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January 16, 2025 20 mins

George Noory and spiritual teacher Sabrina Scott discuss her work as a witch casting spells, how to use magic to protect yourself from curses and negative energy, and how Hollywood and popular culture have given witches a bad reputation.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Sabrina Scott with a spiritual teacher, tarot card reader as
well as a transformative life coach whose work helps people
claim their magic and change their lives.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Working with a global clientele.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
She's a professional witch whose work has been featured in magazines,
radio shows and documentaries.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sabrina, welcome back.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm absolutely
elated to be on the air with you. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's been five years. Where have you been, Oh.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Geez, busy doing witchcraft stuff, writing books and helping people. Honestly,
it's what I spend a lot of my time doing,
and that's what I've been up to.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
How did you become a witch?

Speaker 4 (00:52):
So it's a long story, but the very short version
is I grew up in something called spiritualism, which means
I grew up with seances and mediums and people doing
energy healings on the congregation and so growing up around
all of that, it did not take me that long

(01:13):
to get interested in witchcraft. So I was. I grew
up with a lot of witchcraft was normal, magic was normal,
mediumship was pretty typical. So that's the short version.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
When we think of magic, a lot of us think
of magicians with Dexa cards doing special things and stuff
like that. Magic is different from that, isn't.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
It It is. I do respect what those folks do
because it can definitely be very entertaining. But the type
of magic that I do is it's not quite about
sleight of hand and performance. It's much more about actually
creating energetic shifts, whether that is internally or externally, helping

(02:00):
people become happier, healthier, and also the fund stuff like
getting a new job, a new lover, all of that
type of thing. So it really is about creating lasting
change in people's lives rather than a momentary bit of entertainment.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Is magic supposed to be sabrina positive and uplifting, you
know what?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Most of the time I would say yes, But I
do want to be honest and say that sometimes we
do have to protect ourselves with magic. If we're in
a bad situation, if we're feeling a bit unsafe, or
we are experiencing negativity, sometimes we are going to have
to do some more protective magic. Let's say, or sometimes

(02:44):
even clap back, so to speak at someone who is
trying to make our life a little bit difficult. That's
not what we do all the time. But just like
real life magic, it takes the whole spectrum.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
What is black magic? Oh my?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
So I do get asked this a lot, and I
think when people use that phrase black magic, what they
usually mean is magic that is done to harm people
or to be nasty for no reason. Yeah, that is
kind of the pop culture way of looking at it.
The way that I see it is that magic actually

(03:27):
doesn't have a color, and depending on our intention, it
just takes on that type of vibration. So it might
make sense, let's say, to do a protection ritual, or
to do a ritual that is a little bit more
aggressive if someone is attacking you. If you're going to

(03:48):
defend yourself against someone in a mundane situation, sometimes magic
can help with that as well. So it really is
all about perspective and context is a way I try
to think about it.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
How does religion handle magic, Sabrina, That's a good question.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
I do feel that magic is non denominational, so I
do think that no matter what your religion is, you
can absolutely work with witchcraft and magic within that. Not
everyone's going to agree with me on that, but that's
how I feel. I feel like magic is basically energy work,
and so anyone can work with energy, no matter what

(04:28):
their religion is, whether they're Christian, Jewish, Atheist, Mormon, anything,
anyone can work with witchcraft and magic.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
In my opinion, Can you be harmed by magic?

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah? Absolutely, I do see it happen, and a big part,
not a big part, but at least a little bit
of my professional practice is helping people heal from that
and undo some negative impacts, let's say, of the evil
or just bad vibes being thrown their way. So absolutely.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Now when we think a witchcraft lately, I think of Wicca,
a religion which is pretty up beat, so it's very nice,
there's nothing evil about it.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Are you a Wickan.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I'm not a Wickan, but I'm glad that you brought
up Wicca because just in case your listeners aren't a where.
Wicka was founded in the nineteen fifties in England, pretty interesting,
very nature based religious practice, and it was actually responsible
for bringing a lot of witchcraft into popular culture. So

(05:38):
once Wicca was founded, we really do see a big
resurgence of the witch in pop culture, which is pretty cool,
but not all which is our wickan personally, I am
not a big aspect of wicked practice is being very
doosistic and working with gods and goddesses and they work
with covens, and that there's a particular way of doing

(06:00):
things and a particular hierarchy, and the way that I
personally practice is a little bit less to do with
all of that. So I would rather work with ancestor
spirits and the occasional saints and working with the energies
of the land different.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
But has Hollywood tanked witchcraft? You think of the Wizard
of Oz and the handling Gretel and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
You know what, it has a little bit, It has
a little bit, and so oftentimes I do have to
kind of undo some of those assumptions and preconceived notions
that people might have due to some of the films
in Hollywood. But you know, I enjoy Harry Potter as
much as the next person, even though it's absolutely got

