“If I believe it won’t work, it won’t”

ofwoodandbone:

*My own opinion, and what I’ve found from my many long years with witchcraft.

If the witch casting it doesn’t believe their spell will work, it usually won’t. Even if they’re a naturally gifted witch, they’ll be suppressing themselves. 

However, if you are the target of a spell, saying those words won’t break the spell. It won’t protect you and it won’t magically disrupt that witch’s working, particularly if they’ve packed some force behind it. 
Granted, if they themselves are strong and they state “it won’t work”, it may have enough mojo behind it to halt the spell. In any other case it isn’t going to do anything. 
The way I interpret the phrase “If I don’t believe in the curse, it won’t affect me” is that whatever is giving that person a hell of a time is there, they just won’t call it a curse. To them, it’ll be ill luck, it’ll be fate, it’ll be anything but the curse. The ‘curse’ itself isn’t affecting them in their mind. But if they’re having a rough time, and that’s what the witch is question wanted, their working was successful.