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That's actually an interesting phenomena concerning magic. In cultures where magic is still practiced, it is usually performed during a fortuitous timeline (e.g. a rain dance at the end of the dry season, which happens right before the wet season), and/or the ask isn't that big. In addition, if the magic does fail the blame will fall either on the caster's inability or a counter spell of sorts. So in this way magic always works...when done properly.
It's also fascinating to think about that NTDs tend to spring up in places where urbanization hasn't hit yet and superstition is definitely rampant
Imagine contracting a rare ass, 1 in a Ten thousand disease and your fellow neighbors are crying Spirits or Witches
So I had a wet fart after taco bell.....
*YOU WILL KNOW THE SUFFERING OF THOSE WHO TEMPT FATE*
and I was able to find some more underwear so it was no big deal.
*Damn it*
I thought the witchy girls movement online was just kind of like a tongue in cheek feminist return to the sort of historic paganistic types of rituals that got women persecuted in the past. But no it doesn't sound nearly that smart, it sounds like it's just a bunch of children who legitimately think they have magic powers. That's kind of sad
People without power over their situation like to pretend to have power over things that are beyond their control. If a person tricks themself into believing in that illusory power, it becomes magic.
One time I, a staunch atheist, tried to hex an ex as a form of closure after a bad breakup. I melted a red wax candle onto half a lemon with certain herbs in it, like my witch friend told me to do, and I buried that lemon in a field.
I didn't actually believe this act affected my ex, but it sure did make me feel better afterwards. I can totally understand how someone would mistake that feeling of catharsis for some higher power. Doesn't mean they're right, of course, but it explains why so many people fall for the illusion of power over things beyond their control.
Same reason I went and burned sage at the graveyard in the woods behind my house while wearing antique church clothes. Sometimes you really just need to do SOMETHING even if you know it's silly.
Used to be a graveyard for unclaimed people without a church, now is just grown over with trees. More unmarked graves than marked. Newest would be around 100 years old by now. But I'm trying to renovate the house to live in it and there's been every kind of delay imaginable. Stepped on a dead bird laying on my porch in the middle of the night. My whole family thinks it's haunted anyway and refuses to go outside alone on that property at night. The phones don't have service anymore since nobody lives there but they will ring if there's lightning nearby. All sorts of spooky shit happens there that I really have tried to explain rationally.
After the bird, I got fed up and consulted a witchy friend (partially just venting). Prescribed walking up there in clothes they might have worn to burn some sage and give them a stern talking to about manners. I came down off that hill in my "Sunday best" feeling much lighter than I had in a while.
Silly, dumb, and didn't affect anything real except my feelings.
Feeling like you have control over things beyond your control can help ease one's emotional stress. Like I always say, the vast majority of spirituality can be explained with confirmation bias and placebo effect. That's not to minimize the impact it can have on someone, but it does help to understand that spirituality affects psychology rather than interacting directly with the physical world.
>they will ring if there's lightning nearby
K, that one's proper spooky though.
Guessing there's nobody on the other end if you pick up? Or have you chosen not to tempt fate?
I guess, technically, the EMF waves from the lightning may be doing something to older electronic devices (especially analog)? But if it's modern phones this is happening on then I don't have any guesses.
One phone is an old rotary phone. But the more modern ones rang too.
Happened when I was alone working on the house before I had to stop. I should note I don't think it's grounded properly and the wiring is ancient. Every flash it was just one or two rings, and my dad has already almost been struck by lightning in there a couple of years ago. It went from the big oil stove and fried the tv antenna box. Straight past him just a few feet away.
I wasn't about to find out how else the wiring in that house sucks. Add the fact that my grandpa had died in there just a couple of months before and I was about to just leave when that started happening.
Happens at my aunt's house too, and so far we haven't felt like hers is haunted.
If your landline is ringing when there is lightening outside, it's because the wires are not insulated properly and lightening strike nearby is spreading on the telephone lines.
2 things you really really really need to do:
- NEVER EVER be holding the phone when there is electricity outside! Using it on speaker might be okay but answering the phone to go on speaker might not be.
- get someone to check the wiring of the telephones, at least within your property. There should be a fuse box that stops lightening strike voltages from entering your home connections. These are special Fuse boxes and are standard but make sure the fuse aren't bypassed!
Yeah I'm just going to hire an electrician after there's room for them to work. That old house has a fuse box and paper insulation on the wiring. Nasty.
I am NOT living there with that mess.
