I normally don't think much about "magic", but now I'm starting to reconsider. I know that "eyewitness accounts aren't evidence", however, I'm willing to give my loved ones who I trust the benefit of the doubt, and consider that a story I was told really happened.

Today, my Grandfather told me a few stories of his encounters with "magic" or "voodoo", I don't really know what to call it. He told me that once, his friend was bitten by a poisonous snake. They rushed the guy to his dad's store and once they got there, the guy's dad called over one of his old friends who knew some sort of "magic"(I'm assuming Voodoo). The man came over, made a circle of ashes on the floor, and told the injured boy to sit down with his leg in the circle. He started waving his hands over the guy's leg while chanting, then out of no where, the same snake which bit him, crawled into the circle and died. The boy was completely healed as well.

This story, I could not verify, but my Grandfather is not the type of person to make this story up.

Another story was about a man who could "heal" people with his hands and he'd only charge $1. My Grandmother was having serious trouble with her arm, and she could barely move it. So, my Grandfather took her to this man, and he performed a "healing", waving his hands around and chanting. Right when he was done, my Grandfather told me her arm stopped hurting. At first I thought he was just making this up, or just not remembering correctly, but I later verified this with my Grandmother and Mom. I bolded mom, because she's the last person to ever admit any type of magic is real. She still tells me that she does not know how it happened.....

Any of you have similar stories?

My friend once went somewhere where they had these voodoo dolls.He said that these voodoo dolls actually worked and they hurt when they poked it with needles.

And about the healing,It could be of two things.

1.It makes the victim of the injury's mind believe that he/she is being healed.
2.It's real

Anyways,it would be cool if we could incorperate that kind of healing into hospitals.Just think of what it could do(if it's real) for the injured and dying.

I have no stories to tell I'm afriad but I've always been fascinated by Voodoo. It's a remarkable religion.

These stories are definately fun to hear. The people you speak of are often mistaken as 'witch doctors'. I'd steer clear of Witch Doctors though. Not because of their belief...but because that sort of magic and healing should not be dabbled in by most westerners as they usually know very little about it.

Thing is, assuming the magic is real, we still don't know the science behind it. So who are we to call it evil, good, dangerous, etc? It's just so interesting how alot of these types of stories come from Eldery people. Also, I live in Louisiana, which is a large part of Voodoo(New Orleans).

Yes, well I don't have any first hand accounts but my father does. When he was about 19 I would say, the exact age I dont know but it isnt important, he was on a relative's farm in England. They had a horse with a lame leg I think it was, just like a hip problem where it couldnt function as well. My father thought they were bringing in a vet when they said healer, but some woman arrived, and he swears that all she did was make like a spaid shape with her index fingers and thumbs. The area started to glow purple and the horses thigh twitched and sweated a lot. Then it was healed, I doubt that the healing was all in the horses mind lol. And I have asked about it many times, his story always the same and the horse was fine afterwards. I think this was reiki, my grandmother was like a higher up reiki teacher. So I put the two together to come to my own conclusion on what it was.

I live in place where we did not selebrate Helloween but we had a lot of trouble with our farm so my mom decide to selebrate this Helloween because we all needed some happynes

We made Faces of pumpkin and in about 24:00 one exploded
No one was near it
It just exploded from her self

No one knows whay

Interesting stories I neither believe nor disbelieve but I kne wof a pastor that would pray for people that had physical illnesses and sometime later the problem will be gone vanished with out a trace someone had cancer and had an estimated 3 months left to live when she went back it was gone.

I wish I knew someone like that I have arthritis in my right knee I fractured it 3 1/2 years ago and the bones are healed but my knee as never been the same since.

I think this may be somewhat of a prank, like a fire cracker inside the pumpkin. I know of people around my area who go and collect the pumpkins from people's houses (by collect I mean steal). Usually its a bunch of guys who go out and if one of them doesnt go one of the nights for some reason, they let all the pumpkins rot in one of their pick up trucks beds and spread it on the guys lawn, the one who didnt go. You said you usually dont celebrate halloween in your area, maybe someone else who doesnt celebrate it decided to "send you a message", just a thought.

I have a lot to tell but it's not magic.
There is something within the healer that you guys know nothing about and it's very hard to explain.
I could only say it's real.

