlighting a graphic and abusive email he sent to multiple people. In that email, Day described himself as a "public executioner" whose enemies would "cry for their mothers" after he was done with them. This grotesque and violent language shows how Day weaponized intimidation tactics against Pagan activists who spoke out against bigotry.
“I am not the leader of the angry mob. I am the public executioner. I am the horrifying fury that makes you cry for your mother. I am the hunger in the dark that you fear will someday find you.”
— Christian Day, email quoted on Rhyd Wildermuth’s website (July 25, 2016, https://rhydwildermuth.com/2016/07/25/public-a-brief-lesson-in-marxist-counter-magic/)
Rather than engaging thoughtfully, Day created new conflict, positioning himself as the real victim whenever he faced criticism.
Instead of accountability, Day launched a public harassment and blacklisting campaign against several Pagan writers, including Rhyd Wildermuth, Alley Valkyrie, Lasara Firefox Allen, and Jason Mankey. He accused them of spreading lies about him and retaliated by calling for a boycott of their work. Day posted a public offer of $10,000 to anyone who could produce proof that these writers had “cheered on racism,” turning legitimate concerns into a spectacle of intimidation and financial bullying.
"I am offering $10,000 for a screen capture either of me saying something racist in defense of Dorothy Morrison on her wall, or of 'cheering on' such racism, as Rhyd Wildermuth, Alley Valkyrie, and Lasara Firefox Allen have accused me of."
— Christian Day, Facebook post (July 2016, archived screenshot)
If Christian Day would like to stand behind his offer, several BIPOC priests and priestesses have already presented the proof he requires.
Rhyd Wildermuth, one of the targeted authors, described the situation bluntly:
"America’s best-known Capitalist Witch has declared an embargo on several Pagan authors."
— Rhyd Wildermuth, blog post on RhydWildermuth.com (July 26, 2016, https://rhydwildermuth.com/2016/07/26/public-author-solidarity/)
Day’s tactics were not just rhetorical. They aimed to financially harm, isolate, and discredit writers who challenged racist behavior within the Pagan community. This pattern of punishing critics rather than addressing criticism has repeated throughout Day's public life.
This harassment campaign fits Day’s known pattern:
His targeting of Valkyrie, a woman standing up for trans inclusion and survivor rights, reflects a broader, consistent pattern of misogyny, transphobia-adjacency, abuse apology, and deliberate public cruelty.
Sources:
The Pagan community refers to this multi-year, multi-thread event as “The Orion Thread.” The incident began as an online debate over cultural appropriation, centering on Utu Witchdoctor (a white Canadian man) and his public identification with the Underground Railroad and African American spiritual symbolism. But the conversation rapidly derailed, not because of the original accusation, but because of Christian Day’s spiraling public behavior throughout the thread.
Instead of facilitating or engaging in thoughtful dialogue, Day inserted himself with explosive and abusive rhetoric that included racial and sexual harassment, threats of violence, obsessive fixation on specific women of color, and calls for the public shaming and retaliation of anyone who disagreed with him. The screenshots capture more than 60 posts by Day, many of which include graphic insults and intimidation tactics aimed at multiple marginalized individuals.
“You miserable lying fucking cunt, Mambo T Chita Tann. You will fucking pay for this. Mark my fucking words. And so will everyone around you.” — Christian Day, public Facebook comment, 2017
At issue was Day’s claim that Mambo T Chita Tann had agreed to appear on his radio show “HEX Education” in 2013 to speak about Kemetic Paganism. Tann denied this, stating she had never accepted a booking. Day responded with an hours-long tirade, escalating to direct and repeated threats:
“Until you admit that lie, I will be on the fucking warpath against you like you read about.” — Christian Day
Even after Tann found screenshots suggesting she had at one time tentatively discussed a show appearance (not about Kemeticism), and publicly apologized for forgetting that detail, Day’s threats continued. He referred to her and others as “filthy fucking pieces of shit,” “fat cows,” “fucking behemoths,” and declared:
“You’re gonna be my new fucking chew toy.”
When his own former co-hosts and friends refused to back his narrative, he turned on them too, stating:
“Because Marie Loiseau, Hoodoo Sen Moise and Starr Casas refuse to defend me, they are no longer at HexFest. The fact that Demetrius who fucking HATES me can tell the truth but they can’t, they can all fucking die of cancer.”
