Angelique Renard at Hex

Angelique Renard is a Salem witch, High Priestess of the Salem Coven and a psychic medium who offers readings at Hex, a witchcraft shop in Salem. She has guided seekers with insight and prophecy since childhood, and her specialties are tarot, palmistry and spirit mediumship. Hex’s completely renovated flagship shop sits on the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, and Destination Salem lists her among the city’s tarot readers and psychics.

Hex, run by proprietors and warlocks Christian Day and Brian Cain, bills itself as the largest witchcraft shop in Salem, with a sister shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Its shelves hold books on witchcraft and divination, spell candles, ritual incense, tarot and oracle decks, crystal balls, poppets, Voodoo dolls, talismans and statuary. The shop also hosts a Witches’ Altar of the Dead, where thousands of visitors each year leave notes for departed loved ones.

What to Know

• Each November, on the night of the goddess Hekate, notes left on the altar are burned in honor of the dead.
• The Salem shop sits on the red line of Salem’s Heritage Trail.
• Many of the shop’s products are also sold online.