The Salem Witch Walk

The Salem Witch Walk

The Salem Witch Walk
4.5
Monday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Tuesday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Sunday
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM
About
Welcome to the Salem Witch Walk! You will enter the Enchanted Garden where the magic begins! With a: -Musical Light Show -Dragons -Cauldrons -Fog and Much More You will participate in 3 spells: -A Full Ritual -A Bay Leaf Wishing Spell -And Herbal Magic that you get to take home with you! Before you leave you the Garden: You will Jump the Broom and Leave your worries behind! Your tour guide will walk you through the streets of Salem, where you will learn about what Real Witches Do and Don’t Do, while focusing on Modern Day Witchcraft as well as respecting the history and Victims of the 1692 Witch Trails with a Blessing!
Salem, Massachusetts

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4.5
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Lauren
Circleville, OH5 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2021 • Friends
The witch walk was one of the the highlights of my trip to Salem with friends. As a huge history buff, I wanted to take this opportunity to get to learn more about Salem’s history in person and not just from books or a museum. Getting to see different places that have had made an impact through the last few centuries was in itself an amazing experience. But what made it so much better was our guide, Charlotte. Charlotte was not only knowledgeable and quick with an answer to any question, but also extremely kind, funny, and charming. Her charisma made the Witch Walk that much better. Her personality and presence made us feel welcome, and her humor and great attention to detail made me personally feel that I wasn’t just another tourist/group member to her. Overall, I WILL be doing this tour again the next time I come to Salem and I cannot wait!
Written October 31, 2021
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Ellen
New Jersey1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2020
Unfortunately our tour guide fell ill, the staff was quick to call and work with us on rescheduling. Due to our limited time in Mass what we had originally selected was the only time available to us. Despite the site saying no refunds we were given ours, something I know the other tours are not doing. I really appreciate the effort they made to keep everyone safe (all tours with that guide cancelled, they won't be back until they test negative), and the options they provided (if we were around longer could have easily rebooked to another time slot or another higher priced event without additional charge). I unfortunately can't write about how the tour itself was, but hope I can do that next year!
Written October 16, 2020
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ashely k
Fort Washington, PA37 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2020 • Family
Our tour guide was PJ and he was very friendly and lively. He kept everybody entertained and it was a great tour all around. He didn't skip out on any information, and wasn't afraid to voice his opinion. Any questions we had he would answer in full and give us more information that we expected. I would definitely do this tour again. It was a great time.
Written August 23, 2020
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John and Emily
1 contribution
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2020 • Friends
Terrible. The witch walk is not even a walk, its just a lady speaking to you In one spot about some history and witches, and the potion making is so lame. Not worth the money. Save it for a good restaurant instead. Also, the employees are sort of rude.
Written October 24, 2020
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Barbara G
Southwest Gulf Coast, FL6 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2021 • Solo
The Witch Walk with Charlotte was informative about the craft, its history, and local lore. I took other tours, but this is the one to take to learn about the craft. And the perfect end to a magical evening was a spell casting, perfect timing with a new moon.
Written October 12, 2021
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Lola
Washington DC, DC4 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2023 • Friends
I have been on many witch walks but, Crow Haven Corner is by far the best. The tour guide PJ made it fun but also made it very interesting and educational. You start out first in the sacred garden which is one of the most beautiful places I think you can ever stand in and I loved the smoking dragons. If you have questions I encourage you to ask because PJ had no problem answering mine and encourages to do so. I think this is perfect for all ages I think it's perfect for day and night and it's perfect whatever the weather is and I think everyone should experience it this is the best walk I've ever been on in Salem. So enjoy your walk best wishes Lola.
Written October 7, 2023
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Hi There, Thank you so much for taking my tour and for your glowing review! Many Blessings Lorelei
Written November 22, 2023
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Alyse E
State College, PA1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2021 • Couples
Amazing experience. MC was an amazing tour guide. Really brought everything to life. The energy was great. Highly recommend for anyone interested in witchcraft. Great mix of some history but mostly witchcraft which is everything we were looking for.
Written October 23, 2021
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Frankie I
4 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2017 • Couples
All I can say is we left this tour feeling very uncomfortable. I can't quite put it into words, but you might get an idea of it if you read the other reviews. The tour guide was fun at times, but otherwise felt uninterested and disrespectful towards the tour participants. I'll let all form their own opinions, but, like I said, we were deeply frustrated with this tour guide. Before any claims of religious closemindedness, we visited Salem because of a genuine interest in Wicca and the practices of modern witchcraft. If you are someone who knows absolutly nothing, zero, about this, then you may enjoy the tour or maybe even learn something, otherwise, you are better off with the historical stuff.
Written August 9, 2017
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SylvieH10
Reston, VA12 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2015
