Sundays might be for rests and roasts but for Emma Griffin, the real life Molly Weasley a la Harry Potter, they included séances and "playing with dead people". That's because she is a self-acclaimed witch. The mum-of-two from Falmouth has even cast her spell on 262 would-be magic makers from across the world - by initiating them all as witches in one massive free Zoom session.
The 48-year-old remembers how growing up, her mum Pat and dad Pip would often hold a séance, exposing Emma and her brother Ben to otherworldly beings. Inheriting magical powers from her mum, Emma “came out of the closet - the broom closet” after her parents died from cancer respectively in 2019 and 2020, and is now a full-time witch - charging £100 for a “one-to-one guidance medicine reading .”.
She says: “I’m the real life Molly Weasley - everyone calls me that!” But, unlike the Harry Potter witch, she is a thoroughly modern Molly, with around 96,000 followers on Instagram and 40,000 on TikTok. While she has faced hostility from people saying she will “go to hell for working for the devil,” Emma says being a witch is “positive and natural.”.
She says: “It seemed normal for me to see – and play with – dead people from the age of just four. My first time was at Hampton Court, but ever since then, it’s happened very, very regularly. “My younger brother Ben and I knew our parents were different, but then, aren’t everyone’s?.
