'I saw dead people as a kid, then I found out I was a witch' 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".
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.
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 .”.
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.”.
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.