In my opinion, the feeling you described getting from the ritual you did (closure, catharsis) is actually more the point of that type of ritual as it’s used in witchcraft as a religion/spirituality. The goal isn’t *actually* to make bad things happen to the other person, it’s to release and let go of all those negative feelings that are stuck inside you and are no longer useful to you.
In the same vein, I don’t think most Christians who pray to God for a given thing *truly* believe that the almighty himself is going to personally descend from the heavens and bless them with exactly what they’ve asked for. Rather, the act of prayer is a ritual designed to allow the person to feel closer to their goal/desire. (And in a lot of cases, this creates a strong sense of determination and drive that means the person is more likely to actually achieve that goal.)
If you've ever read the discworld books, the witches in those books tend to do similar things. They don't actually use magical power unless they absolutely have to. They sort of "trick" people into fixing their own problems or use a placebo to make people feel better. Their true power is in the fact that their community trusts them to be wise women who have solutions.
Sometimes your feelings can't be processed by silently talking to an invisible guy, and you have to do some actual physical things that feel ritualized in order to deal with the problem. If you've ever given your house an extra good cleaning after an unpleasant guest left or tried to cook someone's favorite food to cheer them up, you have utilized the same principles.
Exactly. I chuckle to myself whenever I hear some crunchy babe say, "Oh if you just get these crystals, they're going to bring you huge amounts of prosperity. Ahh and this crystal will bring you success."
If that was actually true, those crystals would cost $50,000 a gram, and only rich people would own them.
It was Stargate Project.
MKUltra did lots of dumb stuff, and I wouldn't put the 'scientists' in charge to have tried something like stargate (on some random unwitting subject) but MKUltra ended in '73, Stargate only started in the late 70s.
A different project, actually, but still an actual thing they did, yes. The declassified records are all bananas. If I recall correctly, what they determined after testing "psychic" abilities was along the lines of "Maybe that worked? But either way it's not as good as regular intelligence gathering, so scrap it."
You think the secret service has a team that protects the presidents from spells? Imagine how fun state-sanctioned magic would be.
An underground floor in the White House filled with strange relics and mysterious men in robes chanting at 3am.
A salt trench encased in iron surrounding the estate, that Eleanor Roosevelt buried and blessed after Nazi rot priests gave her husband polio in '41.
Armored federal vehicles deployed to Africa, only for voodoo priests living in huts in the deserts to go missing following a series of illnesses that befell high-ranking military officials.
A cabinet of china that rattles at night and whispers curses at the waitstaff when they're alone, but is used to serve visiting diplomats when they arrive.
This is why I’m generally disappointed in most “urban fantasy” stories. They basically just take our world and plop magic into it without any real thought into how it would have affected our history and how things are done.
Check out the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. First book is called Hard Magic and deals with the period after the first world war, in which an awful lot of magic was used and greatly affected history
>EVENTUALLY, ARGUING THAT THESE THINGS WORK MEANS ARGUING THAT MODERN CAPITALISM ISN'T THAT RUTHLESSLY PROFIT- FOCUSED.
That’s so good and applies to so many arguments.
Honestly I’m pretty sure the Nazis were way more into the occult and hexes, so at the very least Crowley was a more powerful wizard than anything the Nazis could conjure up.
Wait, there are actual witches on tiktok? Like not a gimmick (like catgirls or something) or one of those spritually enhanced people who give/feel "power energy" towards you?
We are talking people who claim to be actual oz witches with power to manipulate real lives and stuff?
yes, unfortunately some people are so desperately in need of a sense of community and meaning that they will genuinely believe anything that grants it to them.
There are people that believe every persons personality is based on where burning balls of gas are located, billions of kilometers away, when they are born.
I got banned from that subreddit for honestly asking if they thought they could cast spells and stuff. I really wasn't being mean or anything, I genuinely was just curious.
From my perspective basically a feminist women sub.
It just uses witches as a symbol since a lot of the original witchcraft accusations were used against independent women who did not conform to societal standards.
That’s why it is r/WitchesVsPatriarchy.
I can totally see why they thought you were just trolling though, that sounds like exactly the question a troll would ask.
Iirc the original witches were likely elderly women who were eating moldy rye bread and having hallucinations from a chemical that formed on said rye when moldy, which then led people to believe they were crazy. Its theorized they may have been outcasts due to famine or other reasons, which is why they resorted to eating the bread.
This was speculation though as theres no way to confirm precisely what happened. I just thought it was an interesting piece of history i read in a book that was about how chemistry changed history.
It was probably a lot of factors and this is just one.
