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Tradwife Learns She Can Buy Murder Spells on Etsy
My wife Simone discovered that there is a thriving marketplace on Etsy for buying customized spells. We explore love spells, money spells, curses, and even death spells being sold - often with rave reviews. While I am critical of the practice, Simone argues there may be some placebo value for people as well as lessons for building more intuitive cultures. We also touch on themes around magic & belief, the decline of religion, sympathetic magic, and compare to our experience seeing witch doctors in South Africa.
Simone Collins: [00:00:00] one final thing to check. Do they allow for hits? So spell Spell for
Malcolm Collins: murder. Oh, that's a good one. Oh my God.
Simone Collins: Donkey spell. No, no, no. They had, they sell death. Death curses. I feel like Etsy should, I mean, it's one thing to like non consensually for someone to love you. This is, it's $16, right? Like at least price it higher. It's a death spell. Can I do this? I should do this. These are like, these are like Mexico level hit prices.
Cause also you can, you can buy a hit in Mexico for
that.
Malcolm Collins: I mean, that's cheap. I need to go like Death Note on these people. If it's 16 a hit I'm just gonna start and start writing names.
Simone Collins: I give five stars for good communication.
So That's, that is very interesting. This reminds me, actually, surprisingly, of OnlyFans.
In some cases, where like, you're paying for, like, you want to make sure that, like, the woman did it only for you. So you're like, I need you to, like, hold up this level of proof that, like, this thing was performed for me only. [00:01:00] So this is like the psychic magician version of OnlyFans, where it's like, okay, I'm going to give you three photos and you need to include them
Malcolm Collins: in the ritual.
Would you like to know more?
Simone Collins: So Malcolm, as you know, I was shopping for our holiday future day on Etsy because I want some really cool like handmade stuff that's unique or vintage. And I discovered when searching for like time travel related things, Sellers sell spells on Etsy. I don't know how this works. I guess it's because they're technically handmade, but they're, they're, they're framed as digital downloads.
Malcolm Collins: Well, it looks like a lot of people buy these. Yeah,
Simone Collins: there's a, there's a lot of them. And that's the thing is like, how can there be. So many spells. So if you just search the word, I'm doing this right now. Spells
Malcolm Collins: branded spell sellers. So a lot of these will be from this group called the three witches, which appear to be three old, old women.
And I, I don't doubt that this is probably their real pictures. Like it probably is. I
Simone Collins: don't know. [00:02:00] Part of me thinks it's like, it looks to me like an AI generated. Image if we're being honest here and let's, so what are the spells called? And when one is called powerful protection, hex curse, removal, spell, premium divine favor, spell, eternal dark obsession, spell, powerful banishing spell, banish someone that you can
Malcolm Collins: look at the reviews.
So this one has 484 reviews.
Simone Collins: Okay. Which one are you? Okay. What are you looking
Malcolm Collins: at? I'm looking at unlock abundance money spell, three witches, 70 percent off today. I mean, it's probably not 70 percent off. Well,
Simone Collins: it's a deal. I mean, maybe that's how you get abundance is by getting things on sale.
Malcolm Collins: Right? So yes they make it look like it's really cheap, but this is clearly like their standard price a
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