How Jesus Saved This Former Witch from the Occult
By Movieguide® Contributor
After Angela Scafidi’s grandmother died, she thought she could connect with her again through a medium.
That’s how her path to witchcraft started, but it finished with Scafidi crying out for God. And He came.
“This is the initiation, what I say…it was like the right of passage,” she explained on Lecrae’s podcast about her first interaction with demonic forces. “So essentially this woman is a witch, but she wouldn’t call herself that, but that’s what she [was]. [She was practicing] divination. So I thought I was talking to Grandma through this, [but it was] the familiar spirit.”
“That can tell you everything about Grandma?” Lecrae asked.
“That’s right…That’s kind of how it works though…because Jesus needs agreement from us right? Like he needs agreement from us to receive. We are saved by grace through our faith, so we have to actually agree with Him, so you know everything in the kingdom of dark is a counterfeit of the kingdom of light,” she explained.
She believes you also have to allow the “kingdom of the dark” to let it have a hold over you.
“So with the demonic, there has to be an agreement and this is how they do it. Like, they rope you in. They tell you like 90% truths just so they have access with a 10% lie, and of course, a 90% truth is a 100% lie. So I was roped in with that, and that was like the agreement that I gave to these spirits to have access to me in my life, and that day she had cards out, you know, after all that’s said and done, and she’s giving me these very — by the way — kind and loving messages from Grandma that she’s always with me and I can always talk to her and she knew all the stuff that we had gone through together, and it was so comforting to me.”
“And of course, like I said, that’s the agreement. So she had the cards out. I picked a card up, and that led me to like want to go home and buy cards, like oracle cards, which led me to wanting to buy a book about my own mediumship and how I can do what that lady did because I thought that was awesome, that she was helping people,” she explained. “It started to develop a sense of purpose for me, that I was actually super spiritual and I just didn’t know it, and that led to the crystals.”
Scafidi experimented with witchcraft over the span of eight years. She eventually became intrigued with occultism and the new age.
“It’s all like a domino,” she told Lecrae. “It’s like you press one and then…the door opens another door because you’re not ever really satisfied. It’s like you’re trying to drink from all these cisterns, and you’re just still so thirsty. But you’re also becoming addicted to it because I always call them spiritual narcotics; it’s like you get highs from this kind of stuff.”
“There were times where I mean when I first got the crystals like holding them in my hands, I could feel it,” she recalled.
She would also hold the crystal against her forehead or “third eye.”
“I could feel them vibrating. I could feel the energy and…I felt high, and I would smoke weed at this time, too, so I knew what that felt like already, and I didn’t even need the weed for it.”
“I had this one book called ‘Conversations with God,’ which is important to note because…just like the medium, I thought like now I’m actually getting to know God. This looks nothing like the God that they taught us about in Catholic school that’s like really scary and mean and you have to confess to this guy in a little cubicle to talk to him. I thought that this was how I could access God, and it was partially because of all of these teachings.”
All of the occultist books she read teach that everyone is already “one with God” because God is the universe, and you’re part of the universe.
“You are nothing more than a fragment of the universe and so what we’re all kind of doing…all these fragmented bits, just trying to become whole again. Back to source. But then it’s like this interesting paradox where you understand you’re like a fragmented piece of the universe but you’re also perfect and you’re also whole and you’re also complete, so it doesn’t really make sense when you really start to break it down,” she explained.
“Like I say all the time that it’s a house of cards when you start to logically talk through the ideologies, and so the book, ‘Conversations with God,’ was basically an undoing of the Bible…The guy that wrote it said that he heard from God, and it’s called automatic writing; it’s like channelling. So obviously it’s not the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit wouldn’t undo His word, but the whole book was about how like sin isn’t real and there’s no such thing as good. There’s no such thing as evil.”
She notes that witchcraft consists of “duality” where some bad is needed in order for there to be good.
“Like we need to embrace the dark to have the light. Like these sorts of things,” She said. “So that was one of my favorite books…I did have The Four Agreements…It’s Toltec. So basically the spiritual philosophy behind the Toltec is that everything is a complex energy system, so it’s all consciousness.”
“It’s like energy has consciousness. Everything has consciousness to it okay and it’s going back to what I just mentioned like that whole idea of the universe,” she explained. “…It’s antithetical from the monotheistic god of the Bible because it’s more of like a pantheistic thing. It’s like we are all God sort of thing and stuff, and books like this seem so good because it’s like embracing from what it seems on the outside like good qualities, like, things that we should strive to be.”
She believes that evil constantly masquerades as light, but it’s actually all lies.
“So the thesis of new ageism is 2 Corinthians 11:14 where it says, ‘Satan masquerades as an angel of light.’ So he doesn’t come with a pitchfork and he doesn’t he comes as everything that you think.”
“’The Power of Now,’ which you know, is another book. It’s like about how you create your own reality. So now you’re the creator right?…But I would have never touched a Bible,” she said.
But now, Scafidi is transformed by her relationship with Christ.
“You know how the word says, ‘What the enemy meant for harm, the Lord will use for good? So it’s like all these ways, like the devil thought he had me, now has been completely redeemed,” she told Lecrae. “Because now I’m able to do this. Like I can tell people like, ‘Hey that’s actually witchcraft, and that actually has no place in the church.”
Scafidi’s best friend was a Christian. When she found out Scafidi was delving into the dark arts, her friend prayed for her. She believed that those prayers were what blocked her from falling in deeper and specifically was the reason why she never successfully astral projected.
When her mental health started to really tank, she realized that none of the spiritual things she was doing were helping her. One day in 2021, she lay on the kitchen floor and cried out, “Jesus, save me.” The next day, she woke up with a sound, clear mind without any anxiousness or depression.
She started to read the Bible, and it was another three or four months before she truly gave her life to God. She felt whole conviction when she read Isaiah 47, which says that the fortune tellers and those who do witchcraft could not save the Babylonians.
She repented and asked her Christian friend to help her burn all of her witchcraft items and never looked back.
But she didn’t go on that journey alone. Her boyfriend was with her experiencing his own trials. Now, they’re married and both know Christ.
Scafidi posted on Instagram her appreciation to God for taking them out of their dark situation.
She said, “Thank You for taking me — a desperate spiritualist lost in the endless rabbit hole of the demonic New Age deception — and making me a Daughter,” she wrote in a prayer on her Instagram. “Thank You for taking him — an apathetic agnostic with an addictive personality and a closet full of skeletons — and making him a Son.”
In another post, she said, “I spent the first quarter of my life living for myself; it’s not that I didn’t believe in God, it’s that I foolishly created an idol of God in my mind that was based on who I wanted Him to be rather than who He is.”
Movieguide® reported on another former witch who became influenced after she watched a movie with witchcraft content:
Jenny Weaver, a former witch who is now a born-again Christian, warned parents that movies and television shows can influence children for evil.
“[The demonic hold that was over my life is] why I tell parents when I minister, it’s not a joke when we say be careful what your children are watching,” Weaver said.