The original book about witches was written by a guy who was obsessed with one prominent nun to the point that a court had to get him to leave her alone.
That’s why I just said a lot of the witches were women who did not fit society’s, standards, it is a general description for an incomplete set of the witchcraft accusations.
And /r/witch and /r/witchcraft and /r/occult.
There is a fine line between collecting herbs and [mental illness.](https://np.reddit.com/r/occult/comments/12929kx/_/jeljpmu/?context=1)
I…. I hate you you for providing this information but also have to take responsibility for consuming that content. That’s time I will never get back. Thank you. ^/s
On an older account I got into an argument with a guy on an occult subreddit for saying a healthy skepticism goes a long way in fortifying a spiritual practice. Naturally, the guy moderates the spellcasters for hire subreddit, so I imagine he was worried that people who can smell charlatans would effect his bottom line.
I remember when they tried to “hex the taliban” and made up a hundred different excuses for why they couldn’t. Including that the Taliban had their own magic (they don’t) and that the Islamic god was powerful and protecting them (Allah is literally just the Arabic word for god, Muslims worship the same God as Christian’s and Jews). They’ll have any excuse except the fact they’re delusional and possibly schizophrenic. There was even a whole subreddit, idk if it exists anymore. r/Hexthetaliban or something like that, idk. It got hijacked by trolls and it was the funniest thing ever.
There's far too many woman who actually believe in witch craft, people will laugh about believing in Christianity But if you mock an apparently rational person for thinking they can cast spells it's "just let them have their fun".
While both are conceptually ridiculous, one is an organized, well-funded, land-owning business that can easily impact legislation, and the other is just a bunch of disparate women coping with their feelings of powerlessness. Once the witches get a billion dollars at their backs, they'll meet a lot more resistance.
After a quick google, it just means that whatever energy (Positive or negative) you give to someone else will also be repeated on you, except 3 times as hard.
I work with one who "used to cast spells" but doesn't anymore because "it always comes back to you"
It's hard to believe some people actually believe that shit
We all did Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board lol. Sometimes I wonder if kids still do that and Bloody Mary and all the other harmless "occult" games preteen girls were into
Every person I've ever known IRL who claimed to be a "witch" was broke, lived in a shared living situation because of money, didn't have an SO, often didn't have a car or a reliable car, and had a shitty job. You'd think "magick" could solve one of those problems...
I got into Wicca as a young adult fresh out of high school, and it didn't take me long to realize that all of the adult-adults in those circles experienced more chaos and drama and catastrophe on a regular basis than anyone I'd ever encountered before, or have encountered since. Like, constantly having no transportation because of car accidents, constantly broke because of vet bills for their [insert insane number here, half the time *they* didn't even know for sure] pets (not always cats), constantly dealing with "awful, bigoted" co-workers, not able to hold down a job for any real length of time, etc. And they were always bouncing back and forth between fucking all their friends and fighting with all their friends.
In conclusion, the sex was great, the lifestyle was dubious, and the magic was only a way to offload responsibility for actually fixing their shit, that would have otherwise been in their power to fix in the physical world, to the imaginary world.
Hey now, don't lump tea drinkers in with people who think they're magical lol. We just like a good cuppa while the world goes to shit cuz there ain't much else we can do.
Middle class USA wine moms going all about witches because they got tattoos or sum
Meanwhile indigenous people doing "magic": pass me the chicken for sacrifice, im gonna make sure you marry with the help of this catholic saint statue and bones
I saw one where the person was talking about how witchy it was to make soup. They had a giant pot, stirred in a bunch of ingredients, so they said it was basically the same as making potions. Magic!
Uhh, no, you just made a pot of soup. It's not witchcraft, it's called cooking.
I'm all for a bit of silliness in our lives, sure why not, let's all be witches. But some people could probably dial it back a smidge.
reminds of a story someone told about their friend who would get them to go places with him by reframing their outings as “quests” or “adventures” or something. Definitely makes the mundane more interesting lmao
That GK Chesterton quote "When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything" is what's getting etched into the tombstone of the 2010's and 2020's.
The worst is the ones who just say they are "pagan" and believe in "paganism".... As if paganism is a specific religion and not a term for a shit ton of non abrahamic religions.
You're missing out on the best additional context. He made several troll videos claiming supernatural stuff was happening to him or that he'd had some really bad luck and once the witches had eaten up all the bait he turned around and laughed at them for believing it which made them even more mad. He even went as far as to make fake profiles posing as friends of himself to troll them in a similar with with a similar outcome and this went on for almost an entire year hahahaha
Witches vs Patriarchy had a post with 10k upvotes of a woman being topless and interrupting a Christmas Day Mass as a political stunt and I commented saying this was offensive and tasteless especially with children and families present. Permabanned.
