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Demon-Summoning ‘Charlie Charlie’ Challenge Goes Viral
The demon-summoning Charlie Charlie challenge began on Spanish social media sites but has now gone viral in the United States. The new craze has participants using pencils to summon a demon of Mexican descent. The Charlie Charlie game is a modernized version of Juego de la Lapicera, a Spanish paper-and-pencil game. The revamped Juego de la Lapicera, interpreted game of the pens, is being played by teenagers using school supplies to produce answers to questions they ask.
The challenge features players who place a pencil across another one on a piece of paper forming the shape of a cross. Participants must write the words “yes” and “no” on the paper prior to the start of the game. After asking the question, “Charlie, Charlie are you here?” the top pencil is then said to move, using the ideomotor phenomenon, in order to indicate the spirit’s presence in the room. Like playing with the popular Ouija board, players are said to move the pencils without conscious control.
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