Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Robert The Cursed Doll

Robert The Cursed Doll
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Monday, 28 January 2013

Menstrual Blood

Menstrual Blood
In the practice of hoodoo/rootwork/conjure, men are warned not to accept drinks or foods, especially dark colored drinks or soups or stews, from women who are strangers or who are suspected of being witches. One of the activities associated with witches is that they will sneak some of their menstrual blood into a man's food or drink in order to have power over him and control him.

Today the practice of sneaking menstrual blood into the food or drink of a man is being taught as if it is a standard and normal practice for female practitioners. In the past this belief was more of an urban legend or fear that men had. It was also a common belief that certain mothers had when they felt their sons had become enthralled with a bad woman. Thus the excuse was that the woman was at fault because she had dosed the son's drink and thus the son was blameless.

Origin: goddesses-and-gods.blogspot.com

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

The Kenyan Inquisition

The Kenyan Inquisition
Yesterday a vigilante mob in Kenya killed 15 people suspected of practicing witchcraft. The vigilante group believed to be responsible for inciting the violence is officially outlawed and hopefully its members will be arrested and brought to trial, rather than ignored by authorities like they are in some parts of the world.

Magick can prove to be an insidious excuse for violence, as it instills fear and its use is difficult to demonstrate reliably. Just like the witchcraft persecutions in Europe centuries ago, it appears from the article that the victims were not witches or wizards or spiritual workers of any sort, just elderly folks who had managed to accumulate enemies over the years.

The times and places may change, but human nature and mob psychology stay pretty much the same.

UPDATE: Today arrests have been made in the case, just one day after the killings. Hopefully this will help keep the violence from continuing or escalating.

Friday, 3 July 2009

History Of Voodoo Spells Witchcraft

WITCHCRAFT, AS THEY SAY, IN AFRICA AND INDIA, SHAMANS, PROPHECY AND WOMEN, AND THEIR CEREMONY TO ENSURE THAT THROUGH THEIR GOD,

their love spells spiritual origins of ancient civilization, you can join him once the body is returned to Earth. Before anyone can become a shaman or the people of Oracle, it is important that the spirit can enter the body and the body strong enough to resist the power from above. The ceremony is one thing and dance and song VOODOO SPELLS of the last major election, the leader must do. If a wise man has shown its strength, only they have the knowledge that God wanted her to be held in the King and other residents. To become a shaman, or Oracle, a great responsibility lies with people. After the launch of his, they should be in hand to the world at any time the spirit.

For Oracle, or shaman, receive messages, you must first know the spiritual essence of the world should be respected, because they want to be treated. Witchcraft people, is that the ancestral spirits are still on earth to go with them and beyond. Witchcraft In India, these ancestors are called Kachinas. Many people fear that if they angered the spirit, then you can make this life worse, in accordance with strict laws and wise practices.

The cure rate is in LOVE SPELLS African culture and India, where the main role in the practice of witchcraft. Spiritual knowledge in order to get medical treatment, Wiseman witchcraft must enter a trance state, to hear and see the problem the pictures. The trance state is achieved in the cost of their lives, often using herbs, music, fasting and meditation to improve their ability to provide the spirit with their own body. Receive e-mail, then you can start using amulets healing rituals, superstition, or wrist, or a simple individual elements of nature management. To treat patients is a major respect, smart people, because it must have a strong spiritual impact of the diagnosis of both conditions and knowledge to build the necessary elements of human treatment.

Witchcraft, voodoo spells and this is with the African and Native American Shamanism related, most commonly associated with New Orleans, the French colony in southeastern Louisiana. New Orleans was originally run by the slave trade in the city, people around the world composed of the population. Stories of a slave voyage and the spirit of the devil, and gradually from a new cultural life, reflecting the transfer of its former foreign ancestors. The lives of those people who believe in sorcery and more by superstitious practices and concepts prevalent in the community directed. They surrounded the spirit and nature, respect towards you, if they perform simple tasks, their faith. Have you ever walked the sidewalk cracks, or refuse to look in the mirror broken? Sometimes, even throw in your left shoulder after stroke salt? These are very in Africa, the practice of the ancient Native American curse of witchcraft, and the Catholic Church, this time so that part of the way in the United States.

