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My friends Maya, Lena, Violet, and I were obsessed with witchcraft, so we decided to try out the spells from the tattered books we'd scavenged from an abandoned factory. In my darkened living room, dressed in pajamas, we sat on the floor surrounded by cushions, the only light coming from candles flickering inside a ring of protective salt. Maya opened her book first and read aloud, 'It says each of us has to repeat the phrase three times.' Violet, her brow furrowed, whispered, 'Wow, this is strange—I can't make sense of any of it.' Another of us answered, 'The whole point is to summon something, not to understand it.' Each book was inscribed with a specific name and phrase: Maya's for a vampire, mine for a demon, Lena's for a fallen angel, and Violet's for a ghost.