US man sues psychic who 'promised to remove ex-girlfriend curse'

[Angrboda]

Certainly the word and label exists sure. But they do not have the power of anything real. It is still a con.

Just like the lady in the box isn't really being sawed in half in the magic show.

It is a mental con on their part. It only seems real to the people who are gullible enough to buy their crap.

If one wants to believe in Santa or Unicorns bad enough, they will.

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https://medium.com/skeptikai/the-real-st...b9a7220d34

Ok then, why is it widely attributed to P.T. Barnum then? If he didn't originally say that, could it be said he repeated it and popularized it? 

Could it be like some of Edison's claimed inventions that he really didn't invent, but merely beat his competitors to the patent office?

You should read the article you linked, then you’d know.

Rochester Institute of Technology professor Nicholas DiFonzo described in his 2008 book The Watercooler Effect, that Barnum’s biography could not verify this attribution at all. Rather, it was likely that a banker named David Hannum from Syracuse, New York who actually said it. 

The article also mentions that it was linked to Barnum due to the Cardiff Giant double hoax. But there’s simply no evidence that Barnum ever said it. He was too savvy a businessman to risk alienating his own customers.

Boru

You're forgetting Theist Logic 101. A lot of people believe he said it and that's evidence that he did say it. What's the possibility that all these people are lying? They didn't just magically all invent the same story which happens to agree on all the details based on nothing. Maybe some of the details are wrong, but it had to have originated with some core truth.