So this is a story my mom told me. She was a school teacher — she's retired now. And she had this coworker around the same age, I actually remember her, she taught CTE at our school. Anyway, this coworker's husband left her for another woman. I don't know what made her do this, but she decided she was getting him back. She went to some curandera — like this old woman someone recommended to her — and asked her to do something to bring him back. The woman warned her straight up: she could do it, but nothing good would come of it. She said it would come at a cost. And not just for the person casting it — for the one it was cast on too. Maybe the coworker didn't believe her. Maybe she just couldn't picture her life without him. Who knows. But they went through with it. And guess what? He came back. Literally within a couple months. I still remember my mom being like, "Can you believe it?? It actually worked!" But then she started telling me how they both got sick. The coworker — okay, she wasn't doing great, but it was manageable. Her husband though? He got seriously ill. Like, you could literally see him getting worse. Three years later he was gone. She still has health problems, but she's alive — and it's been like 20 years now. Look, I'm a woman. I get it. Being cheated on and abandoned is devastating. But what terrifies me even more is that these spells are apparently real. And what's even MORE terrifying is that the worst of it doesn't even hit the person who did it — it hits the person it was done to. How is that fair?? You don't even know it's happening to you, and YOU'RE the one who pays for it with your health. That's just so messed up.