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From historic incantations and symbols — to modern horror movies and the childhood games we spread to scare ourselves.
"A story about three sons, for example, who go out in search of their fortune — and each of them has to go through this same sequence of actions in a certain way to try to achieve his heart's desire," she said. "If you say the name slowly and then repeat, after that, you are building up incrementally toward a state of heightened excitement and fear in which you expect something will happen after the third repetition," she said.
"It's pretty common that people would say, 'Oh I spoke this charm three times as we walked around the oaken post three times.' You might be just saying words that sound like a prayer that are just using the words in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.""For example, if you're trying to heal somebody who's sick or cast a sphere of protection around somebody, using those words in that repetitive ritualistic way is very powerful.
Bunn said a significant figure in some forms of Wicca is Hecate, borrowed from ancient Greek religion.
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