An occult author urged followers to cast a "Blue Wave" spell to help Democrats in the 2026 midterms, prompting a Christian prayer network to call on believers to pray against it, according to WND.
Michael M. Hughes, the author behind the "Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him," posted his "Blue Wave Ritual 3.0" on Medium on Oct. 9. He billed it as "a mass spell to save democracy" and invited participants to perform it on Oct. 26 and repeat it as often as they wished through Election Day.
"We need the Blue Wave," Hughes wrote. "We're standing on the edge of an abyss, America."
The ritual calls for a blue candle, a red candle, a printed U.S. map to be painted blue, a Justice tarot card and a nail, according to CBN News. Hughes told participants to speak "certain words" "with absolute contempt and fury," and urged them to share the ritual with friends and then vote.
"If you're feeling a bit hexy and want to get personal, feel free to add a litany of the names of despicable GOP members," Hughes wrote. CBN reported that he also named Democratic Senate candidates James Talarico of Texas and Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan as candidates to lift up, though there is no indication either had any role in it.
Hughes said participants did not need to be witches or even believe in magic. "You can be any religion or none, spiritual or an atheist," he wrote.
Intercessors for America, a Christian prayer organization, warned that "witches and warlocks" had been "very busy" after Halloween. "This is an evil conspiracy designed to dismantle our nation's foundations, from our government to the Constitution," the group said.
IFA urged Christians to pray over polling places and election workers and to declare the spells "null and void." It offered a prayer asking that "instead of a Blue Wave across America, we would have a wave of revival."
The group said its intercessors held a prayer call on the night of Oct. 26, the same night the ritual was set to begin, and told readers to "never doubt the power of prayer." Hughes has published similar anti-Trump rituals since 2017, pairing each one with a call to vote.
There is no public count of how many people performed the ritual. Nothing in the reporting shows an organized movement behind it.
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