(06:51):
nothing to do with with the witchcraft that I practice.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
What about curses? Where do they originate from?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Curses? Man? There's so much to say about curses, the
origin of them, I can't quite tell you. I'm sure
there are curses though in every single spirituality around the world.
Everyone's always wanting to get back at people who have
harmed them, and that often tends to be what I've

(07:21):
experienced the origin of curses to be. It's often just
coming from a place of wanting to either protect yourself
or to get yourself ahead. So again, I do think
it is mainly contextual, but I generally advise that folks
don't practice cursing. It's often a much better use of

(07:42):
our time to focus on ourselves.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Why do people kind of take woodchcraft with evil. It's
not necessarily the case at all, No, not at all,
but people tie that in.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Why I do think again, it's the pop culture piece.
So you do see a lot of witches featured in
horror movies and freaky scary movies, and there tends to
be a lot of gore and supernatural horror, and I
totally respect that as a genre, but I definitely do

(08:15):
think it is at least partly responsible for these misconceptions.
So I think that's one aspect of it, and then
the other aspect I think is a lot of times,
people are really afraid of what they don't really know
that much about, so it's easy to paint it with
that brush of evil. But the more we know about something,
the less likely we are to paint it with that brush.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Sabrina, how do you use witchcraft?

Speaker 4 (08:43):
A lot of different ways. It depends on what I
want to get done, So my day to day tends
to be working with my ancestors a lot of prayer.
It isn't actually as fantastical looking as many people might
think just from pop culture and film. It usually just
looks like sitting in front of a few candles, closing

(09:06):
my eyes and meditating or visualizing or something of that nature.
But I've definitely done witchcraft and magic in the past
for various issues in my life, such as money, love,
finding a new home, attracting prosperity and luck, protection against
bad vibes. I've done cleansing magic whenever I've moved into

(09:30):
a new location or just had a bad experience and
wanted to get that bad energy off of me. So
you really can use it for a variety of things.
And one really fun way of working with magic I
think a lot of people aren't super aware of is
kitchen witchery, so different ingredients that we all are going
to be working with all the time anyway, since we

(09:52):
all have to eat a lot of these foods and
plants are associated with various things that we can bring
into our lives with magic. And it's all about intention
and energy. So it really is, in my perspective, just
a way of living our lives. It doesn't have to
look like waving a wand around and making potions, so

(10:12):
it absolutely can look like that. It can also just
look like living life with intention and being aware of
the energy that we are putting into the world and
working with the energy that we're noticing around us all
the time and shaping that with intention, so taking control
of our lives rather than being a passenger.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Can it be used for harm and something nefarious? Let
me give you an example. A worker guy, a coworker's
working with another coworker and the first co worker is
up for a promotion the second The second coworker wants
that job, so he wishes the first guy harm. I
want him sick, I want him dead, I want him

(10:56):
in an accident. Can Can can it work that way?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Absolutely? Yeah? Absolutely? I had work done on me in
that way quite a long time ago. This would have
been fifteen years ago.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Now, can you talk about it?

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah? Absolutely so. I had a friend at the time
who turns out was a little bit of a frenem
me I suppose you.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Could say, nice, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
I didn't know that until this happened. But I was
waiting to get this surgery that was a cosmetic thing,
shall we say, and I was really excited about it,
and thinking that she was my friend, I told her
all about it. I was so excited and leading up
to the surgery, I actually believed that she sent me

(11:43):
the evil Eye and sent me a lot of bad vibes.
I ended up getting very very sick and I just
completely out of nowhere. The doctors didn't really know what
it was. Thankfully, since I had that hunch that that's
what she was doing, I was able to do some
spiritual work on myself to just come completely clear all
of her bad vibes that she's sent towards me and

(12:04):
the evil Eye, and just really protect myself spiritually. And
as soon as I did that, I was able to
recover very very quickly within twenty four hours, and was
able to get the surgery with absolutely no complications. It
was completely fine. But if I did not look at
it from a spiritual perspective, I do think it's very

(12:25):
likely that I would have had to have rescheduled that procedure.
So I definitely do believe in the evil eye and
bad vibes and people throwing negative energy at people they're
jealous of, which I think that's what the case was
for me with this situation. I think she was just jealous,
and jealousy is a very powerful energy that oftentimes people

(12:47):
will throw around at each other, sometimes without even being
aware that they're doing it, which is why spiritual protection
work and spiritual hygiene, I feel is super super important
for everybody, regardless of if you consider yourself a witch
or not.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Well, goodness outweigh you evil most of the time.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
I guess it depends on who you're asking.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
You have a cute.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh, thank you. I try to keep it positive, and
you know, I think working with witchcraft so much throughout
my life, it really does change your perspective and connect
you to your own agency. And I think when we
feel like capable of people in our own lives, capable

(13:37):
of creating change, it is easier to be a bit
of a happier, more jolly person. So I know that's
laughing all the time. For some people might think it's
a little bit odd, but it really just is a
natural way of life for me. Since I've really developed
this witchcraft practice, life just feels so much more fun

(13:57):
and enchanted and excited, and just the colors are bright,
everything looks fantastic and it's easy to feel like the
world is an exciting, fun place with magic.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Now, you just had I mentioned that if you didn't
have the ability to ward off the evil intent, it
could have harmed you. So what do we do with
people who don't have your ability to fight back?

