Symbolism. Correspondence. As Above, So Below. “The gods are associated with Myrrh”.

I think it's called Sympathetic magic. Like if you have a lock of someone's hair, then you can cast a spell on them using it.
Either way, it's superstitious mania. Like thinking that you can hate someone to death. A specific subset of the general imaginative urge to feel like wishing real hard will get you what you want.

She's a mid tier villain. A smarter witch would have been a bit more subtle about what she was doing.

>>18000095
She was on her deathbed. She’s desperate. A witch that’s simultaneously subtle and reckless was part of the fun. She acted like a sweet old lady perfectly, but uncanny to the point where a shaper mine (like Marge) might know that something is off.

>>18000064
The wicked gods teach all these practiced to humans evo worship them. These wicked gods will be given in the hands of men who lived righteously and loved God and they will judge and punish them.

Learning to do any of these things is a one way ticket to hell. You will be in hell even before you die for evil spirits will haunt and torment you day and night.

>>18000104
>She acted the sweet old lady perfectly
No she fucking didn't, she was fucking WEIRD

>>18001112
Nah she was sweet. I would have let her into my home ridge away.

>>18001460
How did the mom not notice she was a witch before? She grew up with her right? I missed that part

>>18000064
Many cultures have a much more expansive view of the self where anything that has been part of your body, the things you create, the things you own, are all part of you. So if somebody comes into possession of those things, they have a little part of you in their control. Who knows what leverage that could give them?

>>18002645
Yeah that's a good point. Also, knowing someone's name was considered powerful as well, it gave you direct access to their identity which you could use for magic. There's lots of examples of curse tablets from the ancient middle east, Greece, and Rome, that name the person's enemy. Just looking at someone with bad intent was also considered magically effective ("the evil eye"). That one makes intuitive sense, we have an instinct to become uneasy if we notice someone staring at us because it's a social sign of aggression or that something's wrong.

>>18001484
I think she said she hadn't seen her aunt in a long time. I got the impression she didn't know her too well and didn't like her anyway.

Because those that can't know resort to mysticism.

Accusing someone of magical interference could punish enemies.