Spells broken: Etsy bans sale of 'metaphysical services'

Vendors of the supernatural can sell tangible items as long as they do not claim objects can induce weight loss or love, the arts and crafts marketplace states

Selling the services of demons on Etsy, from Astaroth to Zagan, is unacceptable to the arts and crafts marketplace. The recently public company had previously done a brisk trade in weight loss spells, ex-lover-shaped voodoo dolls, and philtres of various descriptions, but no more.

"Any metaphysical service that promises or suggests it will effect a physical change (eg, weight loss) or other outcome (eg, love, revenge) is not allowed, even if it delivers a tangible item," read the company's quietly rewritten terms of service. The old terms simply made sure nobody claimed without proof to have cast a hex on someone's new boyfriend by requiring some kind of good to change hands.