His anger extended even to a stroke survivor, Marie, about whom he said:
“I told Marie right to her face that maybe another stroke will teach her to be nicer.”
This wasn’t just a personal meltdown. It was targeted cruelty against Black and Afro-Caribbean practitioners, women, and anyone vulnerable enough to be impacted by the fallout.
Day’s obsession with whether Black critics were “upset enough” at other white women teaching hoodoo became a repeated refrain. He attacked Black critics for not also condemning white women for the same behavior, an effort to redirect attention from Utu by weaponizing Black disagreement against itself.
“Why was Irene not upset at the five or six white women at that event who were teaching hoodoo, Japanese braiding, and yoga? Why aren’t you?” — Christian Day
The racial tone of these comments is impossible to ignore. Day used “witch wars” language to obscure the racialized context of the accusations. He repeatedly conflated critique with sabotage and portrayed himself and Utu as the real victims of racism and “mob mentality.” One of the most disturbing patterns throughout the thread is his mocking, taunting tone, posting GIFs of Muppets, "Still Waiting," and "It's been 84 years" in response to legitimate concerns about appropriation and abuse.
When called out on these behaviors, Day responded not with apology but with escalation:
“Do you really want to go to war with me? You’re gonna have the fight of your life and I’ve destroyed anyone who ever came against me.”
“I don’t believe in collateral damage, but if you’re gonna push me into a corner, I will fight back with everything I’ve got… I’ll scorch any earth I have to.”
He went so far as to threaten to call someone’s university, contact employers, and use “every fucking trick in the book” to retaliate against his critics.
Documented Harms:
This is not a Witch War. This is a calculated weaponization of influence. Day’s tirades do not reflect concern for tradition, justice, or community. They reflect the tactics of an abuser confronted with accountability: deflection, rage, and destruction.
Pattern Escalation: Public sadism, racist weaponization of discourse, mass threats, and gendered verbal assault.
In October 2022, Christian Day publicly harassed and demeaned Pagan content creator Jezebel Pride in a Facebook comment thread. The exchange began when Jezebel objected to a racially charged comment Day had made, referring to people with limited income as “low rent Obama phoners.” When she called it out, he escalated immediately.
In response to her critique, he replied directly:
"Jezebel Pride – most of what is said about me is false but if you choose to believe that over one comment you don't like, that's on you and your crazy."
— Christian Day, public Facebook comment, 2022
Rather than engaging with the content of her concern, he shifted to discrediting her mental state and publicly dismissed her as unstable.
He continued with:
"Jezebel Pride jeez what a wack job. What the hell were you doing here to begin with. And why stay in my friend’s list after a comment like that? No worries. I remedied that."
— Christian Day, same thread
The implication is clear: disagreeing with him invites retaliation, insults, and removal. But it didn’t stop there.
In accompanying private messages and comments (from the black screenshot with white text you provided), he ridicules Jezebel and others using a blend of elitism, classism, and mockery. Among his statements:
“What grave? While you subsist on cocktail weenies and government cheese, I have an empire.”
“If just one of you noncompoop naysayers had something to take, I’d own a hundred houses by now.”
“You sit there basking in the shadows of your far betters hoping for those scraps to trickle down.”
He then tells her:
“You’re a Satanist. You should know your place.”
These comments are not private disagreements. They are public humiliation, driven by ego and designed to shame, diminish, and dehumanize.
This incident demonstrates:
There was no apology. No accountability. Just another silencing of a voice that dared to speak.
In 2024, multiple people in the Pagan and magical community came forward to document a continuation of Christian Day's long-standing pattern of harassment, retaliation, and abuse. Among those who spoke publicly were Carlos Fundora, Sean Wilde, Voodeaux Doll Jai, and others, many of whom provided detailed public statements supported by screenshots.
What emerged was a disturbingly consistent pattern: if you questioned Christian Day, refused to participate in his private feuds, or attempted to hold him accountable, you became the next target.
Carlos Fundora, who had previously worked with Day, described what happened after he resigned:
"When I quit working for him, he immediately started a campaign of defamation and intimidation, which included outrageous violations of my privacy such as contacting my former domestic abuser (whom I hold two active restraining orders against) and helping her continue to harass and threaten me."