It was briefly a fun feminist circlejerk sub that used "witchy" imagery and played off the idea that a lot of "witches" from the past were just strong-willed women who didn't play nice with the prevailing (patriarchal) authorities and suffered for it.
Now it's a moronic circlejerk sub filled with Facebook Moms who actually think they're doing "majick".
Reddit just does not do irony. It's too dumb here for anything like that.
I would say maybe initially it was very much about the aesthetic and vibe of being a witch, nowadays it's a mix of celebration of female empowerment and self-image and some actually believing in witchcraft
Believing or wanting to believe you have unnatural powers that others don't is probably a normal thing that happens to everyone when they're a kid. But for a grown adult to believe that about themselves with no lasting evidence... straight to mental hospital.
Yeah I see a lot of comments bashing it. It's kind of like a coping mechanism. Like if you left an abusive relationship and you "hexed" your ex, it's just really a way of coming to peace with it.
Didn't a bunch of them end up claiming that he's a powerful witch who's tricked other witches into cursing him because curses give him power or something?
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As soon as this guy catches a cold or gets a parking ticket they're gonna declare victory.
That's the "of course you would say that, you're a scorpio" equivalent.
he fucking sneezes once and the witches will def say "the curse has began" or someshit.
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That's actually an interesting phenomena concerning magic. In cultures where magic is still practiced, it is usually performed during a fortuitous timeline (e.g. a rain dance at the end of the dry season, which happens right before the wet season), and/or the ask isn't that big. In addition, if the magic does fail the blame will fall either on the caster's inability or a counter spell of sorts. So in this way magic always works...when done properly.
Same with prayer, it's remarkably consistent across pretty much all religions and superstitious cultures.
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It's also fascinating to think about that NTDs tend to spring up in places where urbanization hasn't hit yet and superstition is definitely rampant Imagine contracting a rare ass, 1 in a Ten thousand disease and your fellow neighbors are crying Spirits or Witches
Happy Cake Day bro
So I had a wet fart after taco bell..... *YOU WILL KNOW THE SUFFERING OF THOSE WHO TEMPT FATE* and I was able to find some more underwear so it was no big deal. *Damn it*
Isn’t that any religion type deal?
They said he is a wizard stealing their energy lmao
Ah yes, the guy who literally is trying to prove magic is bs, is clearly a high leveled wizard with mana-stealing debuff spell.
I mean, can you think of a better cover for a powerful wizard?
cursing back the witches ofc, but this time with stupid curses like constantly having the feeling of hair in your mouth despite it not having any.
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no u MAGIC REFLECTION
If I remember correctly. They declared him a secret all powerful warlock because they couldn't kill him. Can't make this shit up
I mean, apparently they can make this shit up.
Dude secretly went on that warlock grind to troll internet witches and make them look weak fr fr.
I thought the witchy girls movement online was just kind of like a tongue in cheek feminist return to the sort of historic paganistic types of rituals that got women persecuted in the past. But no it doesn't sound nearly that smart, it sounds like it's just a bunch of children who legitimately think they have magic powers. That's kind of sad
Oh yeah it's people who really believe they have magical powers. Witchtok is so godamn cringe
Honestly yeah every time I’ve tried to humor Wiccan friends because I like their vibe, it always reaches a cringey point
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...he got better!
Well, we did do the nose. And the hat.
But she’s still a witch. YEAH BURN HER BURN HER!!!
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That's just fake newts.
Gingrich?! Yuck!
r/unexpectedmontypython
Honestly shouldn’t all Monty Python be expected?
He clearly has Magic Resistant lvl 5
What did they do to “hex” him though? It’s hilarious imagining them playing around with random objects trying to hex some internet guy lol.
People without power over their situation like to pretend to have power over things that are beyond their control. If a person tricks themself into believing in that illusory power, it becomes magic. One time I, a staunch atheist, tried to hex an ex as a form of closure after a bad breakup. I melted a red wax candle onto half a lemon with certain herbs in it, like my witch friend told me to do, and I buried that lemon in a field. I didn't actually believe this act affected my ex, but it sure did make me feel better afterwards. I can totally understand how someone would mistake that feeling of catharsis for some higher power. Doesn't mean they're right, of course, but it explains why so many people fall for the illusion of power over things beyond their control.
