I mean, this is going to be pretty

I mean, this is going to be pretty exciting.

Yeah. What are we doing?

What we're doing is scratching our control group scratcher tickets.

I mean, what's really happening here is magic.

That's me talking to my producer, Ethan Cheel.

This week, we bought a quick money spell for Etsy, or I did. Ethan didn't, and he's our control group. We're testing the results of my totally normal adult purchase in the most responsible way, by scratching lotto tickets.

They look like, scratch the letters first. These here? At the bottom? Yeah. Because it is a fake crossword puzzle, which is the extra, I believe, that having to put the extra work in makes you more likely to win.

And that is a scientific analysis based on dozens of scratcher tickets that I have scratched.

Why did I buy a spell online?

Because you can buy spells online.

Jaya Saxena also hired Netsi Witch.

She wrote about it for the Daily Dot.

Jaya discovered that it was possible to purchase spells on the internet's never-ending craft fair

while working on a different article about homemade Valentine's Day gifts.

My editor, Cooper Fleischman, was like, you have to order a spell.

You have to do this.

And so I just started looking around at what spells were available. There are a lot of spells available online. Spells to make someone

fall in love with you, spells to increase your financial prosperity, spells for weight loss and

revenge in the supposedly elusive female orgasm. But Jaya knew there was only one spell for her.

I don't know.

It just sort of seemed very obvious to me that a sex spell would be the one to choose.

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