He confirmed that he brought evidence to court, thanks to others who stepped forward with documentation.
Day’s alleged actions included weaponizing Fundora’s past abuse, spreading lies publicly, and attempting to isolate him from the wider community. One of those targeted in the process was Sean Wilde.
Voodeaux Doll Jai reported that after refusing to join Day’s hate campaign against Carlos, she became the target of relentless abuse. She explained:
“I was harassed relentlessly via phone and internet at all hours of the night by Christian Day to the point where I had to deactivate my Facebook to stop him from tagging me in his vicious lies.”
In the same public statement, Voodeaux Doll Jai shared that Day referred to a call center worker with the following:
"I have to talk to rice patty Rita who can't take her mouth off G.I. cock for 5 minutes to talk to me."
Voodeaux Doll Jai described this moment:
"I nearly passed out when I heard that one."
She also shared that Day fired her for refusing to join the attacks on Fundora, then publicly accused her of infidelity:
"He publicly accused me of sleeping with Carlos like I don't have a spouse — a very famous one at that."
Voodeaux Doll Jai also stated that Day made derogatory comments about practitioners of Haitian and Caribbean traditions, referring to them as:
“Priest of the aboriginal tiki huts”
(Christian Day, ca. 2024)
As Voodeaux Doll Jai is of Haitian descent herself, she reported feeling directly targeted and dismissed as part of Day’s larger pattern of racism and disrespect toward Afro-Caribbean faiths.
After firing Voodeaux Doll Jai, Day reportedly begged her to return. When Voodeaux Doll Jai refused, Day escalated again:
"He then not only actively tried to stop me from..."
(The sentence was cut off in the screenshot, but context indicates attempted professional or social sabotage.)
From other screenshots, it's also clear Day admitted to reporting Wilde's underage daughter to ICE in retaliation, though the full context of this remains under further review. If confirmed, this would represent an unprecedented escalation involving a minor in cross-border retaliation.
These incidents taken together show the following pattern:
These are not isolated events or one-off outbursts. They are sustained, intentional, and part of a wider cycle of harm that has continued for decades across multiple cities, platforms, and communities. Mr. Fundora has a final warning for those who brush off the mountain of evidence against Day:
"Anyone who does business with Day will find themselves a target of his abuse and harassment sooner or later."
— Carlos Fundora, 2025
These reports reinforce a long-standing, deeply troubling pattern: when individuals attempt to distance themselves from Christian Day, refuse to aid in his personal vendettas, or speak publicly about his conduct, he responds with threats, public humiliation, racial slurs, privacy violations, and retaliation, even targeting their families and children. This is not interpersonal conflict. This is a system of coercive control that has played out over decades, across multiple victims, and in full view of the Pagan community. Silence has only enabled it.
In 2024, Christian Day turned his attention toward Keisha Hernandez, a well-known Hoodoo practitioner and spiritual reader from New Orleans, with deep ancestral and cultural roots in the city. Hernandez is widely respected not only for her work, but for the generational history her family holds in New Orleans spiritual communities.
She had previously worked as a reader at Omen New Orleans, one of Day’s shops. But, as she confirmed in a phone call on April 19, 2025, she left after hearing Day use racist slurs in person. She made clear that the moment he began saying these things openly, she knew she could no longer work under him in good conscience. “He started saying racist shit in front of me,” she told me. “That’s when I left.” She also said, “Before this, he tried to advertise me as a Marie Laveau type. She still has living relatives. This is so disrespectful.”
Since her departure, Day has launched an aggressive smear campaign against her online: making false claims, mocking her identity, and attempting to associate her with individuals facing criminal charges. In online posts, Day refers to her as “Krazy Keisha”, a slur deeply racialized in tone and intent. He also stated she "doesn’t have two nickels to rub together,” using financial shaming as a way to delegitimize her status and success.
In that same message, Hernandez demanded that Sassy Magick, an unrelated business and mutual acquaintance, be removed from Day’s deflection narrative. “Sassy Magick has nothing to do with Shelly and I,” she wrote. “That was all me. Remove Sassy Magick from this now.” She also directly warned Day to stop weaponizing the names of others as shields for his own accountability.
