Are charms really effective?

Question

Charmers said keeping a magnet (in your pocket or purse) can attract people to you. We know magnet has polarity that attracts positive and negatively charged particles. We humans have it. Could it be possibly true, right?

Answer 1

Ye' be attracting bullets long before people with that, my frend. Scientifically.

However, what you are practicing is a version of sympathetic magick (To me, I stil don't know what's up with the K at the end of the word). A magnet attracts items, iron and steel.

But when used as a charm, what charmers..charmers? Are trying to do is to duplicate it's pulling effect. Manipulate it so that it doesn't just work un metals then manifest it un the person.

A Magnet attracts other magnets, so if applied un someone. Likewise should happen. However, I don't think it's as simple as placing a trinket in the pocket. It probably has to go through some ritual or augmentation before it does attract people, since it's qualities have not been DMMed.

I can think of one way a magnet would be used to get a date, think fridge.

Answer 2

Yes. Charms are effective.
My wife won me over, with hers.

As for magnets, more has been written for and against the 'proof' of their powers than either you or me has the time to read.
A lot of faith is what you believe to be true.
That also works for religion.
Why do people wear crosses, crystals or amulets? Or indeed, carry rabbit's feet?
Belief's a funny thing. And can be intensely personal.
If you believe, Great. Go for it.
Carrying a magnet with you isn't going to cause you any harm, unless you drop it on your foot!
As for attracting people, well, maybe that's you. Maybe it's the magnet.
It's a mystery.
Just one more thing - if the whole magnet thing works out for you, don't come pestering me to start carrying a magnet, myself, because otherwise, my life wont suddenly get better in some mysterious way, okay?
I hate that. Something works for someone, and they suddenly can't feel fulfilled unless everybody else does exactly the same as them.

Cheers

Answer 3

I find charms effective, regardless of the style or purpose. The efficacy varies on skill and belief of maker and user, but occationally be independant of both, such as ancestral fetishes, tribal devices, and other objects of long time worship and practice.

Although I personally wouldn't use a magnet to attract ppl. I would use a charm specifically for the right sort of ppl. It would be more complex, but ultimately more effective. Magnets are indescriminate and attract all sorts of things. Are you sure you want to attract misfortune, homeless crackheads, and really bad ideas as well?

Answer 4

It is psychologically based, if you have any sort of charm that you believe will bring good luck to you, then it will, because you incorporate that in your every day life, the same if you have bad luck from a susperstition such as walking under a ladder.
The is the only way I see it as true.

Answer 5

it really depends. some even sell magnets as weight loss products. I dont believe in them either. IF only you condition your mind to that way of thinking, then you'll be able to associate the magnet to your expected result. It's really all in the mind.

Answer 6

Charms
The verbal version of a charm is a short verse or expression offered to confer protection or a wish. “Gesundheit!” (“Good health!”) is a simple form, often said in response to a sneeze, a moment when a demon is said to be able to enter one's body through the nose. Also, “Good luck!” or “Bless you!” are common informal charms. In ancient Greece, the words aski, kataski, and tetrax were charm words used to ward off enchantments. A more involved, formalized charm might be termed a prayer.
As a material thing, a charm can be any sort of an object; a substance such as herbs or medicines contained in a bottle, bag, or vial; beads; medallions; or an amulet (an amulet being more specifically designed to ward off spiritual evil). A crucifix or a bit of hair in a locket, an ankh, or any number of Buddhist symbols represent commonly used charms. In the Buddhist religion, the use of an amulet is pretty well universal.
An amulet (the word derives from the Arabic for “to carry”) is usually an inscribed charm of metal, stone, clay, wood, or bone, worn about the neck or otherwise carried on the person. A “hag-stone” (called a “mare-stone” in Scotland) is a bored stone worn to avert nightmares. The amulet can also be in the form of a gem, colored threads, a ring, a key, or a knot.
“Magic squares,” mathematical matrices that exhibit peculiar qualities when summed, are often inscribed on amulets. An example is:


4 9 2
3 5 7
8 1 6

In this basic square, any line of three figures——vertical, horizontal, or diagonal——adds to fifteen. Such an attribute is thought to confer magical security on the bearer.
The Hebrew mezuza is another example, inscribed with the name of Jehovah, though this charm is usually affixed to a doorpost as a bar to various demons. Amulets can be specially designed as protection from the evil eye, imprisonment, loss of property, or other misfortunes. The figure of a scorpion covered with appropriate symbols is said to protect against nightmares, incubi, and succubi. The Triskelion, a symbol consisting of three legs bent at the knee and joined at the thigh in a circle, is said to protect against the evil eye. The Isle of Man incorporates the Triskelion in its heraldry.
Some amulets are designed to protect only on certain days, their potency being determined by astrological means. Some are merely scraps of paper with magic symbols written on them; they are crumpled up and swallowed. Amulets obtained or made at a crossroads or a burial ground are supposed to be particularly effective.
There is a Yemenite charm against mice. You have the imam write the name of the prophet or some text from the Koran on a piece of parchment, have him say some powerful prayers over it, roll the piece of parchment up very tightly, wrap it and attach it to the collar of a cat. No guarantees.
Roman sorcerers prepared amulets specifically designed to prevent or cure diseases of the eye, headaches, toothache, tumors, fevers, epilepsy, or poisonous bites. In Hindu mythology there is a powerful stone which is made into an amulet called Salagrama. Its powers are almost unlimited.
In the Middle Ages, Carmelite monks were permitted to sell “conception-billets,” which are bits of consecrated paper to be placed at thresholds, attached to domestic articles, or simply swallowed to offer protection against theft or disease. Placed into a child's cradle, such a billet is believed to guard against the child being stolen by a witch; we don't know of any children so protected who have been reported as stolen by a witch.
Feathers from the wings of the angel Gabriel were sold as charms by medieval monks to fend off the plague. No record exists of a customer asking a monk how he obtained the feathers.
In his Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe says of a potent charm:

Within this circle is Jehovah's name
Forward and backward anagrammatized. . . .
Then fear not, Faustus, to be resolute
And try the utmost magic can perform.

And we all know what happened to Dr. Faust, don't we? Or do we?

Answer 7

i ain't sure about the magnet thing but it says in contemporary medicine that magnets help the blood to circulate easier...

but i do believe in charms... mostly coz my third's eye's open and i used to attract spirits and they follow me home.. i hate it... damages my aura so i just wear charms to block 'em away... a spell can attract somebody to you in an easier way....

Answer 8

Umm....no, it's total mysticism. There's no noteworthy scientific effect of carrying a magnet in your pocket

Answer 9

Charms are only as effective as the ability of the practitioner and the belief of the user.

Answer 10

only if you think it does then it makes your mental outlook better