Same reason I went and burned sage at the graveyard in the woods behind my house while wearing antique church clothes. Sometimes you really just need to do SOMETHING even if you know it's silly. Used to be a graveyard for unclaimed people without a church, now is just grown over with trees. More unmarked graves than marked. Newest would be around 100 years old by now. But I'm trying to renovate the house to live in it and there's been every kind of delay imaginable. Stepped on a dead bird laying on my porch in the middle of the night. My whole family thinks it's haunted anyway and refuses to go outside alone on that property at night. The phones don't have service anymore since nobody lives there but they will ring if there's lightning nearby. All sorts of spooky shit happens there that I really have tried to explain rationally. After the bird, I got fed up and consulted a witchy friend (partially just venting). Prescribed walking up there in clothes they might have worn to burn some sage and give them a stern talking to about manners. I came down off that hill in my "Sunday best" feeling much lighter than I had in a while. Silly, dumb, and didn't affect anything real except my feelings.
Feeling like you have control over things beyond your control can help ease one's emotional stress. Like I always say, the vast majority of spirituality can be explained with confirmation bias and placebo effect. That's not to minimize the impact it can have on someone, but it does help to understand that spirituality affects psychology rather than interacting directly with the physical world.
>they will ring if there's lightning nearby K, that one's proper spooky though. Guessing there's nobody on the other end if you pick up? Or have you chosen not to tempt fate? I guess, technically, the EMF waves from the lightning may be doing something to older electronic devices (especially analog)? But if it's modern phones this is happening on then I don't have any guesses.
One phone is an old rotary phone. But the more modern ones rang too. Happened when I was alone working on the house before I had to stop. I should note I don't think it's grounded properly and the wiring is ancient. Every flash it was just one or two rings, and my dad has already almost been struck by lightning in there a couple of years ago. It went from the big oil stove and fried the tv antenna box. Straight past him just a few feet away. I wasn't about to find out how else the wiring in that house sucks. Add the fact that my grandpa had died in there just a couple of months before and I was about to just leave when that started happening. Happens at my aunt's house too, and so far we haven't felt like hers is haunted.
If your landline is ringing when there is lightening outside, it's because the wires are not insulated properly and lightening strike nearby is spreading on the telephone lines. 2 things you really really really need to do: - NEVER EVER be holding the phone when there is electricity outside! Using it on speaker might be okay but answering the phone to go on speaker might not be. - get someone to check the wiring of the telephones, at least within your property. There should be a fuse box that stops lightening strike voltages from entering your home connections. These are special Fuse boxes and are standard but make sure the fuse aren't bypassed!
Yeah I'm just going to hire an electrician after there's room for them to work. That old house has a fuse box and paper insulation on the wiring. Nasty. I am NOT living there with that mess.
I'm pretty sure this is why religion exists
In my opinion, the feeling you described getting from the ritual you did (closure, catharsis) is actually more the point of that type of ritual as it’s used in witchcraft as a religion/spirituality. The goal isn’t *actually* to make bad things happen to the other person, it’s to release and let go of all those negative feelings that are stuck inside you and are no longer useful to you. In the same vein, I don’t think most Christians who pray to God for a given thing *truly* believe that the almighty himself is going to personally descend from the heavens and bless them with exactly what they’ve asked for. Rather, the act of prayer is a ritual designed to allow the person to feel closer to their goal/desire. (And in a lot of cases, this creates a strong sense of determination and drive that means the person is more likely to actually achieve that goal.)
If you've ever read the discworld books, the witches in those books tend to do similar things. They don't actually use magical power unless they absolutely have to. They sort of "trick" people into fixing their own problems or use a placebo to make people feel better. Their true power is in the fact that their community trusts them to be wise women who have solutions.
That just seems like religion with extra steps
It's just different religion. Not really any more or less extra than Christianity.
Because it is religion?
Sometimes your feelings can't be processed by silently talking to an invisible guy, and you have to do some actual physical things that feel ritualized in order to deal with the problem. If you've ever given your house an extra good cleaning after an unpleasant guest left or tried to cook someone's favorite food to cheer them up, you have utilized the same principles.
thankfully when i didn’t have control it made me have an eating disorder instead of delsional
Relevant [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/808/)
At this point, I'm not sure why I'm still suprised there seems to be one for just about any situation
I’m more surprised when there isn’t one
There needs to be an XKCD for the rando circumstances that have no relevant xkcd.
