Monday, July 6, 2015

An Article On Scary Voodoo Dolls

By Jordan Schmidt


Voodoo is often misunderstood by people and seen as evil magic with the help of media reports that define it as a ritual of murder. This practice can be used to yield both healing and harmful results in people thus having elements of both destruction and construction. It should be done with absolute caution bearing in mind that anything that you think or do will come back to you. Scary voodoo dolls are used by people to come up with beautiful and bad things.

Researchers claim that it originated in the 16th century where African slaves found themselves in Haiti while being ruled by Hindu and Islam religions. The practice then came to being due to this mixture of religions after which it came back to Africa where it is still practiced in the west. In Gabon and Ghana to be specific, the magic is used to cure many diseases.

If you want to make your own doll, there are guidelines online that will help you. The head is the first part to be made with the use of a foam ball and a piece of yarn. Wrap completely until the foam is completely out of sight keeping in mind the desired size. To prevent the ends from running, secure them by weaving through the middle of the ball or by a drop of glue.

The second step is looping a section of yarn to a body of length several times. It is normally repeated once where one looped bit will be the left arm and leg while the other looped bit will be the right arm and leg. For a doll to look good, the head should be quite big compared to the body.

Thirdly, the two pieces which are the head and the body are wrapped top to bottom with a string. Wrapping starts at the bottom of the loop all the way to the top in a coil manner. It should be made tight with the ends being secured with a drop of glue. The fourth and fifth step involves looping several bits of string around the head and laying out your wrapped pieces like limbs respectively.

The sixth step is wrapping the under armpits downward to the hips while starting at the top working down to the torso and then up again. If you want to come up with a chubbier doll, the wrapping has to be repeated. The final step is gluing or sewing on eyes. One can use buttons which make very nice voodoo eyes and an alternative would be using a couple of beads.

Individuals use voodoo for a variety of reasons such luck, bringing misery to foes, love and many others. People who use this magic as perceived to stick pins on the doll in order to torment people who the doll is representing. This is not the case because the practice is more complicated as there are different emotion and feelings represented by different pins used.

Additionally, there are different colors used to symbolize different things. A practitioner should think carefully on what thing they want and how it will affect their lives. After they have done it, they will stick pins in the stomach and heart regions of the doll that goes in line with what the heart desires and intuition respectively.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment