The most magical experiment there ever was.
The magic ingredients.
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On Friday the 13th in February, three BuzzFeed writers/amateur witches gathered in a small Manhattan apartment with the express purpose of casting spells on our co-workers — specifically, 10 colleagues who volunteered to undergo unspecified magical intentions over a period of approximately six weeks. (Good witchcraft protocol — and probably HR — states that magic only be used on willing participants.)
Our aim was to evaluate the following:
1) If magic "works."
2) If, knowing they were being subjected to amateur witchcraft, our subjects would report experiencing anything atypical during the period of study.
In order to make our nonscientific study slightly more scientific, we assigned four of our 10 volunteers to a control group, which would undergo no spells or magical intention. Each of the 10 volunteers was told that some unspecific spell was being carried out on their behalf. Over the course of the experiment, we sent each of the 10 participants three separate surveys and asked them to report on the events of the previous week.
Our initial request for participants.
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First we cleansed the apartment by burning sage and wiping the floor with rosewater. Sage and rosewater are thought to have magical properties that give witches wisdom and protection.
We also waved the burning sage over each other's bodies, in order to make ourselves as receptive to the power of the spirits and the wisdom of the universe as possible.
