They only work on Etsy. That's why they banned witches from selling their services there.

They don't actually believe most of this stuff though, they are playing the sheep.

Covid did make me realize a lot more of them believe it more than I thought though.

I mean, it's just other magic.

Amen brotha!

What also floats in water?

I know the reference but just fyi, this was not nearly as common as claimed and not responsible for a lot of witch trial stuff. It was more like cops interrogating people until they freak out, then claim "fine I wrote my name in the devil's book, but Becky did too!!" And then it ended up some prosecutorial bullshit with them wanting a confession out of everyone.

The "funny" thing is, those that confessed and repented often survived and lived normal lives. It's more people that denied it and had others claim they were witches were executed.

And there are weird instances like a guy who confessed but was still executed... But he legitimately was giving divinations, and telling people how many children they would have. Like a back in the day psychic. The witch trial stuff really, really didn't like divination. Herbs and midwifery stuff was way less of a big deal, and an honored profession being a "physic". It was not considered witchcraft to use herbs to heal people unless you did weird rituals.

For grain to give you hallucinations, it has to be rye grain and in a cold and wet climate, which ergot specifically would grow in. Then the rye grain itself would grow big black visible horns, and they would still need to not discard that obvious contaminated grain and grind it into flour. Then that flour was eaten, and they hallucinated. And it fucked up your veins and gave you black limbs often too.

There's often not great evidence for this phenomenon unless they are in a cold and damp area growing rye, and report the medical issues on top, black limbs.

People act like if you let bread mold it'll grow it, but that's not the case. It's much more rare of a phenomenon, a fungus that attacks rye itself.

Lack of education, mostly

Why do the evil people always point at someone else and say the evil is over there?

psychological projection and/or political expediency

Actually that’s not my question, my question is why do people fall for it when they do this?

A subset of the population wants to fall for it. There was a recent essay (can't find it now) that described public repetition of the dear leader's bullshit as a way to demonstrate membership in the tribe. A political altar call, if you will. In this scenario the more outrageous the statement the better it functions to show group loyalty. "I am willing to say this galactically stupid and trivially disprovable stuff in public so I must be a true believer, right? Right?"

why do people fall for it when they do this?

stupidity.

Brainwashed/indoctrination since childhood.

They made me WANT to listen to "devil music" in the 80s.

Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

Really? These walnuts are all over the country. And the satanic scare wasn't exactly centuries ago.

Who are thee who is so wise in the ways of science?