The point I realized I was like more witchy was kind of just, it's the funniest story I'm telling you.

I'm sitting down to talk with Adelaide Abrahemi, Adi. She has large glasses, wavy hair, and flashes me a big smile.

Addie is telling me about her earliest memory of witchcraft. It was inspired

by the animated movie Frozen.

I was like 10 and I had just got into theater after watching Frozen. And I think everyone

at the time was wanting to be Elsa. And I was also just like, well, that's kind of cool. In Disney's Frozen, Elsa has magical powers with which she can create and control wintery weather.

About a week after seeing the movie, Addie was in her yard and started magically experimenting with the wind.

There's like this form of a divination where it's like you can use the wind to try to like see different things for yourself.

Addie combined meditation with this wind magic, and it became a way for her to connect with spiritual beings as well.

While the movie Frozen was a magical catalyst, even as a 10-year-old, Addy was a spiritual seeker.

She grew up in a house where religious remixing was common.

Her mom, who's white, was raised Baptist in southern Oregon.

And her dad, who's from Afghanistan, is Muslim. But he preferred going to

Christian churches. By the time Addie saw the movie Frozen, she was already looking for her

own spiritual path. It didn't turn her into a witch, but it pointed her in that direction.

I think it took about two months to kind of just get it into my head that I was a bit more witchy.

So I realized more I was on the pagan side was actually just a huge relief for me.

And then when I finally, like, I just kind of felt an entire weight lifted all my shoulders.

It took about five years for Addie to figure out how her nature-centered magic could work as a spiritual home for her.

And part of that process was finding her community, which began when she was a sophomore in high school, and learned one of her friends was also pagan.

As a teenage witch, newly confident in her spiritual direction, Adi had to be resourceful

with her magical practices.

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