Black magic - inspired by the ouija board thread

[limitededitionbarbie]

Has anyone ever had any experience of black magic?

Is it true that it only works of you believe it will or believe in black magic?

I stumbled across a site many years ago and my friend was concerned about whether I'd touched it - I hadn't.

After reading the thread about the ouija board it is playing on my mind.

Could you pink to the Ouija board thread please?

The only Black Magic I have any experience of are chocolates !

Maybe you could explain what you mean by "black magic" ?

There is a high price to be paid for all black magic. You or whoever does it must be prepared to pay that price.

For wanting to do a Ouija board for a laugh? http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/4640450-for-wanting-to-do-a-ouija-board-for-a-laugh

I don’t believe in that sort of thing, but I do believe in confirmation bias and the placebo effect and think that those things can be very powerful. It’s the approach I take to a lot of “woo” things.

The price of chocolate is shocking

It’s of course nonsense in that, say, making a voodoo doll with hair and fingernail clippings cannot inherently harm someone, but as a pp said, confirmation bias and the placebo (reverse placebo?) effect are powerful for some people. My grandfather (1930s/40s rural Ireland) believed someone had put a piseóg on him — his crops failed, his cattle got ill, his wife had a stillbirth and then died, leaving him with two small children. Eventually he had to sell the family farm — he suspected the neighbour who bought his land cheaply — and for the rest of his life was very poor, working casual labouring jobs and with several stints in a psychiatric hospital. He was still mourning the farm and the dead baby on his deathbed. My mother was the eldest child of his unhappy second marriage and cannot even mention any of this, and will not pass by the old farm, despite growing up nearby.

I think he’s a classic example of someone psychologically vulnerable who internalised the idea of a curse.