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How to Use a Voodoo Doll
Once you purchase a handcrafted magickal Voodoo doll from Planet Voodoo, follow these instructions to draw upon its powerful energies to help you achieve the change you seek.
Voodoo dolls from Planet Voodoo are carefully crafted to house or represent a specific lwa (loa) or deity, and then ritually consecrated to awaken the life force (aché) of that particular spirit or deity. Using the finest herbs, oils, materials, sacred fetishes, stones, and symbols, each magickal doll properly represents a conduit to our beloved Voodoo Spirits!
How to Use an Authentic Voodoo Doll from Planet Voodoo
Using dolls and effigies in sympathetic magic rituals is as old as humankind. More often than not, ritual dolls and effigies were used for healing, fertility, and empowerment. In some cultures such as
ancient Greece, they were used to bind enemies. European poppets were widely used in folk magic and witchcraft to curse an enemy. Other types of dolls were used in harvest customs and burial rites, made as talismans, or used as teaching aids for children.
Although they are most commonly depicted as objects of revenge, Voodoo dolls are most often used for healing, finding true love, and spiritual guidance.
When you use a Voodoo doll for magickal and ritualistic purposes, you are entering into a magickal contract with the Spirits you petition and the forces of the Universe. This requires you to practice co-creating your own reality. This means taking responsibility for the things you can change in your life and taking advantage of opportunities that come your way to help manifest your desire.
Use as a Focusing Tool
By far the most common use of a Voodoo doll is their use as focusing tools in ritual and meditation. This involves holding your doll while concentrating on your desires, or placing the doll on your altar where you can fix your gaze upon it while concentrating on your desire.
Use in Candle Magick
To use your Voodoo doll in candle magick, procure a candle in the color that
is appropriate for your need. Light the candle, and write a petition that
states your desired goal on a slip of paper and set it under the candle.
Hold your doll and focus intently on what you need. Set the doll next to the
candle and let the candle burn out. After the candle has burned out, take
the petition and attach it to your doll. After nine days, burn the petition
and scatter the ashes to the East.
Use with the Seven Pins
Pins, nails, needles, and fish bones have been used in conjunction with Voodoo dolls or its predecessors the nkisi or bocio or Africa for centuries.
Symbolism of the 7 pin colors:
yellow - success
white - positive
red - power
purple - spirituality
green - money
blue - love
black - repelling negative energy
Use to Petition the Loa
To use your Voodoo doll to petition a particular loa, light a candle in the appropriate color of the loa, and make offerings to the loa. For example, to use Papa Legba Voodoo doll as a focusing tool you would light a red or black candle (his favorite colors), and greet him with his ritual greeting,
"Odu Legba, Papa Legba, open the door, I am waiting. Open the door Papa Legba, open the door. On my way back, I will return the favor."
You can then tell him your wishes and offer him some of his favorite things in three (his favorite number). Things he likes are candy, corn, rum, and cigars.
When you place your petition and add the appropriate offerings, you are placing your order with the loa for what you want. You are entering into a magickal contract which requires you to practice co-creating your own reality. This means taking responsibility for the things you can change in your life and taking advantage of opportunities that come your way to help manifest your desire.
Use in Image Magick
Among the slave population in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries, image magick using dolls was commonplace. Image magick is a type of magick based on the concept of like attracts like. To use your Voodoo doll as the image of a particular person, insert some personal effects from the person into the doll, such as a piece of clothing, hair, or fingernail clippings. Alternately, you can attach a photograph of the person to the doll. Then use the doll in
one of these spells.
Using the
"ABCs Of Lucky Mojo" -- Appropriate Offerings, Belief, and Co-Creation -- in your Voodoo doll magick is an incredibly effective way to add power and "oomph!" to your spells. Yes, it require vision, intention, and discipline, but it can make make a huge impact on your results.
What Voodoo will you do with your Voodoo doll today? 
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The Voodoo
Doll Spellbook: A
Compendium of Ancient and Contemporary Spells &
Rituals
by Denise Alvarado
If you should wake up in
the morning and find a little black coffin on your front porch, what
would you do? Would you open it? What if you opened it and found a doll
inside that had your photo attached to it?
Commissioner Denizac did. "These
are faceless cowards, people with small minds, trying to deviate me from
the job I was appointed to do," Denizac said on the news. "I'm not
afraid. I'm still going to speak my mind. Nothing is going to shut me
up."2
Still, the doll was considered a threat to
the safety and wellbeing of the Commissioner by authorities, prompting
beefed up security and a full-blown investigation. No one believes in
this Voodoo stuff, though, despite the fact that folks looked over their
shoulders for a few serpents and rainbows for weeks following the
incident.
