14 Facts About Laurie Cabot

Laurie Cabot was born on March 6,1933 and is an American Witchcraft high priestess, and the author of several books.

Laurie Cabot founded the Cabot Tradition of the Science of Witchcraft and the Witches' League for Public Awareness to defend the civil rights of witches everywhere.

Laurie Cabot grew up in California and came east to New England as a teenager.

Laurie Cabot maintains that her interest in the occult began in childhood.

Laurie Cabot developed this interest in Boston through time she spent as a young woman in the halls of the Boston Public Library.

Laurie Cabot married and divorced twice, with each marriage producing a daughter.

Laurie Cabot chose to raise her daughters as Witches, and she began appearing in black robes and black eye-makeup in her everyday life.

The kind of Witchcraft that Laurie Cabot practices focuses on the Religion, Art and Science of Witchcraft.

Laurie Cabot opened the town's first "Witch Shoppe" in Salem in 1971, which became a tourist destination thanks to the national TV exposure.

In 1986, after the release of the film version of The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike's novel about single suburban women venturing into the occult, Laurie Cabot established the Witches' League for Public Awareness to counter negative images of her religion in popular culture and the media.

Laurie Cabot's shop sold herbs, jewelry, Tarot decks, and other items used in witchcraft.

Laurie Cabot later moved her shop to an old gambrel-roofed house on Essex Street.

Laurie Cabot still maintains an online business and sells her hand-crafted magic products at Enchanted, a witch shoppe on Pickering Wharf in Salem.

In March 2008, Laurie Cabot celebrated her 75th birthday at a surprise birthday party that was attended by hundreds of witches, including Sully Erna of the band Godsmack, for whom Laurie Cabot had appeared in the band's "Voodoo" music video, shot at Hammond Castle.