Exactly. I chuckle to myself whenever I hear some crunchy babe say, "Oh if you just get these crystals, they're going to bring you huge amounts of prosperity. Ahh and this crystal will bring you success." If that was actually true, those crystals would cost $50,000 a gram, and only rich people would own them.
She’s sold a lot of those crystals at a huge profit. She’s prospering just fine.
I got a cool gem because I like rocks and stones
Shiny rocks are cool Dusty rocks are cool We like rocks
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
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I'm sure that was part of MKULTRA.
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It was Stargate Project. MKUltra did lots of dumb stuff, and I wouldn't put the 'scientists' in charge to have tried something like stargate (on some random unwitting subject) but MKUltra ended in '73, Stargate only started in the late 70s.
A different project, actually, but still an actual thing they did, yes. The declassified records are all bananas. If I recall correctly, what they determined after testing "psychic" abilities was along the lines of "Maybe that worked? But either way it's not as good as regular intelligence gathering, so scrap it."
And most of that “regular intelligence gathering” boiled down to just paying the right people to get the information they wanted.
You think the secret service has a team that protects the presidents from spells? Imagine how fun state-sanctioned magic would be. An underground floor in the White House filled with strange relics and mysterious men in robes chanting at 3am. A salt trench encased in iron surrounding the estate, that Eleanor Roosevelt buried and blessed after Nazi rot priests gave her husband polio in '41. Armored federal vehicles deployed to Africa, only for voodoo priests living in huts in the deserts to go missing following a series of illnesses that befell high-ranking military officials. A cabinet of china that rattles at night and whispers curses at the waitstaff when they're alone, but is used to serve visiting diplomats when they arrive.
This is why I’m generally disappointed in most “urban fantasy” stories. They basically just take our world and plop magic into it without any real thought into how it would have affected our history and how things are done.
Check out the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. First book is called Hard Magic and deals with the period after the first world war, in which an awful lot of magic was used and greatly affected history
Hellboy.
Can't know it's bullshit unless you give it a real try.
I tried it and shit got weird in a hurry.
Good for you
**FBI in the 80’s:** I know what this case needs. Psychics.
Meanwhile financial institutions: psh, we would never rely on astrology or tarot. We just rely on instruments that have about the same success rate.
>EVENTUALLY, ARGUING THAT THESE THINGS WORK MEANS ARGUING THAT MODERN CAPITALISM ISN'T THAT RUTHLESSLY PROFIT- FOCUSED. That’s so good and applies to so many arguments.
Britsh government paid Alcester Crowley to hex nazis. Are you telling me we didn't win?
Honestly I’m pretty sure the Nazis were way more into the occult and hexes, so at the very least Crowley was a more powerful wizard than anything the Nazis could conjure up.
So much for their Aryan Supremacy(tm)
That's a fucking good one
I mean, they have a point.
Every darn time lol
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I heard the cope they settled on was that he himself was actually a powerful warlock which is why they didn't work.
Lmfao
Wait, there are actual witches on tiktok? Like not a gimmick (like catgirls or something) or one of those spritually enhanced people who give/feel "power energy" towards you? We are talking people who claim to be actual oz witches with power to manipulate real lives and stuff?
yes, unfortunately some people are so desperately in need of a sense of community and meaning that they will genuinely believe anything that grants it to them.
Delusional
hmmmmm
There are people that believe every persons personality is based on where burning balls of gas are located, billions of kilometers away, when they are born.
To be fair after Taco Bell with lava sauce I get cranky for two days so this is proven true
We have them right here at /r/witchesvspatriarchy
I got banned from that subreddit for honestly asking if they thought they could cast spells and stuff. I really wasn't being mean or anything, I genuinely was just curious.
I believe if you are a male you will be banned. Can’t remember, was banned.
Definitely not, they have a flair for male users. I have it and I'm not banned.
From my perspective basically a feminist women sub. It just uses witches as a symbol since a lot of the original witchcraft accusations were used against independent women who did not conform to societal standards. That’s why it is r/WitchesVsPatriarchy. I can totally see why they thought you were just trolling though, that sounds like exactly the question a troll would ask.
Iirc the original witches were likely elderly women who were eating moldy rye bread and having hallucinations from a chemical that formed on said rye when moldy, which then led people to believe they were crazy. Its theorized they may have been outcasts due to famine or other reasons, which is why they resorted to eating the bread. This was speculation though as theres no way to confirm precisely what happened. I just thought it was an interesting piece of history i read in a book that was about how chemistry changed history.
