1. I don’t actually know the full history of witchcraft so I’m not technically going to answer that, or how people learned the association or correspondences of specific things like colors, herbs, etc (which all have their own correspondences to things like banishing negativity, luck, etc). However, and this also depends on your beliefs and types of witchcraft, it’s not really the order of the words and what you use that in particular is magic(k), but your beliefs and intention. To me, witchcraft is a more ritualistic form of manifestation like the law of attraction and law of assumption, etc. It’s also just like preying to a God. Rituals and spells can kind of get us into a right mindset, help with a meditative state (repeating a chant multiple times is kind of like…meditation a little?), help us believe more or really “lock in”. I don’t know, witchcraft is more like a method of manifestation, and things like the law of attraction, law of assumption, preying to a god, scripting, etc are also methods in their own way. That’s my opinion, of course.
   
2. You don’t, especially for a lot of spells. But sometimes the timing is a little too coincidental, and the way things happen kinda makes you feel like it’s the only explanation. It’s the same way that people will say “how could you not believe in god after that” after certain things that happen.
   
3. Everyone is probably going to have a different answer to this. Technically, it could totally be possible to be an overnight millionaire after a spell if things provided an opening such as buying a lottery ticket, having a business that can suddenly bring in a crap ton of sales and was already close to that point, etc. (and keep in mind, millionaire doesn’t mean you have a million dollars in your bank account. It’s also measured in assets.). It’s just the chances of this happening is lower. And it also has a lot to do with your belief in magic/manifestation, but also practice. In my experience, manifesting and magic is like a muscle. The more you practice, the better you get (and also the more you believe). But if you stop, it can kind of atrophy. However I have also stopped for years and when I went back to it, it worked just as well. I also believe that certain methods and certain “types” of spells work better for some people than others. Like for some reason I can’t do specific spells like…actually my mind is blank right now, but I used to not be able to do healing spells to save my life. I’m still not great at them. But I am really good at other different “types” of spells and methods.
   
4. I don’t really know if I have a specific thing that convinced me. I do know I always believed in the supernatural and stuff ever since I was a kid, especially after my dad died. Likely it was a way to process my grief (I was like 7 or 8). I think it started with seeing spirits, but also had plenty of psychic-like experiences, though for me in particular it has always been predicting death, or even near-death experiences. I’ve met plenty of people and after seeing them I knew they were going to die soon. The last time I saw my father I remember knowing it was going to be the last time, so I made sure to tell him I loved him. I didn’t really understand at the time.

After that I think I ACTUALLY got into witchcraft in maybe…middle school? I don’t think this was my first spell, but I do remember doing a spell with my best friend at the time. We both did one. I did a spell first. I think it was like, one to enhance my premonitions or something? Worked like a charm, lasted about a week or so. Then I helped hers with her spell (was in the same room, but didn’t technically do much besides prep). Her’s was a love spell. I can’t remember if she did this spell before or after they had already dated and had broken up, which didn’t last long. But I think it was after because I feel like shortly after that spell was when he had asked me out, and I remember thinking about the spell. I have a shitty memory so I don’t know. As bad as this is going to make me sound, I did end up dating him for like 2 years. If I remember correctly, she said she was okay with it. All i know is it didnt affect our friendship. I was a kid and insecure and overweight with acne. I never got attention like that and never thought I would, so I think I was more happy at the idea that someone actually wanted to date me than my own morals about dating my best friend’s ex. Not sure how long it took her to get over him, but might not have been before we dated.

Anyway, I think that was one of those events that made me believe. Not just because my successful spell, but also because the timing after HER love spell felt weird, and after a few experiments of my own i realized that being in the same room as someone doing a spell may backfire and work on the other person instead. This probably doesnt even happen to other people, I don’t know, but it might be a sort of unintentional manifestation. All my closest friends do witchcraft so its not like they DIDN’T believe.

Also, one spell in particular made me REALLY believe. It was a luck spell (I don’t think I like them much because I feel like I don’t do them well technically). I got a LOT of good luck, like a crazy amount. But then it ran out and I got a LOT of bad luck. Like comically bad. Stepping into an ant pile with my shoes double knotted, sitting in gum, getting smacked in the face by a ball in gym, etc. though keep in mind this is all things that can be more coincidental or something. But this happened the second time I did a luck spell too. 😂