the poor/sick wanted to be healthy/rich. and so they sought out anyone that offered them their dreams
these dream offering people would not heal/make them rich. but played on the naiveness and greed of their victims.
setting them impossible tasks as phase one to the scam. like 'kill your first born' this initially was meant as a scare tactic where obviously they would refuse wanting to kill their first born to get their naive greed/dream reached.
the witchcraft scammer then offers the real thing the witch wants, as a more reasonable task. "pay the witch just XXcurrency, instead of killing first born.. and when the
over the years. some took the first phase of witchcraft scam(threatening death just to scare people into paying) too seriously and so some actually went ahead with killing and maiming people and animals.
and so witchcraft changed from a scam method to scare people into paying currency(grey witches). into witchcraft of actual death and injury. (black witches)
modern teenagers are just as naive as the ancient tribal cultures. and will do anything to get an advantage.
heck teenagers think they are free of consequence because they are wrongly told they cant be arrested. which is why kids get into drugs (until they learn about juvenile prison the hard way)
which is why in some countries you will see naive teens think they can steal, bully, threaten, harm to get what they want and think they can get away with it. and mainly in developing countries where they take it a step further into violence and death
what people can learn from this is:
first teach the kids that juvenile prison is a real thing. and their age does not make them immune from prosecution.
THEN teach them about how to avoid prison by their actions(dont hurt people, dont steal)
THEN teach them to not believe the cultish, witchcraft, scam group crap they see on the internet.
usually kids dont listen to moral advice if they think there is no consequence... so start by mentioning the consequences. and then give them a reason to listen to the advice
