If you had any doubts we live in a superstitious culture, look at how people are now treating individual words, as if they were fetishes, inanimate objects possessed of demonic, contaminating powers.

— Patrick Lee Miller (@Plato4Now) March 3, 2021

Raised in a climate where words hold all power, like many are, it’s no surprise that many come to believe spells work. Alas power is not really that way.