Specifically, I'm wondering if Bene Gesserit have actual "magic" like abilities with their words, or if it's simply psychological tricks using inflection, tone, and specific words.
Gesserit are often referred to as "witches" and many people believe that they are actually casting spells with their words, but this is could be just superstition, since cultural beliefs and religion are major parts of the world in Dune. but, Jessica was able to completely immobilize (i think) Gurney when he suspects her of treason.
Is the Gesserit ability to control with words absolute control like a jedi mind trick, or is it merely just a moment of disarmament, an unexpected reaction by the controlee? Or, is it rather the result of Millenia of psychological science combined with training and textbook knowledge of how certain people from certain places and contexts react to certain phrases and tones. That is, are the Gesserit tricks something that could be duplicated, like double-speech and other seemingly supernatural tricks, such as Horoscopes and palm reading (the point here being that hororscopes and palm readings use clever and specific words to be vague enough to 'predict' the future but specific enough to create belief in that prediction based on unknowingly common events in people's lives)
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