Question

There’s some kind of funny custom to say “Ana BeKoach,” but 7 times for each word after lighting the candles 🕎. It obviously sounds ridiculous.
They say it’s a segulah for something or other, and maybe it appears in some old book or pamphlet.
Is it possible that whoever wrote this meant to make Jews look ridiculous?
And that he was actually some anti-Semitic gentile, or a Jewish apostate who felt like having a laugh?