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Mmmmm yeah, absolutely. So this is a big reason why
I spend so much of my time teaching other people,
and I do offer consultation services with witchcraft where I
can actually do work for people. But what I much
prefer to do is to actually give people the tools
to do it themselves. Rather than to buying a fish

(14:45):
for me, I would rather teach you how to fish,
so to speak. And so I really do feel, whether
it's for me or someone else, it's so important for
folks to take that personal responsibility to learn about energy
and how to protects ourselves from negative vibes. And so
one of the ways that I will usually begin to

(15:07):
teach people about this is by using the very simple
example of Okay, have you ever walked into a room
and just felt a bad vibe?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well?

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Yeah, most people will say yes. I've actually never had
anyone ever, even the most skeptical person, No one has
ever said no to that question. And so I'll use
that just to explain. Okay, so feeling the bad vibes,
that means that you were noticing the energy in the room.
So that means that you notice energy. Okay, that's amazing.

(15:41):
That basically proves the people that Okay, wow, there are
these vibes around. Sometimes I notice them, sometimes I don't.
And so the more you pay attention to it, the
more you tend to notice. And then following that noticing
what I call in my work energetic noticing, we can
then decide, Okay, do we want to leave the situation completely,

(16:03):
which sometimes makes sense to do that, but if it's
a workplace, let's stay. As opposed to, I don't know,
a bus that you're getting on and you're feeling a
bad vibe on the bus, it's very easy to get
off the bus and wait for the next one. But
if you feel a bad vibe at your workplace or
with family, obviously you can't exactly just leave. And so
in those situations, I tend to invite people to think

(16:25):
about spiritual protection. So that would be doing something, let's
say called shielding. There's so many different ways to protect
ourselves spiritually and energetically, but that would be a big one.
And so what's shielding. Basically, what we're doing is we're
creating an energetic force field around ourselves. And that energetic

(16:46):
force field, we can picture it as a big white
bubble or a different color of bubbles. And people like
to picture like a glowing pink ball around you, whatever
makes sense. We all have our favorite colors. Personally, I
love to picture a big glowing white ball around me.
And we're picturing that protecting us, and we're really focusing

(17:06):
on that, visualizing that, and the important part is to
visualize what happens when bad vibes come towards us, right,
And so what I always encourage my students to do
is to visualize the bad vibes coming towards us and
then bouncing right off. And so by doing that, we
get to pro what we call programming our shield to

(17:26):
protect us from bad energy. And so it does take
some time to get right. It might not go exactly
perfectly the first try, but with practice and with skill,
this is something that my students are able to do.
And it's a very very easy, magic one oh one
type of thing, and we can protect ourselves from those

(17:47):
negative energies with Oftentimes, I'm sure you've probably felt this too.
Some bad vibes can leach on to you and kind
of ruin your day, ruin your week. And so with
this type of spiritual hygiene practice, I just see it
as very similar to a spiritual version of brushing your teeth.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Got what I what I do is if I'm in
event or a room and I pick up this negative energy,
I try to diffuse it by going right at it,
trying in trying to make that individual who generally is negative,
upbeat and positive. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But

(18:27):
is that a smart thing for.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Me to do?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
It's interesting that you ask that, Actually, so, have you
ever got the feeling to not do that or not? Always?
That's always a.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Tactic, it's almost always a tactic.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
Have you ever felt sick? After doing that.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
No, I've been lucky.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
That's good. And you know what, that might not be luck.
That could actually be that you're already doing some kind
of spiritual protection to work on yourself just by being
a positive person.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Could it be an inherent in me? I was born
with them?

Speaker 4 (19:10):
It could be. I do think some people are much
better at that than others, just naturally, and some people
have very poor spiritual boundaries just naturally. So it sounds
like you actually might have pretty decent spiritual boundaries just naturally.
That being said, I would pay attention to whenever you're

(19:30):
noticing that in the future, just take a moment to
feel what the energy is around that person. Is it malicious?
You might actually end up having let's say a one
hundred percent success rate and noticing, Okay, this person is
just negative. Nothing I do or say is going to
make them be positive, and so I know that this

(19:53):
person is not going to not going to be positive
at all.

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