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For that matter, telling fortunes with an ordinary poker deck is also a thing.
Anything is "magic" if you can convince someone it is.
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Money spells seem like they'd really throw the economy off balance if they were real, but maybe the amount regular people make doesn't even register because in clandestine underground chambers under banks and investment firms they've got entire witch covens mixing up Olympic pool sized vats of money oil they burn on pyres.

The witches all go about their day reflecting on how when they were in witch college they thought it would be all cool spells and potions and dancing under the light of a full moon, but here they are approaching middle age stuck in business casual attire mixing up money oil every day for a bunch of greedy suits just to pay the bills.
 
Money spells seem like they'd really throw the economy off balance if they were real, but maybe the amount regular people make doesn't even register because in clandestine underground chambers under banks and investment firms they've got entire witch covens mixing up Olympic pool sized vats of money oil they burn on pyres.

The witches all go about their day reflecting on how when they were in witch college they thought it would be all cool spells and potions and dancing under the light of a full moon, but here they are approaching middle age stuck in business casual attire mixing up money oil every day for a bunch of greedy suits just to pay the bills.

If any spells worked at all, it'd throw the whole of reality off-balance, since using cheating codes for real life would result in bizarre eldritch stuff.

This happens a lot in fiction with power levels arms races.

What happens if I can kill anybody I want at will á la Death Note, but another person can just shit gold and another person just has elemental powers? Would be like The Boys but even more retarded.
 

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Interesting bit to me: Although she's white and her delivery has a New Age touchy feely vibe, she mentions early in the video that the recipe comes from "Hoodoo".

Isn't that cultural appropriation? :)
Probably, but not necessarily. Although the word itself is definitely West African in origin, once it hit America, "hoodoo" got taken up by a lot of different communities. The Pennsylvania "Dutch" had a very long lasting tradition of folk magic that was and is sporadically self-described as "hoodoo". But I doubt she's casting spells out of Der lange verborgene Freund. It's not that obscure if you're interested in American folklore, but if you're not there's almost no chance you've heard of it. Also, it's constantly talking about how Jesus is Lord + God + Savior. Not very 2023.
 
Interesting bit to me: Although she's white and her delivery has a New Age touchy feely vibe, she mentions early in the video that the recipe comes from "Hoodoo".
Technically, yes, but like @InspectorJappOfficial pointed out, she might be so retarded she circled back to correct-by-accident.
So, the Loa aren't gods, but they kinda-are and they aren't like saints either. They're powerful spiritual-people. So long as you are respectful to them, and go to them with an honest heart and true intentions, they don't seem to care about modern identity politics. Baron Samedi just wants his tobacco and rum, others just want food and money, stuff like that.
Honestly some of them seem like they'd hang out with cows, and others would laugh at cows, it's a fascinating and sometimes really funny belief system.
 
clandestine underground chambers under banks and investment firms they've got entire witch covens mixing up Olympic pool sized vats of money oil they burn on pyres.
it wouldn't surprise me. I am not saying it works, but rich people are into a lot of New age batshitery and esoteric crap.
 
Feminist literature recontextualized witch burnings as a part of nasty patriarchal societies hurting strong independent wxmxn, and Wicca was subverted by a woman to be a gynocentric new age religion. When young women in our generation went to college they were shown this by gender studies departments (or got it online or from friends) and internalized it as true.

Combined with anti-Christian attitudes in society leaving people seeking spiritual fulfillment, it's not too big a shock that a lot of rootless, unmarried 20-somethings fall into a cultic practice that basically tells them they're the most important and powerful beings in the universe.
Do you have any reccomended reading/watching/listening on the witch burning stuff without the femenist tweaks? I've nevet looked into it much but was always taught that it was exactly that, men toasting up smart ladies or pants wearers or the unwed and successful and whatnot. So now I'm curious to know what the actual deal was!
 
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