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I get what you mean, I've been frequenting HN for years so I know the crowd. Regarding magic, to me it's not so much about whether magic exists but what it is. Sure, it's trickery, originally I guess it is what we would call technology, only wider, technology and psychology perhaps. It's about making things come to happen. I guess I could put it this way, Clarke's quote ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indis…
from what you've just stated it's fine. What I meant is that there are people who believe you could levitate objects with your mind (like in the xmen comic books) and since you're writing about things that are already really, really outlandish it's SUPER-important not to fall into a comic-book style of narration!! :) If you thought you (or anyone) could actually levitate objects with your mind (and no technology) the…
Regarding the events, it's not comics. It's happening, and it's gotten worse the last 10 years. Voodoo comes from the deltas stretching from eastern Ghana over Togo and Benin to western Nigeria. Whatever it is they do they wield considerable control over people, to the point where big investments are dropped, houses never finished, parents leaving babies to fend for themselves.
But it's like @qb45 says, just google it. I want to advise though that there are many rumours as well, not the least because witch doctors have an interest in building the fear and the criminals want to instil respect and keep away nosy people.
Lastly, you come across as pretty rude to me. Just want to remind you that their is another person writing this, and I don't particularly like being talked about in third person and discredited for sharing an experience. So a piece of advice in return, think for a moment about they way you write about my writing having "issues" or what is or is not "needed", and it'll be fine.