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For what purpose have you summoned me? (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My grandma was a matron and used tricks like those when I was a kid.

You guys keep giving me anecdotes about how the anglosphere mistook common latinsphere practices for mystical ancient spells as a response to my post about how the anglosphere mistakes common latinsphere practices for mystical ancient spells.

I get how it would have become fancy-sounding shorthand to them, I'm saying that using it as pop-culture shorthand for mysticism feels ethnocentric and silly to me.