Voodoo priests and priestesses of New Orleans have a lot of practice, and subsequently with his sick leave bags of grass, or create a voodoo doll. Voodoo doll in use in many other cultures, but also the people of New Orleans is said to be in retaliation for the purpose, or for the healing of our customers, when they can not make use of your time in a long time. These dolls are usually with the user (for example, a lock of hair or clothing) Cloth, to ensure that the digital connection to good numbers. These rituals can be present in the absence of target, the consequences can be immediately or within a few days. Voodoo dolls can also be used to send messages of peace, or to ask advice of others, or give them life caused by appreciation of the rewards of this nature.

At that time, many MAGIC SPELLS people converted to Catholicism, witchcraft is considered an attack on their faith, doctors in hiding, but many people magic spells still large, because this is the time before. Many of these practices Voodoo began including Underground Catholic literature, the cross or pray to the gods and saints of the signs of their religion. Catholic Church decided that witchcraft is not a threat to their church, and your two religions can live in harmony. This mixture of religion has not diminished over the centuries, New Orleans is still a big business today witchcraft.

Credit: wizard-notes.blogspot.com

Sunday, 12 April 2009

Robert The Evil Doll

Robert The Evil Doll
My recent post about the evil doll, Annabelle got me thinking about dolls. It seems I am not the only one who is afraid of dolls and it also seems like there is a good reason. The association between dolls or poppets and witchcraft and evil goes back as long as there have been dolls. During the Salem witch trials, mere possession of one of these diabolical items was enough to earn you the title of witch. Dolls, throughout history, have been used in magic as symbolic ties to real people or supernatural entities. It is not surprising that books are filled with stories of cursed and evil dolls.

The most famous and diabolical of the cursed dolls is a doll named Robert. Robert was a gift to a young boy named Gene Otto. The doll was made of straw and was given to him by a maid. If the legend is true, the maid was angry at the Gene's family for dismissing her and the doll was actually a voodoo doll designed specifically to hurt Gene and is family. After the doll was given to Gene, the family began to notice that Gene had an unnatural attachment to the doll. Gene took it everywhere with him and spent many hours in his room alone conversing with the doll. Witnesses say that when they listened in on Gene they heard two voices speaking when Gene was alone in the room with his doll.

Time past and Robert's malevolence grew. Witnesses began to report seeing the doll moving from window to window. The Otto's claimed that they saw the doll move and heard him giggle. Often things in the house would turn up broken and when the Otto's confronted Gene about the incidences he would say, "Robert did it." Gene began having nightmares. One night the parents ran into his room and found Gene screaming. All of the furniture was overturned and Robert was standing over Gene. The doll collapsed when the Ottos walked in.

Time didn't seem to tarnish Gene's attachment to the doll and even as an adult he kept the doll with him. Gene remained in his family home with his doll after his parents died. Gene got married and Robert became a source of difficulties in the marriage and it ended. Finally, Gene tried to lock the doll in the attic, which is where Robert was found after Gene's death. Today, Robert lives in a Key West museum where he is reported to have continued his wicked works.

Saturday, 4 April 2009

Magick For Profit

Magick For Profit
This article showed up today in my news alerts. I took a look through it, decided to comment on it, and then... well, I'll get to that.

Looking for free witchcraft spells? Many people are.

Sure! Why not? While I'm not precisely into "witchcraft" I'm always interested in checking out techniques that have worked for other magicians and comparing methods.

And why do you want free witchcraft spells? Do you want free witchcraft spells to find "true love", free witchcraft spells to hog-tie that wayward ex and drag them back, free witchcraft spells to make you sexier, smarter, stronger, healthier and, of course, free witchcraft spells to make you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams?

Definitely! Or at least I'm interested in magick that could in theory help me do all these things and augment the techniques that I've already developed to accomplish similar goals.

The problem with free witchcraft spells is that they are not worth the paper they are printed on.

