Witchcrafat, black magic, curse, do they really exist?

Question

Some people say that "some one cursed you and hence you are suffering in so and so way". Some people say that you are suffering due to the application of "witchcraft". Are all these reliable facts? Do they really exist?

Answer 1

Nah

Answer 2

Witchcrafat.... *hahahaha* sorry that just sounds really really funny.

Yes witchcraft and magic (which is spelled correctly, all you fluffies out there) are real enough. Black magic technically doesn't exist, though, because magic has no color, and anyone who calls their magic black or white is just a misinformed little fluffy bunny.

However, it's more likely that someone is having misfortunes because of karma, not curses. Serious practitioners generally don't perform curses (unless they're really really pissed lol), and anyone who would have the intention of hurting someone else probably doesn't have the experience to carry out the curse to begin with.

Answer 3

It absolutely exists. And its effects are real. The explanation for how it harms you depends on what school of thought you are working from. One school of thought says this is a psychological issue and that the power of suggestion can create even real, physical illness. This is a position supported by scientific research and has been observed specifically with black magic spells. "Voodoos and Obeahs," a 1936 publication by Dr. Joseph Williams, explains this phenomenon in depth with Caribbean curses. The second school of thought states that black magic, or curses, truly exist and are powerful energetic or spiritual forces. The result is the same, in that these can harm or hurt you. Some of the things a curse can do to you include: 1. Relationship difficulties, break-ups and spousal infidelity. 2. Loss of material wealth, financial difficulty and debt. 3. Decline in energy and low sense of well-being. 4. Deterioration of physical health, sickness and even death.

Answer 4

Witchcraft exists. Magick exists, but is colourless. Curses exist, but always backfire.

To address the person who said G.W. Bush would be a toad if they did exist, let me kindly point out that when it comes to Magick and the Craft, whatever you do comes back to you times three, a la "The Threefold Law". I don't WANT to know what's three times worse than being a toad.

That being said, the Threefold Law prevents a lot of magick with ill intent being performed correctly. Those that do manage end up getting kicked in the butt somehow.

- 17 you Pagan

Answer 5

I doubt you'll find many cases of genuine witchcraft. Someone told me they were putting a "Navajo Insanity Spell" on me, and I doubt such a thing exists.

If you have Jesus, you don't have to fear curses. I get people telling me I'm being hexed from time to time, and probably many people who don't tell me take a crack at it too. I'm still here!

Here's a past answer I gave someone who thought a self proclaimed witch was giving them headaches:

"Sometimes it is the BELIEF in curses and hexes that makes them seem to "work". Your belief in the hex may cause you to have a psychosomatic illness in the form of headaches. Once you realize this, you may find your headaches will go away.

It could also be a coincidence, and your headaches could be an indication of something more serious, but I think it could be the former. Sometimes an occultist will take advantage of a situation, and claim to be the cause of someone's misfortune. Example: someone dies, the occultist will claim they had put a hex on the person and caused it, even though they never did. People will believe it though, and fear the occultist has some kind of power. It's possible your nemesis overheard you mention you had a headache, and then they decided to take credit for it. Some occultists call this "glamor" or "lesser black magic". What it really is, is just plain lying.

It's rare that anyone who claims to be in the occult can actually produce results. A Christian who has Jesus has nothing to fear from spells and hexes. I occasionally get an email from someone who says they've hexed me and I'm going to go insane or die, etc, but they never succeed."

Answer 6

I do believe in witchcraft and curses, but I also believe that you are only afflicted by what you allow to harm you. I believe the same thing about possessions.

Reliable facts? I have not heard, seen or read of any. Do they really exist? I can't say for certain, but as I said.. I believe they do.

I also believe in hauntings and spirits, in vampires, and witches. But I'm a nut-case, so don't pay no attention to moi! Seriously... don't!

*edit: LMAO @ "nurdee"!

Answer 7

Some people do engage in 'black magic' or more broadly 'witchcraft' in the belief that it will have actual real-life effects; in that sense such things do exist. Whether it actually *does* anything is questionable at best.

There is an interesting repartee to this effect in "Henry IV, Part I" - "I can call spirits from the vasty deep," Glendower declares. "Why, so can I, or so can any man," Hotspur dryly replies, "But will they come when you do call for them?"

Answer 8

We are all "energetically" connected to one another and to all things. People can wish such dark negativity onto others that it can affect them. I think that's partly how curses work. And of course there is the demonic influence of black magic. It would be really hard to discount the power of a being who raised his hand against the Most High and swore he would be higher, and still exists!

Answer 9

It is possible but at great karmic expense to the wielder of such negative magic. Its not a curse in the traditional sense of curse, but a spell performed in such a way can affect someones mood or feelings even cause them to be afraid/paranoid. but the person doing this suffers greatly mentally.

Answer 10

If you are looking for the logical answer:
No. Logic and science have eventually discredited every situation of black magic, curses etc, or they can be freak coincidences. (sure sometimes the mathmatical odds of something happening is 1in a billion, but the mathimatical odds of a freak mathimatical event happening somewhere is quite likely.)