Influencer Kit Barrus claims she believed her male college friend was performing some kind of ritual on her in order to make her fall in love with him after she repeatedly refused him romantically.
A few days after his visit to a poker night she hosted at her place, Barrus found a handmade piece of jewelry with her name written on it among the kitchen clutter. After researching its meaning online, she became convinced the item had been intentionally left there as a tool for a spell on her.
Barrus first met the guy in math class, where they worked together on a group assignment. When her current relationship failed, he started inviting her on outings and even playing video games with her. He also engaged in spiritual conversations with her.
“My boyfriend and I broke up, and he was super nice. He started inviting me around a lot, usually in group settings, and we’d have these really deep talks late at night,” said Barrus.
Over time, Barrus realized the guy was interested in more than just being a friend. She told him several times that she did not see them as a couple.
“I told him multiple times, ‘Look, I really just don’t think this is going to work out. I don’t think we’re a good pair and I don’t think we’d mesh well,'” she remembered.
She also saw practical reasons to reject his advances.
“At the time, I was making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I remember thinking, I don’t need you to be rich, but our lives are just in completely different places,” she said.
Despite the girl’s attitude, they kept being friends until the poker night at Barrus’s place, after which his behavior surprised her.
“He came into my house, and he was really quiet and weird the whole time,” Barrus said. “He sat in this corner of my kitchen and then eventually he left and went home. I didn’t really think anything of it.”
Two days later, while cleaning the kitchen, Barrus discovered a plastic zip-lock bag under a decoration lying on the kitchen shelf.
“I pulled it out, and there was this necklace or bracelet inside,” she said. “It had ‘Kit’ on it. I remember looking at it and thinking, ‘What the f*** is this?”
Knowing her friend’s interest in spirituality, Barrus rushed to research the possible meaning of such jewelry online. The results made her understand that the bracelet was made as part of a spiritual ritual intended to attract someone romantically.
“He was very, very spiritual, so I Googled it,” Barrus said. “Apparently there’s this thing where you make someone a piece of jewelry, and while you’re making it, you think about them and put your intentions into it. Then you leave it where they live so the energy is supposed to flow into them or whatever.”
Barrus immediately showed him the picture of the jewelry she found.
“I messaged him like, ‘Bro, what the f*** is this?'” she said. “He was like, ‘It’s just your bracelet. I thought you’d like it.’ And I was like, ‘Don’t give me that. I know you. You’ve put this thing in my house.'”
According to Barrus, the guy admitted to making the bracelet for her but claimed it wasn’t meant to be a spell.
“He admitted he made it for me, but he wouldn’t admit it was a hex,” she said. “I was like, ‘It’s a hex. You left it in a bag. I Googled it. This is literally a spell I can find on the internet.'”
Barrus recalled that the man always talked about spirituality and never kept it secret.
“He talked about spirituality all the time,” she said. “He actually ran a spirituality club on campus. His room was full of books. He was very, very into this stuff.”
In hindsight, Barrus recognized she had missed more signs of how serious his feelings were.
“He wrote me this whole two-page letter about how much he liked me and how much he was looking forward to getting closer to me,” she said. “And I literally thought, ‘Wow, what a good friend.’ In retrospect, yes, it was very obvious. At the time I just didn’t get it.”
Finding the bracelet became the final straw that ended their friendship.
“That was basically the last conversation we ever had,” Barrus said.
Though she occasionally met the guy at college afterward, she made it a point to avoid him.
“I’d see him, and I was basically like, nope, run away,” she recalled.
Barrus said the strangest thing about the situation wasn’t that the ritual could work, but that the one who was repeatedly rejected managed to plant an object in her house.
“I had already told him it wasn’t happening,” she said. “Finding something hidden inside my own house after that was just too much. Spell or no spell, it was creepy.”