This was terrible. Our fault for not being more careful when booking it (we booked it just hours before when leaving to go visit Salem). Even though it was a witch tour, we expected a certain level of historical background. Got none. Started with this phoney seance type ritual behind their shop that took up the first 15 minutes of the tour. The guide, Sammie, was even very disrespectful of the tragedy that happened in Salem by calling those persecuted "fake witches." When asked about the poor man who was pressed to death, she exclaimed "pancake! " Half the tour was devoted to taking you into the shops owned by the same company to try to get you to give them more money by buying their junk.
Written July 13, 2015
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We often use these reviews to identify where our tour and guides improve but I always agonize whether to respond to this particular type of review because it mixes halft-ruths, complete fabrications, and outright religious bigotry. But I'm responding because I want others to know what kind of tour we are and what they should expect. This review is unfair. While we certainly touch on the history of what happened in 1692, as evidenced by your own mention of our reference to Giles Corey, who you refer to as "the poor man who was pressed to death," but we are not a history tour and have never presented ourselves as such. We are a tour about modern Witches and we explain the ways of the ancient religion of Witchcraft through the lens of both modern practices and, yes, our history, but the history of 1692 is referenced only insofar as it helps to show the contrast between what was believed about Witches in 1692 (that we were devil-worshippers harming the community) versus who we really are and always have been. To admit that you "booked it just hours before when leaving to go visit Salem" and didn't know what kind of tour it was and then attack it for not being the type of tour you were hoping for is like visiting an Italian restaurant and then publicly reviewing them badly for not having Won Ton soup. Moreover, yes, you can argue that you might have confused us because the Witch Trials and real Witches both have the word "Witch," but so do Kitchen Witches and the Wizard of Oz and we aren't about those topics either. In other words, this review is unfair because there is no way we could learn from or improve on our business based on this review anymore than the aforementioned Italian restaurant could start carrying Won Ton soup in order to please those people who bash them for not having Chinese food. We taught you exactly what we said we would teach you—the wondrous ways of the ancient path of the Witch. As for the shops we visit, the first shop is the start of the tour and we're actually outside conducting a religious ceremony of Witches. The other two shops we visit, we do not visit in order to shop. In fact, we don't allow shopping during the tour. We visit them because each of them contains Witchcraft altars, neither of which contain anything for sale, but rather exist only to show the tour how Witches perform their personal ceremonies and magic within their own spaces and how those spaces work. One is an altar of the dead, where thousands of people each year come and leave messages, at no charge at all, for their beloved dead, each of whom you just disrespected far more than any of the victims of 1692. The other altar is for healing, and people come frequently to that altar and leave healing requests for their loves ones, who you also disrespected. I pondered whether I should be so staunch in my position in the face of others reading these reviews, but my commitment to the spirit and to those who come to us to find it, is too great not too. What you so bigotedly referred to as a "phoney [sic] seance type ritual" is actually drawn from the practices and rituals of Witchcraft. They are, to be sure, distilled down to the core elements of the Craft—quite literally, since we call on the ancient elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. We also seek to empower those standing in this sacred circle that they may discover their own power from within, the power to transform their lives with real magic, a gift each of us possesses in our innermost souls—a thing that you have cast aside as "phoney" in what is perhaps the most blantant display of religious hatred I have seen yet on this website. Finally, and I hesitate to say this because I don't want to seem petty, but Sammie is a third generation Salem Witch and is also deeply respectful of the victims of 1692. She would never call them "fake Witches," but rather explains how most or all of them were simply good Christian people following their Puritan ways to the best of their abilities, when their lives were cut short as the result of an accusation of devil worshop—something that has nothing to do at all with Witchcraft. Moreover, she did not and would never use the term "pancake" to refer to Giles Corey, who was, perhaps, the most courageous of the trial victims, for he sacrificed himself that his may children may gain the inheritance they would have lost had he been found guilty. Yes, there's a bit of history for you, as I have studied the trials myself for over 25 years. Our collective knowledge of the trials of 1692 could probably fill volumes, but that is neither here nor there. We are not a 1692 history tour. We reference it only insofar as it helps us to contextualize the true ways of Witchcraft. We are quite clear on this and always have been. How dare you attack our religion, denigrate our way of life and our careers, and defame our tour guides with lies simply because, by your own admission, was not what you were looking for to begin with? Blessings, Christian Day The Salem Witch Walk
Written July 15, 2015
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Leah K
Roseville, CA7 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2015 • Friends
Beyond terrible. This tour is basically a promotional walk for the 3 stores associated with the Witch Walk. We started off with a hokey but 'OK' ritual in the alley beside the store. It was pleasant enough and I was trying to keep an open mind but it was a little hard to take our guide seriously: she was more irritating than informative. I think the only thing we learned was that the statue by the Salem Witch Museum is not a statue of a witch. Other than that, this was a total waste. I agree with the review that says it's robbery without smoke and mirrors. (and I think we might have been in the same group on the tour) I hate to just watch $16.00 disappear into thin air, but I was more annoyed that I wasted an hour and a half of my limited time in Salem.
Written October 20, 2015
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