How does an atheist react if he learns that a person cast a curse on him and spell it with black magic witchcraft?

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“You did what?”

“We’re dumping all the waste chemicals into the storm drains. We have a guy with a very friendly arrangement with the EPA rep assigned to our territory. Saves us $340,000 per quarter. Any questions?”

Veronica held the asshole’s gaze for a few seconds without saying anything. She was a newcomer to these management meetings and was still getting a feel for the culture. This little interaction taught her everything she needed to know.

“Which county was this again?” “Forstner.”

Veronica’s eyebrows lift. “Did you read the paper last week?”

“Oh you don’t really believe that hokey shit do you?”

Veronica’s gaze swept over the rest of the conference room. A few smiles threatened to break out. “I heard they still don’t know what made the marks on that poor man’s body. They found out after the fact that he was torturing and killing squirrels. Rumor is the squirrels ganged up on him.”

Everybody there knew the story, it was all anybody could talk about. A local witches coven claimed responsibility. Police inexplicably had no leads. Veronica knew the real story. Autoerotic asyphyxiation is a dangerous hobby. Animal abuse less so, but more revolting. One of her coven sisters, who lived across the street, came across the body.

They decided this was how they’d make their mark. One of the sisters kept ferrets. The cops thought it was hilarious. It was a real small town.

Veronica smiles, “Hey, $350k is a big chunk of money, I get it John.” She levels her gaze on the exec. “I’m sure the coven won’t ever hear about it.” She tossed her purple hair and fidgeted briefly with her necklace, a pewter Celtic cross. “Carry on.” She says as she sits down.

Someone else steps up to present more boring business numbers. John’s a little peeved by Veronica’s challenge, and keeps stealing glances over at her.

Veronica is busy doing two things. Performing a surreptitious ritual such that only she and anyone else still paying attention and can understand the subtle movements her hands and lips are making. The other thing she’s doing is making periodic gazes towards John, once meeting his eyes for a brief second.

John looks around, wondering if anybody else is catching this. If they are, they aren’t letting on. Veronica, a bit more skilled in subtle social dynamics, catches a few people watching with subtle smirks.

She wraps up the ritual by catching John’s eyes, then bringing her hand up and then down in a chopping motion, then totally ignores him, engrossed in the boring business numbers. She ignores John like he doesn’t exist for the rest of the day.

A week passes, Veronica’s cold, distant, John gets the distinct feeling from her behavior that she thinks he’s a ghost, dead man walking. He doesn’t believe in witchcraft, how could he? He didn’t spend months learning how to perform rituals and raise energy. But he’s kind of stuck. and he can’t just wave it off. It doesn’t happen this week, it doesn’t happen next. But Veronica’s gotten other people on board with the freezing John out attitude. It’s getting under his skin.

After a month, he quietly calls Forstner branch and tells them to stop using the storm drain for hazardous waste disposal.

Was it psychology or was it magic? Only a skeptic needs a real answer to that question. But the results speak for themselves.

This is how my 15 year journey with magic, divinity, and wonder went. The things I wanted to believe, found a way to manifest, in mountains of different ways. Only the skeptic cares about how, because the skeptic didn’t spend the mountain of time learning, discovering, believing.

Believe harder, and the universe finds a way.