I'm sure this is news to all of the traditional witches out there who maintain that teachings about the craft should be offered free of charge. While I agree that there are a lot of published spells out that are not all that useful, in my experience the cost of said spells has little to do with their usefulness.

For that matter, this is news to me. The spells I publish on this website and offer for free have worked well for me in the past, and I think it's great to have the opportunity to share my knowledge and experience with other practitioners.

These days, if you were to toddle into your local bookshop, close your eyes and fling a dart, there's a reasonably good chance you'd hit a spell book. There's an even better chance that you'd be forcibly ejected from the shop shortly thereafter, so I'm not advocating this practice. It does, though, make the point that this literary genre has never been more popular.

Maybe if you're at Magus Books (I couldn't resist inserting a plug for my favorite occult bookstore here in the Twin Cities), but in fact the occult sections at stores like Barnes and Noble or Borders are pretty small, one or two shelving units at most. And not all of the occult books they sell are "spell books" in the conventional sense.

I suppose that one could argue that such books have never been more popular, but that's because they never have been all that popular. The interest today still represents a tiny percentage of the reading market.

Everybody wants witchcraft spells, but nobody want to go into the bookshops and pay for them. Which is just as well, really, since that would be a pointless waste of money in most cases.

I'm beginning to think that the author of this article must live in a community composed solely of impoverished pagans who can't afford to stock their libraries. "Everybody" wants spells? Really?

Most people in Western societies don't even believe that magick works. The ratio of spirit workers to non-magical people has varied between about 1 in 30 and 1 in 50 throughout human history, from societies with tribal Shamans to the priesthood of ancient Egypt. That suggests to me that the segment of humanity interested in magical spirituality is and has always been a tiny minority of the population - 2-3% at most.

The biggest Witchy complaint against spell books or free witchcraft spells online is that the spells don't (or possibly can't) work. The spell in the spell book or the free witchcraft spell on the web page looks comparable to a recipe, but whereas Delia Smith can reliably lead most of us through the creation of an omelette, the compiler of spells is less likely to guide the average punter to health, wealth and insuperable sexual charisma.

Let's see, I publish free spells on this blog, so I guess the author is calling me a loser. Nice.

The better authors in the field make it clear that the spell isn't really the equivalent of the recipe for "Grandma's Mushroom Meatloaf". It's more like sheet music: valuable to those who have put the effort into learning how to read music and perhaps play an instrument, but bookshelf clutter to those who haven't.

Finally, here's something that I agree with completely. A spell made up of the best techniques in the world is useless to somebody who hasn't developed their magical abilities. That's why I recommend a serious period of daily practices to rank beginners prior to the use of any of the free spells that I have available here. You need to get yourself in shape before you try to lift heavy weights.

Free witchcraft spells as no more than electronic bookmark clutter if you haven't learned how to work magic. The free witchcraft spells you will find online often contain expensive ingredients which, co-incidentally, are supplied BY the writer of the free witchcraft spells. Go figure.

Again, correct as far as it goes. You need to learn to use spells properly in order to get decent results with them. And it's pretty cynical to imagine people putting spells out there in order to sell spell materials, even though I'm guessing that plenty of such folks exist.

But what's going on here? Does the author think it's bad that people who post spells want to find a way to make money, or bad that people aren't willing to pay for the spells? Which one is it?

Well, clicking on this link at the end of the article I found out. THE WEBSITE IS A FREAKING INFOMERCIAL! See, the problem is not that people should pay for books, or that they should pay for materials, or that they want to learn magick for free, but that THEY WANT TO DO IT ALL WITHOUT PAYING THE AUTHOR OF THE WEBSITE. And wow, does she sound like a pro:

"Who Else Wants To Know How To use the ultimate power of awesome magical forces to lift your vital energies, find and keep your perfect partner and become a MONEY MAGNET!?"

To get the proper effect, imagine the quote in big letters that would do Billy Mays proud. The promo goes on to explain how much the author's book is really "worth" and then asserts it to be a bargain at ONLY 27, just like the claims you might find in an ad for a salad shooter. "But wait! You also get..."

I suppose being a hypocrite must be fun, or at least profitable. After all, why else would there be so many of them around?