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I was watching a documentary on different types of magick. It started to talk about voodoo and how if you want a spell to work some people inflict pain onthemselves. Such as fasting,eating hot peppers. They believe that this gets the spirits attention becaues they hate seeing people in pain and makes them want to help with the will you want to bring fourth.

Now I'm not saying I want to do this. But I found it fascinating. Has anyone heard of anyone doing this? what were the results if so?