In our phone call, Hernandez confirmed that she still has video evidence of Day using racist language in the shop before she quit. She stated unequivocally that his behavior was not limited to tone or implication; it was explicit and repeated. Despite her departure being grounded in integrity, Day has now taken to targeting her reputation among the very community she belongs to, one that has already begun to reject his narrative and pull away from his business.
“He picked the wrong one. You don’t mess with those who actually come from this city and these traditions. I’m not the one.”
— Keisha Hernandez, phone call, April 19, 2025
This case is especially disturbing because of its intersection of racism, misogyny, spiritual entitlement, and retaliation. Rather than owning his actions or engaging her concerns directly, Day attempted to hide behind white fragility, escalate with police intervention, which as we all know ends far too often in police brutality when our BIPOC siblings are targeted, and discredit a respected Black woman spiritualist in a city that deeply values lineage and community integrity.
This is not an isolated outburst. It is part of a patterned, strategic effort to control and punish. When Black women challenge Christian Day, he escalates with threats, slurs, financial shaming, and police involvement. But Hernandez’s refusal to back down and her continued presence and respect in the community serve as a powerful example of resilience and resistance.
Between late 2024 and early 2025, Christian Day targeted Pagan author and elder Kerri Connor with a barrage of retaliatory emails, personal accusations, and manipulative messaging after she withdrew from WitchCon due to a serious medical procedure: a double mastectomy.
Connor initially informed Day and his team that she would not be participating in WitchCon 2025 due to health reasons. At first, he responded professionally, acknowledging her message. But shortly thereafter, he began an extended campaign of aggressive email harassment. The escalation began when Connor made a public comment about the media coverage of a rape accusation, pointing out the troubling disparity in public reaction and legal consequences between false accusers and actual rapists. Day mischaracterized her words, publicly accused her of “defending liars,” and began linking her name with the Duke Lacrosse case and other sensationalized media stories.
Despite being blocked on social, Day continued to email her, growing increasingly hostile and condescending. He accused her of trivializing rape, threatened her with reputational harm, and invoked his influence over the Pagan community as a means of intimidation. In one email, he said:
“You told me that you pulled out of WitchCon over health issues, and that’s why you pulled out. So now you’re admitting you lied… I already knew because you were defending a liar.”
He then followed up with a string of abusive messages, including:
“You trivialized what she did… You defended the Duke Lacrosse accuser… I detest Trump, but I also detest liars like… you.”
Connor remained professional and firm throughout the exchange, clarifying that her original statements were about systemic injustice, not personal support for anyone who commits harm. Nonetheless, Day persisted in distorting her words, threatening to remove her books from his shops, and dragging the matter out long after she had asked to be removed from all WitchCon correspondence.
This pattern of retaliatory communication reveals a now-familiar tactic in Day’s behavior: escalate, distort, and shame. When someone challenges him, even politely or in passing, he rewrites the narrative into a personal affront, often framing himself as the true victim while punishing others with disproportionate emotional aggression.
Documented Harm:
Kerri Connor’s experience adds another layer to the mosaic of Christian Day’s ongoing abuse: he does not merely lash out when attacked. He initiates new harm when others attempt to walk away peacefully. Her decision to maintain integrity under pressure speaks to the resilience of survivors and the urgent need for community accountability.
From June 2024 through April 2025, Christian Day pursued a sustained campaign of intimidation, defamation, and harassment against Karen Dales, a Wiccan High Priestess, Jewitch, and Witch Queen of the New Wiccan Church International (NWCI). The conflict began when Day demanded that Dales remove an individual from her clergy. Dales refused, citing her own ethical process, spiritual authority, and the fact that Day’s accusations were irrelevant to the mission and membership of NWCI.
In response, Christian Day unraveled into a pattern of emotional coercion, religious blackmail, and identity-based abuse that grew more disturbing with each interaction.
“You have now given me no choice but to bring the book of shadows into court to prove that calling her an oathbreaker is not disparagement but the basis of our religious beliefs.”
“If none of you believe in your oaths, then I don’t believe in any of you.”
— Christian Day, Messenger messages to Dales, April 2025
He further attempted to publicly discredit Dales by portraying her as complicit in what he calls “oathbreaking,” referring to her clergy’s past disputes with him.
“You are a liar, Karen, and many people warned me about that.”
“But the difference between you and I is that I’m just an asshole. I never lie.”
