• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    1 day ago

    I think if wizards actually existed, they would seldom bother with actual curses; which seem complicated to cast and prone to backfiring. Having shown someone a little magic, they’d be very easy to trick into thinking they’ve been cursed, and the resulting paranoia, anxiety and confirmations bias would do the job. I imagine it’d be some wizard’s favorite trick. They’d gloat about it to their colleagues and they’d laugh together in their secret wizard circles.

    So a wizard would need a pretty strong incentive to cast an actual curse.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
      20·
      1 day ago

      The best part would be that if they went to another wizard to have them break the curse they’d tell them that there was no curse. More paranoia fuel.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 day ago

      Honestly I’m pretty sure you can already do this. Your average person is remarkably superstitious and believes in angels and demons and such, it doesn’t take much to also think they were cursed. Lol