Seemingly more than ever, there is a
pervasive fascination with the subject of ghosts and the paranormal,
haunted and cursed dolls, and things that go “bump in the night”. This
fascination is generally attributed to Hollywood’s fusion of folklore
with science fiction and the presentation of such images on the big
screen. No where is this more evident than with the prevailing public
icon of the Voodoo religion – the Voodoo doll. The image of the pin
stuck doll is so embedded in the collective psyche of the general public
that the thought of using a Voodoo doll any differently seemingly defies
all logic.
Hollywood and the media are not the only
ones to blame for the prevailing attitude, however. They simply took a
longstanding stereotype and ran with it. In fact, the presentation of
the evil Voodoo doll began with the enslavement of African people and
subsequent attempts to dehumanize them. Part of the process of
dehumanization included demonizing their religions.
This book is meant to be a celebration of
the ancient art of doll magick. It is true that dolls are used now, as
they were in the past, in a variety of religious, spiritual and magickal
traditions. Exploring the breadth and depth of these traditions is, in
the very least interesting. At most, it is fascinating. As you read this
book, you will discover that doll magick goes far beyond sticking pins
in them for revenge. For centuries, cultures across the globe have used
the ancient techniques of image magick, contagious magick, and
sympathetic magick in combination with a doll or effigy to control all
aspects of life.
The great and powerful
Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau, often engaged in psychological
warfare.
She would frequently create little dolls and place them on the doorsteps
of enemies, or use them to win court cases, or to unite lovers. She had
any number of brilliant methods for gaining the knowledge she needed to
cast effective spells. One ploy was to place surreptitiously a Voodoo
doll near the front door of her victims, more often than not the
house-servants of well-known New Orleans families. When the Voodoo doll
was discovered, the victim was convinced they had been hexed by someone
other than Marie, and would run to the Bosswoman (as Marie was known by
the locals) for help. Marie would agree to render the doll harmless if
the victim agreed to act as her spy and provide her with information
about the affairs of the prominent family where the victim worked. Now
that is one hell of a magickal manipulation!
From the author of
Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual, Alvarado’s collection of spells and
folklore captures perfectly the drama and mystery of humankind’s
relationship with magickal dolls throughout history. With contributions
by Doktor Snake, Sharon Marino, and Carolina Dean, the triumphs and
hardships of daily life are in the rituals, words, and formulas, set
against the spiritual backdrop of ancient Greece, Malay, Mexico, Africa,
Europe, the Deep South and New Orleans. Whether you are a practitioner
of the occult or simply a lover of folklore, you will find this book
provocative, alluring, informative and entertaining.
How would you like to
open Marie Laveau's trick bag of Voodoo Doll spells? The Great and
Powerful Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau, was known to create
little dolls and place them on the doorsteps of enemies, or use them to
win court cases, or to unite lovers. She had a veritable goldmine of
brilliant methods for gaining the knowledge she needed for her spells to
be effective. One ploy was to surreptitiously place a Voodoo doll near
the front door of her victims, more often than not the house-servants of
well-known New Orleans families. When the Voodoo doll was discovered,
the victim was convinced they had been hexed by someone other than
Marie, and would run to Mam'zelle for help. Marie would render the doll
harmless if the victim agreed to act as her spy and provide her with
information about the affairs of the prominent family where the victim
worked. Now that is one hell of a magickal manipulation!
Doktor Snake, author of
the cult classic the Voodoo Spellbook, tells how to make money with a
Voodoo doll and how to protect yourself with a Voodoo doll.
Sharon
Marino, the Voodoo Domme of hoodoo, tell how to make a fith fath for
domination and binding and how to make a couple of mud dollies inspired
by Native American traditions. Finally, pagan author
Carolina Dean
provides a nifty spell for tripping up a thief.
Inside this book you
will find countless secret spells that help you to bind your enemies,
banish naysayers, bend people to do your will, and win court cases. For
the first time anywhere, you will learn the secret for how to make a Get
Even Gris Gris Doll to even the score. Learn how to break up a couple,
destroy all of your problems, get a job, cure sickness, call forth
spirits, win in games of chance and attain success. Inside, you will
find spells to make yourself irresistible, find a lover, make your lover
faithful, and spice up your sex life. And that is just the tip of the
iceberg.
How would you like to
know how to make your wishes come true? Or find true love? Catch a
thief? Keep your dog or cat from wandering off? Break a curse? Or drive
someone crazy?
Many of the spells in
this book are based on ancient recipes and rituals that are found in the
anthropological literature and archeological records, such as spells
from ancient Egypt, Chaldea, Greece, Africa, and Europe. Other spells
are based on spells found in ancient sacred texts, and many are from the
grimoires of the author herself, shared for the first time in the Voodoo
Doll Spellbook. A logical follow up to the author’s previous work,
Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual, the Voodoo Doll Spellbook picks up
where the former leaves off, providing you with information never before
revealed for improving any area of your life using one of the oldest
tools of humankind - the Voodoo doll.
Available
on Amazon.com
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