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The benefits to having charisma are obvious. I'm wondering about the benefits of being under the spell. Having a property (x) that leads people to follow you is way beneficial for survival. But how is it that humans evolved to follow people with characteristic x. Presumably it is some kind of proxy for competence in the ancestral environment. Or a side effect of something else.
There are sometimes very large benefits to "being under the spell". It's most obvious in military contexts, where signaling disloyalty is likely to be fatal.