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Should charging objects and putting up protections be considered another type of acknowledgement? it CANT be indicative of weakness, can it?
It draws attention like a bunch of pesants building a castle threatens barbarian invaders. Unless they're really intent on taking the castle the barbarians will likely move on to an easier target. But yeah you kind of are sending smoke signals to various nasties. But the signals say "stay away or else". You'd have to be pretty special to really appeal to most of these supernatural critters. If something big wants to get you there isn't much you can do to stop it except put up a big fight, fight dirty kicking and screaming, and hope it goes away. Its like trying to run from a grizzly. If it wants to get you it will. The good news is that very rarely do these kinds of things target people. Especially healthy people.