[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Daffy Duck

I would like an expert of LoA to manifest a death for me tomorrow, say, at 8pm EST.

In my view, normally this doesn't work unless you too have a strong belief that the guy can kill you.

If that's the case, then the phenomenon is one known in Australia as "pointing the bone" (a death curse) and is carried out by killers known as the kurdaitcha:

"In 1953, a dying Aborigine named Kinjika was flown from Arnhem Land in Australia's Northern Territory to a hospital in Darwin. Tests revealed he had not been poisoned, injured, nor was he suffering from any sort of injury. Yet, the man was most definitely dying. After four days of agony spent in the hospital, Kinjika died on the fifth. It was said he died of bone pointing."

Kurdaitcha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another link here: bone@Everything2.com

In a usually public display of hatred, he points the bone at the victim, who almost immediately falls down and becomes sick. Within a few days, they are always dead. A first-hand account of this ritual is given by Dr. Herbert Basedow in his book The Australian Aboriginal, publishing in 1925:

"A man who discovers that he is being boned by an enemy is, indeed, a pitiable sight. He stands aghast, with his eyes staring at the treacherous pointer, and with his hands lifted as though to ward off the lethal medium, which he imagines is pouring into his body. His cheeks blanch and his eyes become glassy, and the expression on his face becomes horribly distorted...He attempts to shriek, but usually the sound chokes in his throat, and all one might see is froth at his mouth. His body begins to tremble and the muscles twist involuntarily. He sways backwards and falls to the ground, and for a short time appears to be in a swoon; but soon after he begins to writhe as if in mortal agony, and covering his face with his hands, begin (sic) to moan. After a while he becomes more composed and crawls to his wurley (hut). From this time onwards he sickens and frets, refusing to eat, and keeping aloof from the daily affairs of the tribe. Unless help is forthcoming in the shape of a counter-charm, administered by the hands of the "Nangarri," or medicine-man, his death is only a matter of a comparatively short time. If the coming of the medicine-man is opportune, he might be saved."

The bone-pointing syndrome may be viewed as an extreme example of the nocebo effect. Nocebos are the flip side of placebos.

Nocebo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia