Chiaki Witchcraft I'm not really a believer of witchcraft or magick, but my recent girlfriend and I were split apart by my girlfriend's best friend. She was appearently very jealous and set a spell on me. What should I do? I really didn't do anything wrong in our relationship, and the person who broke us up seems to have taken it seriously. Lain Iwakura "set a spell"? It is hard to imagine anyone in your mortal plane having enough magickal energy, if it can be called that, to cast any form of powerful spells, hexes, jinxes or otherwise. Akane Aikawa Well, magic or not, the first thing you should do is talk to your (ex)girlfriend, ne? If you two are split up and you can't think of anything wrong that happened, your (ex)girlfriend probably knows why then. Akane Aikawa But if you don't know and she doesn't know, then I wouldn't rule out magic. Of course, if you don't know and she doesn't know, I would also try to break the spell and get back together, don't you think? Akagi Ritsuko Actually, I am more perplexed by the ending comment: "and the person who broke us up seems to have taken it seriously." What were they taking seriously? Your relationship with your friend, which they decided to interfere with, or taking their "magic" seriously? I am one given to the belief that all things can be explained rationally. However, I am willing to concede that I do not have (and may not be capable of) understanding of all phenomena that have occured in this world. I am willing to say that, in this case, it is far more likely your experience is more likely due to mundane reasons than anything supernatural. Akagi Ritsuko It is well known in scientific circles, that ritual can have a very strong placebo effect. An athlete wins a crucial game and decides that the pair of socks he wore are somehow "lucky." When he wears the lucky socks, he is more confident, which leads to him playing better. When he looses his lucky socks, he looses that confidence, and plays poorly. Whether your friend's friend has any mystic abilities or not, the fact that it is openly known that she put some sort of "hex" on you to interfere with your relationship with your friend, would likely put conscious and sub-conscious pressures on that relationship, which would make it more likely to fail. Your friend may simply have not been willing to deal with their friend's open and hostile jealousy, and chose to foster that relationship at the expense of yours. Akagi Ritsuko Whether you believe magic is "real" or not. It seems clear that any effect that it can generate is due to a matter of belief. Whether a charm or potion has a real effect because the person crafting it belived in the magic and made it manifest supernatural power, or the end effect is simply a psychosomatic manifestation of the belief of the people involved, the effect is no less real. Therefore, my advice would be to deal with the effect and ignore the cause. The rest will follow. If you are concerned about losing a friend, talk with her about your concern. If you believe that her friend has nothing to be jealous about, talk to her about that. It may not win you anything, but then, if it does not, you should ask yourself whether you would really want a friend so easily swayed against you. Chiaki My girlfriend won't even talk to me and my friend say I didn't deserve her. *sigh* I guess the best is to as you have said deal with the effects. I just really feel angry at my friend for taking action on splitting me up like that. I trusted her as a really good friend.