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Witches of Wall Street

A spellbinding new walking tour concocted with NYC’s authority on all things uncanny, Boroughs of the Dead!

“Step off the trading floor and into the hidden history of power, magic, and rebellion on the Witches of Wall Street tour—a spellbinding walk through lower Manhattan where money, mysticism, and social transgression collide.

On this tour, a witch is not just someone who practices magic, clairvoyance, or spiritualism. A witch is also someone—most often a woman—who defied social norms, challenged power, or threatened the status quo.

As we walk Wall Street and its surrounding streets, we’ll meet witches of many kinds:

• Financial witches and “wizards” who bent markets through daring speculation and uncanny intuition, including figures like Victoria Woodhull, America’s first female stockbroker, and Hetty Green, whose brilliance made her both feared and reviled.

• Radical women and dangerous thinkers and literary witches

• Psychics, mesmerists, and spiritualists

• Spiritual and political resistance through faith

Along the way, we explore how superstition, intuition, and belief still shape markets today—and why Wall Street’s “financial wizardry” may not be as metaphorical as it seems.

Equal parts history, folklore, and cultural subversion, Witches of Wall Street reveals the magical thinking beneath capitalism and the people who were branded dangerous for seeing the world differently.

Perfect for lovers of hidden history, the occult, and anyone who suspects Wall Street has always been a little cursed.”

SIGN UP HERE: https://boroughsofthedead.com/tours/witches-of-wall-street/

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