Not many people live in my village
And no one comes to my court
Specially at night

Hmm thats interesting, well I hope you figure out what happened then. Good luck

I believe in magic
I know some magic tricks

So I believe that pumpkin exploded all by her self

I dunno, I have direct experience with something like "magic" I suppose... I don't WANT to believe it, but something happened...

When I went into labor with my daughter my labor coach, (a close family friend and ER nurse) took me to the hospital. When the doc checked me out, the baby was transverse (or laying sideways, not breech). The general idea was the baby would either have to be turned manually (ew) or I'd have to have a c-section. My friend, a respected nurse at the hospital I was in said she'd like to try something before any decisions were made.

She clapped her hands together several times, rubbed her palms together, and held them about an inch over my tummy-she never touched me. Every tiny little hair on my belly stood up on end (static electricity?), then a wave of nausea and and almost zero gravity feel washed over me like being on a roller coaster. We watched my stomach heave, and baby was head down and born 20 minutes later and I felt no pain and had no drugs.

Weird, I don't know that it was magic or reki, or what happened there... but it was convenient none-the-less!

I know that kind of technique or whatever you call it, but it wasn't magic.

I have no idea what happened, I'm not sure I really care... but it did happen. There's a few medical techniques that involve massage and external manipulation that can help turn a baby, but that's usually done weeks before the birth... since I had very little medical care when I was pregnant, I never received that particular treatment. My doc didn't even know she was transverse until I went into labor.

Nothing to do with Voodoo, but an interesting story, none the less.

My mums the biggest skeptic ever. She's a woman of science and doesn't believe anything she can't see. But this, I could see chilled her.

She told me a story about the levitation. Apparently, in the school yard, they used to always try and make a person levitate. It only worked this once, then unsurprisingly they stopped. Haha ! Apparently, the person who volunteered to be the levitated one laid on the grass. Several girls including my mum, sat around in a circle around this girl, with two fingers each under the girl. They then began chanting. She wouldn't tell me what they chanted, but began repeating a certain poem over and over. The girl then lifted "about an inch", according to my mum, (but knowing how rubbish my mum is with measurements, it was probably more like a centimeter, if at all. Anyway, I digress...), when the girl screamed, fell to the floor and then was put in a coma ?!

I don't know how much truth lies in the story, but I know what my mum's like, and she's not one to make up stories, especially about things she can't really prove.

my granny is always tellin me of things that happem to her....um as she was told by a psychic after running away to CA when she was about 18 "u have gifts of ur own u just haveta figuar out how to use them" the psychic told her. she told her other things and my granny said that evetything the psychic told her so far has happened except her death the psychic told her that one day she would get in a white car and never get out ..the only time my granny got in a white car she almost had 3 acidents. my granny also tells me that she was able to start fires and she is and was able to do alot of other things...my aunt and my mom r able to do these things to. so ..like my mom is able to heal people and my aunt has empath. I also have shown that i am able to do things such as telepathy empathy and a few others but my granny is always tellin me stuff....like one time she was watchin a fire in her fireplace in a home she just moved into she says outta now where a black cat jumped from the flames and walked across the floor and disapeared that very night she left the house and all her things that was in it..I have many stories ...way to much to tell here so if any one is interested then leave me a message .....plus I know alot of things and I am able to give good readins so if any one is in need of a lil help leave me a message I will rtry my best to help u out

Oh I know this one well... this is a FAVORITE slumber party game for all little girls and sometimes it does work, but it has a very sound scientific reason it works. when you get several girls evenly spaced each with two fingers under the person you can lift them up and they don't even feel that heavy--the weight is evenly distributed, it's even more fun when one girl pulls her hands back and the "victim" is still "floating". I think the coma part was probably an embellishment. The chant they were saying was likely "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" over and over. I'm not sure I know a single little girl that didn't play this game at a slumber party (generally right after the Ouji board session )

I have to say, I've always been too scared to try anything of that sort. Call me a chicken (actually, don't that would hurt my feelings *emo tear*). I still don't get how it could work, I mean, logically, I know weight would be evenly divided but I don't ... I just don't understand.

Going back to what Clue said, I've had random Gypsies walk up to me and tell me I have gifts, but then they ask me for twenty quid to tell me what they are. lol.

Oh, don't worry about it, it's actually a fun little scientific experiment. Of course, you'd probably have a hard time finding a bunch of adults to actually do it. It actually don't always work... but if you pick some little waif whose less than 100lbs, you have a pretty good chance of lifting them up. There's nothing "scary" about it.