My grandma was a matron and used tricks like those when I was a kid.

You guys keep giving me anecdotes about how the anglosphere mistook common latinsphere practices for mystical ancient spells as a response to my post about how the anglosphere mistakes common latinsphere practices for mystical ancient spells.

I get how it would have become fancy-sounding shorthand to them, I’m saying that using it as pop-culture shorthand for mysticism feels ethnocentric and silly to me.