I bet this poor guy won’t even get a refund. I would advice against doing this at home if your faith is weak.
Say hello to Darwin in heaven, sir.
Linky?
People, don’t be so specific in your charms. He probably died of blood loss, for which he obviously had no charm. Go for the charm against death - you pay a bit extra but at the end of the day you’ll know where the moneys gone.
This kind of thing has happened many times (googling, I easily found a dozen incidents throughout the past few years). I think that the OP might be referring to this particular incident:
Sorry about that. I had it but forgot to insert it…then ninjaed…my web charms aren’t working.
That’s the one. I feel bad for his family because his death was pointless and utterly avoidable.
Those charms only work if you shoot through a book first.
What’s Nigerian for ‘hold my beer’?
He should have taken the hint when “Expecto Patronum” conjured up a dodo bird.
Regards,
Shodan
It appears he only paid for level IIIa charms.
It seems to me that anyone who accuses a child of witchcraft should be obliged to test their theory by making the child cast a spell to inoculate them against bullets. Then it will be easy to prove the child is a witch by testing the magic in the manner of the OP.
Nonsense - we weighed the child, and found she was made of wood. Therefore - a witch.
Regards,
Shodan
A charm against bullets that was 50% effective (stopped or caused to miss about half of bullets) would be great. 30% would still be pretty good. I’d guess I’d still be willing to pay for 5-10% efficacy.
Then you’d still be chuckling over my body, most days.
I guess I’m just saying (that as is true in medicine), efficacy of less than 100% does not mean lack of efficacy. How effective will be your next flu shot?
Yeah, this seems to be somewhat common. When we were down in South Africa about, shit, 17 years ago (has it really been that long?) doing a story on the anti-carjacking squad in Johannesburg, we were told about mutis (traditional medicines/charms) that carjackers were found with that they thought would protect them from bullets. The story was relayed to us both by the police as well as some sangomas (I guess what we might call a “witch doctor,” but more properly translated as a “traditional healer” or something like that.)
Reminds me of the American Indian Ghost Shirt and Ghost Dance.
Their magical bullet proof properties didn’t quite match the owners expectations.
This reminds me of the shaman who thought that he had power over crocodiles but it turned out that he didn’t. (Or the Ghost Shirts that were supposed to be bulletproof but weren’t.)
My first trip to NOLA included a visit to a voodoo shop. I brought my kids home a few different charms. My son carried his chicken foot until it started to stink (I explained to him it absorbed negativity and the stink meant it worked). My daughter loved her anti-envy soap.
Yes, I paid the extra $10 to get the items blessed by a voodoo priestess.
Such a belief system also didn’t work out very well for the Boxers in 1900 (or if you prefer, the Righteous and Harmonious Fists).
Wasn’t there a story a decade or two back about a guy who was killed because he thought he could use his amazing brain power to stop a train? I tried googling, but came up empty and I’m at work so I can’t really spend all after noon on it.