Julie Lopez says five generations of witchcraft ended in her — and she means it literally.

Raised from infancy in a household steeped in rituals, dark spirituality, and manipulation, Lopez’s life took a harrowing turn that led her to walk away from the occult and into a life grounded in biblical faith, as CBN reports.

Her father’s tragic suicide became the breaking point for a divided family, sparking a spiritual shift that led Julie and her loved ones to abandon their practices in witchcraft and find hope and restoration through Christianity.

Entrenched In Darkness From Childhood

According to Lopez, her family practiced witchcraft for at least five generations, and possibly further back. “I think it actually goes [further back], but … it ends in me,” she said, as quoted by CBN’s Faithwire. “I cut that generational curse.”

Her initiation began before she could comprehend what she was involved in, as she was brought into occult rituals as a toddler. By age 12, formal training in witchcraft began — and it only darkened from there.

At age 15, Lopez says she was introduced to black witchcraft, a side of the occult more focused on manipulation and spiritual sacrifice. It marks the point when even darker spiritual patterns began to emerge in her life.

Power, Manipulation, And Spirit Guides

Lopez explained that the core of her family’s practices involved attempting to control others through rituals and summoned forces. It wasn’t just smoke and superstition—it was deeply spiritual. “Witchcraft is, basically, when you are controlling and manipulating people … through rituals,” she said.

What she once believed were benevolent “angels,” she later recognized as something far more sinister: demonic spirits masking themselves to deceive. “They don’t come to you as demons,” she warned, pointing out that these spirits prey on people’s ignorance by appearing as light or even friendly faces.

Lopez described how deeply entangled she became. The deeper she went, the darker the demands. What began as learning rituals became a call to self-harm and blood sacrifice, with spirits urging her to ultimately offer her life.

Collapse Of A Family: Paving A New Path

“I went really deep, really dark,” Lopez said, recalling the pressure to become the sacrifice herself. “At some point, I have to be the sacrifice. I have to die,” she admitted, revealing the psychological and spiritual torment she faced.

Tension snapped with her father’s suicide, which threw the entire family into disarray. “After my dad committed suicide, because of all the witchcraft and everything that we were doing, my family got destroyed,” she explained. “Each one of us took a different route.”

Her mother disavowed witchcraft and turned to the Bible for guidance. Others in the family turned to addiction. And Lopez, still ensnared in confusion and pain, began a spiritual journey of her own.

First Encounter With Freedom

While skeptics roll their eyes at “religious experiences,” they’d do well to explain what Lopez felt the first time she stepped into a small church. Something in the atmosphere reached her where years of ritual never could.

“I was excited and I didn’t even know why,” she said. “It was like I knew that I was going to encounter something that would change my life.” That encounter sparked the beginning of her deliverance.

Lopez said she experienced spiritual freedom that she hadn’t known in her old life — no spirits demanding blood, no tricks masquerading as light, just peace. And it wasn’t temporary. She says the transformation stuck.

A Voice Tells Her To Speak Out

Despite converting to Christianity more than a decade ago, Lopez kept silent about her past, held back by shame and the lurking shadows of what she left behind.

It wasn’t until 2024 that Lopez said she felt God instruct her to start telling her story publicly. Hesitantly, she did — and the ripple effect was immediate.

“When I shared it for the first time, I saw the impact that it had on other people,” she recalled. It confirmed for her that this wasn’t just healing for her—it was meant to help set others free.

Deliverance, Restoration, And Hope

Since stepping into the light, Lopez hasn’t looked back. She described going through a deliberate process of deliverance, breaking spiritual ties to her past.

And something remarkable happened: her family followed. Where there was once chaos and generational darkness, she now says there is healing.

“We are restored,” Lopez said. “We are set free.” There’s no magic trick in that. Just faith, truth, and the freedom that follows when the lies finally fall away.