Entry No. 35 — the Providence file — filed under: witchy
The Veiled Crow
Co-owners Loren May and Tracey Lawrence run this Edgewood storefront as equal parts shop and clubhouse: hand-carved dressed candles, small-batch loose incense, and oil blends they mix themselves as roller balls, sprays, scrubs, and soap, plus herbs from Providence Tea Company and tarot decks and books chosen title by title. Three readers — Loren, Casey, and Tracey — claim over 60 years of combined practice among them; a resident medium reads by appointment, and guest teachers run deity-introduction courses, candle magick, and poppet-making classes. The standing events are the tell: free Coffee Around the Cauldron salons and a Witch n' Stitch craft circle, which make the place function less like retail and more like a coven with a cash register. Google has it at 4.8 across 95 reviews, and the reviews read like thank-you notes.
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The story
The Veiled Crow started in 2009 as a mobile vendor working markets, took its first retail lease in 2011 in Pawtuxet Village, and by its own count is one of Rhode Island's oldest witchcraft shops. The Broad Street space is the fifth address in that run, opened June 2025, bigger than the last and laid out for events rather than just shelves. Co-owners Loren May and Tracey Lawrence met through overlapping spiritual circles; Lawrence found her way in through junior-high library books, May joined her first coven at nineteen.
They divide the work along their backgrounds. Loren May (she/they) is a tarot reader with over thirty years of practice who works in growth, shadow work and empowerment, holds a BFA from Rhode Island College and is the hand behind the shop's carved spell candles and incense recipes. Tracey Lawrence spent thirty-plus years in corporate design and merchandising, has a diploma in jewelry design, makes mixed-media shrine work, and practices Modern Traditional Witchcraft. Casey Cady is the third reader, covering tarot and mediumship.
The founding premise was that Rhode Island was buying imports, so most of what is on the shelf is made here: small-batch loose incense at $15 an ounce, hand-carved dressed candles, and oils blended in-house into roller balls, sprays, scrubs and soap. Herbs come from Providence Tea Company, jewelry from local artists, and the tarot decks and occult books are chosen title by title. The stated mission is a place where anyone can ask a question without having to become a practitioner — which is why the calendar matters more than the register. Monthly Coffee Around the Cauldron salons, a Witchy Book Club currently working through Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, and guest-taught courses keep the room full of people who bought nothing.
What it's like
Broad Street in Edgewood, five minutes south of downtown Providence, with easy street parking out front. Walk-in hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 to 6 — closed Sunday and Monday, which catches people out. The front of the shop is browsing: candle wall, incense, oils, decks, books, and staff who would rather answer a beginner's question than sell you a starter kit. Everything else runs on a clock. Readings, mediumship and spiritual consultations are booked online or at 401-919-5499, seated one at a time, and the 24-hour cancellation window is enforced with no refund or reschedule after it closes. Classes and salons are ticketed in advance; Coffee Around the Cauldron requires registration and admits nobody after 10 a.m.
The move: Call 401-919-5499 and book back-to-back tarot slots for a Saturday afternoon, browse the candle wall while the other one is in with the reader, then trade interpretations on the walk down Broad Street into Pawtuxet Village.
📍 Before you go Open Tue–Sat 11 a.m.–6 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday. Readings and mediumship are by appointment (401-919-5499); classes are ticketed in advance through the site. Street parking on Broad Street in Edgewood is easy. Technically Cranston, but it sits about five minutes south of downtown Providence.
- 📍 Cranston
- 💸 $$
- ⚡ Up for anything
- 🌗 Indoors
Where: 1862 Broad St, Cranston, RI 02905
Hours: Added 2026-08-25 — confirm current hours before you go.
⚠ Seasonal or scheduled — always check before you go.
Pair it with
- Botanica San Lazaro — Two and a bit miles up the same Broad Street and a completely different tradition: Yoruba-Catholic devotional supply against modern traditional witchcraft, which makes the contrast the whole point of the drive.
- Governor Sprague Mansion — Three miles west, still in Cranston: an appointment-only house museum carrying its own seance lore, for turning an afternoon of tarot into a full day of local occult history.
- Urban Sweat at Raffa Yoga — Four miles west in Cranston, with a salt grotto and hammam — the decompression half of the day, once you have been told things about yourself.
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Good to know
Is it in Providence?
Technically Cranston — 1862 Broad Street, 02905, in the Edgewood neighborhood — but it is about five minutes south of downtown Providence and street parking on Broad is straightforward. Pawtuxet Village, where the shop first took a lease in 2011, is a short walk further down the same road.
What does a reading cost, and can I walk in for one?
Tarot runs 15–30 minutes from $40 with Loren May, Tracey Lawrence or Casey Cady. In-person mediumship with Casey Cady is 30 minutes for $100, and a spiritual consultation — spell work, energy work, manifesting, explicitly not a tarot reading — is 30 minutes for $80. Book through the site or call 401-919-5499; walk-in slots are not the model.
What is the cancellation policy?
Twenty-four hours' notice to cancel or reschedule any booked service. After that window there are no refunds and no changes. Free events have their own version: for Coffee Around the Cauldron there is often a waitlist, so the shop asks you to say so if you can't make it.
Do I have to be a witch to go in?
No, and the owners are explicit about it — the shop exists so people can bring questions somewhere without signing up for a practice. Browsing the incense and candle wall on a Saturday afternoon is a perfectly normal use of the place.
What is on the calendar besides readings?
Monthly Coffee Around the Cauldron, a free salon that starts at 10 a.m. with registration required; a monthly Witchy Book Club, currently on Starhawk's The Spiral Dance; a Witch n' Stitch craft circle; and ticketed guest courses — an Intro to the Mórrígan class runs $45 — alongside candle magick and poppet-making sessions.
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last checked: 2026-08-25