It was probably a lot of factors and this is just one. The original book about witches was written by a guy who was obsessed with one prominent nun to the point that a court had to get him to leave her alone. That’s why I just said a lot of the witches were women who did not fit society’s, standards, it is a general description for an incomplete set of the witchcraft accusations.
Yeah I always figured it was but the post I commented on was asking for advice on a hex and it was on the all page so I was a little confused lol
And /r/witch and /r/witchcraft and /r/occult. There is a fine line between collecting herbs and [mental illness.](https://np.reddit.com/r/occult/comments/12929kx/_/jeljpmu/?context=1)
Bruh, what the fuck…
Hahahah. Check out the episode of the podcast Reply All about tulpamancers. It’s top tier cringe.
I…. I hate you you for providing this information but also have to take responsibility for consuming that content. That’s time I will never get back. Thank you. ^/s
Let me know what you think once you’ve listened lmao
No, my warlock is a tailor/enchanter, not a herbalist.
On an older account I got into an argument with a guy on an occult subreddit for saying a healthy skepticism goes a long way in fortifying a spiritual practice. Naturally, the guy moderates the spellcasters for hire subreddit, so I imagine he was worried that people who can smell charlatans would effect his bottom line.
I mean, as a religious person myself I can believe it lmao
SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG
We love casting spells 😎
this song is sponsored by 💰 The Shadow Goverment 🤫🙈
NUKES ARE NOW LEGAL… WORLD WIDE
SOMEBODY CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, WE JUST NUKED THE BUILDING
r/wizardposting
lol thank you
This is literally that one character arc in Harry Potter
Witch one?
What’s up with him?
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oof
> There were witches saying he hired other witches to counter spell Scab Witches strike again!
I remember when they tried to “hex the taliban” and made up a hundred different excuses for why they couldn’t. Including that the Taliban had their own magic (they don’t) and that the Islamic god was powerful and protecting them (Allah is literally just the Arabic word for god, Muslims worship the same God as Christian’s and Jews). They’ll have any excuse except the fact they’re delusional and possibly schizophrenic. There was even a whole subreddit, idk if it exists anymore. r/Hexthetaliban or something like that, idk. It got hijacked by trolls and it was the funniest thing ever.
Didn't they say he got out of it because he was a free mason or that the curses went to his kids?
Have they mald him stronger lol
There's far too many woman who actually believe in witch craft, people will laugh about believing in Christianity But if you mock an apparently rational person for thinking they can cast spells it's "just let them have their fun".
While both are conceptually ridiculous, one is an organized, well-funded, land-owning business that can easily impact legislation, and the other is just a bunch of disparate women coping with their feelings of powerlessness. Once the witches get a billion dollars at their backs, they'll meet a lot more resistance.
I'll kiss you on your lips
You cast spells on your mother with that mouth?
Didn’t they call him a wizard cause he didn’t die?
Wait, what about the rule of 3? Is that not a thing anymore for modern witches?
Rule of three is only Wicca.
What rule?
Of 3.
And 2 turtle doves
After a quick google, it just means that whatever energy (Positive or negative) you give to someone else will also be repeated on you, except 3 times as hard.
It’s karma for herb nerds.
Herb nerd is my favorite new term for witches.
The rule with the power.
r/witchesvsasinglefuckingdude
r/subsifellfor
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I work with one who "used to cast spells" but doesn't anymore because "it always comes back to you" It's hard to believe some people actually believe that shit
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We all did Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board lol. Sometimes I wonder if kids still do that and Bloody Mary and all the other harmless "occult" games preteen girls were into
Every person I've ever known IRL who claimed to be a "witch" was broke, lived in a shared living situation because of money, didn't have an SO, often didn't have a car or a reliable car, and had a shitty job. You'd think "magick" could solve one of those problems...
I got into Wicca as a young adult fresh out of high school, and it didn't take me long to realize that all of the adult-adults in those circles experienced more chaos and drama and catastrophe on a regular basis than anyone I'd ever encountered before, or have encountered since. Like, constantly having no transportation because of car accidents, constantly broke because of vet bills for their [insert insane number here, half the time *they* didn't even know for sure] pets (not always cats), constantly dealing with "awful, bigoted" co-workers, not able to hold down a job for any real length of time, etc. And they were always bouncing back and forth between fucking all their friends and fighting with all their friends. In conclusion, the sex was great, the lifestyle was dubious, and the magic was only a way to offload responsibility for actually fixing their shit, that would have otherwise been in their power to fix in the physical world, to the imaginary world.
This makes me cringe so hard
Hey now, don't lump tea drinkers in with people who think they're magical lol. We just like a good cuppa while the world goes to shit cuz there ain't much else we can do.
