Thread 18000064

Why did people for thousands of years believe that you could curse or control people just by stealing a personal belonging?

Symbolism. Correspondence. As Above, So Below. “The gods are associated with Myrrh”.

I think it's called Sympathetic magic. Like if you have a lock of someone's hair, then you can cast a spell on them using it.
Either way, it's superstitious mania. Like thinking that you can hate someone to death. A specific subset of the general imaginative urge to feel like wishing real hard will get you what you want.

She's a mid tier villain. A smarter witch would have been a bit more subtle about what she was doing.

>>18000095
She was on her deathbed. She’s desperate. A witch that’s simultaneously subtle and reckless was part of the fun. She acted like a sweet old lady perfectly, but uncanny to the point where a shaper mine (like Marge) might know that something is off.

>>18000064 (OP)
The wicked gods teach all these practiced to humans evo worship them. These wicked gods will be given in the hands of men who lived righteously and loved God and they will judge and punish them.

Learning to do any of these things is a one way ticket to hell. You will be in hell even before you die for evil spirits will haunt and torment you day and night.