— Christian Day
Christian Day’s tone moved swiftly from manipulative to misogynistic. In messages to Dales, he called her a “fucking scumbag,” a “skank,” and “the worst kind of enemy.” He escalated to vulgar threats, stating:
“Though I do think Zachary’s new last name, Niarc, is apropos. Terrible oathbreaker. Right up your skank snatch.”
This language is not just unprofessional. It is gendered degradation, intended to humiliate and dehumanize Dales by attacking her sexuality, her religious leadership, and her body.
When emotional manipulation and slurs failed to produce the reaction he wanted, Day escalated further. He co-opted global suffering (the genocide of Palestinians) to publicly shame Dales for her Jewish identity:
“I have not used my platform to say a single pro-Israel thing since you did this and I won’t.”
“As far as I’m concerned, as long as you’re part of it, I don’t see the point of uplifting a religion that teaches liars to lie.”
— Christian Day
He then sent her an image reading “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free”, not in solidarity, but as an insult. This was not political engagement. It was weaponized trauma, used to punish a Jewish woman for defying him.
“Suck on this.”
— Christian Day, sending pro-Palestine imagery as a taunt
To be clear: Karen Dales has made no public statements advocating for genocide or the denial of Palestinian human rights. The only post this investigation found that could be twisted into controversy was one post calling to end protest violence on the part of Palestinian supporters, an interpretation so forced that Day must be a yoga teacher to make that stretch. In actuality, Karen supports peace and fundamental human rights for all people.
As the author of this report, I feel it’s necessary to clarify that I personally support the Palestinian cause. I have attended several peaceful protests and events in the Netherlands for the cause. I buy Palestinian and boycott Israeli products and companies. I support the cause both financially and through volunteering. I work closely with students currently living in Palestine under Israeli occupation, and I have personally witnessed the consequences of colonial violence on their lives. I believe in justice and liberation. But I do not believe in using Palestinian suffering as a club to attack Jewish spiritual leaders or any Jewish people who refuse to bow to personal demands from petty abusers. That’s not solidarity. That’s manipulative bigotry. I also do not advocate for violence at protests. Violence very rarely does anything positive for the cause it claims to support.
Christian Day’s behavior in this incident includes:
His language is not political speech. It is abusive escalation, and it fits the exact pattern we've seen in other cases: when women, especially those with spiritual authority, refuse to comply with his demands, he retaliates with humiliation, coercion, and coordinated public shaming.
Karen Dales’s refusal to engage and her decision not to respond to his vitriol with equal fire speak volumes about her character. The same cannot be said for Christian Day, whose conduct here is not only morally reprehensible but dangerous to the well-being of individuals in our community, especially women and Jewish-Pagan folk.
Christian Day is not a community elder. He is not a provocateur. He is a serial abuser.
The evidence spans courtrooms, private messages, public interviews, and 20+ years of corroborated testimony. He has used glamour, classism, and identity manipulation to deflect responsibility. This stops now.
This report was written solely by me, Krys Copeland, in my personal capacity as a Pagan community advocate, as well as in my official roles:
I am bound by a total of three separate oaths to stand with Day’s victims. If I continued collaborating with those who platform him, I would be an oathbreaker.
I am no oathbreaker.
My resignation followed a unilateral decision by Harold Carter, Witchcraft TV’s President, to feature Christian Day under the justification of “free and fair representation” without board consultation. He then proceeded to silence survivors by deleting, blocking, or ignoring comments that raised legitimate, documented concerns.
Let me be clear:
Since that time, several board members have pushed back. In a recent meeting, the board began implementing new safeguards, including:
However, this is not enough for me to consider my oath kept if I were to rejoin the Board of WCTV. If Witchcraft TV leadership, including Harold Carter, publicly apologizes to the victims who were silenced, acknowledges the damage caused by that decision, and makes a clear commitment to transparency and survivor safety, I will be open to rejoining the board in service of these shared values.
Until then, I stand fully and without compromise with the people Christian Day has harmed.
To Witchcraft TV, and to all Pagan organizations, events, platforms, and practitioners, I offer the following recommendations:
I recognize that every organization must make its own decisions. However, let me be absolutely clear:
If Witchcraft TV, or any Pagan organization or individual, chooses to collaborate with Christian Day in any capacity moving forward,
they will not collaborate with me.
That is not a threat. That is a boundary, one I intend to hold.