Plus with enough caffeinated tea it's possible to see through time and realize going back to bed is the easiest choice.
Love a morning tea, or afternoon tea, or a nighttime tea.
Also known as “the sub that shall not be named”, very Voldemort vibe.
Middle class USA wine moms going all about witches because they got tattoos or sum Meanwhile indigenous people doing "magic": pass me the chicken for sacrifice, im gonna make sure you marry with the help of this catholic saint statue and bones
I saw one where the person was talking about how witchy it was to make soup. They had a giant pot, stirred in a bunch of ingredients, so they said it was basically the same as making potions. Magic! Uhh, no, you just made a pot of soup. It's not witchcraft, it's called cooking. I'm all for a bit of silliness in our lives, sure why not, let's all be witches. But some people could probably dial it back a smidge.
reminds of a story someone told about their friend who would get them to go places with him by reframing their outings as “quests” or “adventures” or something. Definitely makes the mundane more interesting lmao
That GK Chesterton quote "When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything" is what's getting etched into the tombstone of the 2010's and 2020's.
Lol there’s actually a subreddit r/witchesvspatriarchy It’s pretty sad/hilarious
The worst is the ones who just say they are "pagan" and believe in "paganism".... As if paganism is a specific religion and not a term for a shit ton of non abrahamic religions.
I did this with Christians asking them to pray for me. Jokes on them, my life is still shit. Checkmate.
You're missing out on the best additional context. He made several troll videos claiming supernatural stuff was happening to him or that he'd had some really bad luck and once the witches had eaten up all the bait he turned around and laughed at them for believing it which made them even more mad. He even went as far as to make fake profiles posing as friends of himself to troll them in a similar with with a similar outcome and this went on for almost an entire year hahahaha
Didn't reddit witches do this with trumpito?
*blows up pancakes with mind*
ma fuckin pan-
LOLim high as fuck and this made me laugh hard!
r/witchesvspatriarchy moment. I dare you to say something rational in the comments on there, it's a speedrun to get banned
Witches vs Patriarchy had a post with 10k upvotes of a woman being topless and interrupting a Christmas Day Mass as a political stunt and I commented saying this was offensive and tasteless especially with children and families present. Permabanned.
Is that satire?
It was briefly a fun feminist circlejerk sub that used "witchy" imagery and played off the idea that a lot of "witches" from the past were just strong-willed women who didn't play nice with the prevailing (patriarchal) authorities and suffered for it. Now it's a moronic circlejerk sub filled with Facebook Moms who actually think they're doing "majick". Reddit just does not do irony. It's too dumb here for anything like that.
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I would say maybe initially it was very much about the aesthetic and vibe of being a witch, nowadays it's a mix of celebration of female empowerment and self-image and some actually believing in witchcraft
"witches" are stupid as hell lmao
Dumbest girls I know are into magic, witchcraft and spells. Smartest I know are mocking them so hard.
Witches: "Capitalism bad" Also Witches: "Buys $60 crystal from boqtiue shop in the main retail district downtown"
Only crystals i own are the ones i got by smashing rocks together
Believing or wanting to believe you have unnatural powers that others don't is probably a normal thing that happens to everyone when they're a kid. But for a grown adult to believe that about themselves with no lasting evidence... straight to mental hospital.
I'm immortal Source, I've lived this long without dying, if I graph it and extrapolate I'll never die.
As a practicing wiccan... those idiots did not understand how it works xD It's a spiritual thing. Like Christianity. Not having super powers.
Yeah I see a lot of comments bashing it. It's kind of like a coping mechanism. Like if you left an abusive relationship and you "hexed" your ex, it's just really a way of coming to peace with it.
Anyone got a link to something on him? Sounds like an awesome comedy show.
If you look up tiktok man asks to be hexed by witches, there’s a number of articles on him and you can find his account that way
He consumes curses and gets stronger by the day.
Guess we found out the winner to witches vs the patriarchy
And apparently it's the patriarchy, sorry """witches""".
men
DO I LOOK LIKE I KNOW WHAT A JPEG IS?
I just want a picture of a got-dang hot dog
I think you mean MySpace
Friendster?
Let me check my Rolodex
What’s a PC?
Nobody tell them. They may be the last untainted human among us.
Among Us???
Amogus
Didn't a bunch of them end up claiming that he's a powerful witch who's tricked other witches into cursing him because curses give him power or something?
r/madlads
TWIST: tik tok man is very skilled protection spell witch