Voodoo Doll Patterns

"Where you believe there is magick, you will find it."

Below are a couple of patterns for conjure doll babies. Click on the links to print them out and make your own voodoo dolls and conjure dolls! Find basic directions below the patterns.

BASIC DIRECTIONS

There are a multitude of ways to make a voodoo doll, conjure doll baby, or poppet. You can literally make it out of any material you want; you are limited only by your imagination and intention. For example, a general purpose doll can be made out of leather, muslin or felt, or a beautiful fabric that you love and makes you feel good. Cut out your pattern on paper first, then lay the paper pattern on top of your fabric and pin in place. Then cut the fabric using the pattern as a guideline. Stitch the dolls up the sides leaving a space open for stuffing. You may turn the doll inside out for a more finished look, or leave it the way it is for a more primitive look. Use batting, herbs, or moss to stuff your doll baby, stitch up the head and viola! you have your very own handmade Voodoo doll!

For more detailed instructions, read the article How to Make a Voodoo Doll.

Read the excerpt from the Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook below about color symbolism to learn what color is the best to use for making your voodoo doll, conjure doll baby, or poppet.

COLOR SYMBOLISM

One of the basic areas of knowledge necessary for conducting effective Voodoo hoodoo rituals is understanding the color symbolism. Practitioners must choose the correct colors when purchasing candles, making mojo bags and oils, creating altars, performing ritual bathing, and otherwise pleasing the loas, orishas, saints, and numerous divine entities. This is necessary for what is referred to as “working the rainbow” in New Orleans Voodoo. For a more in-depth discussion about working the rainbow, I highly recommend Luisah Teish’s book, Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals.

Here is a breakdown of the basic colors used in New Orleans Voodoo hoodoo rituals and rootwork and what they mean.

White. White is associated with subtle energies and is used for devotions in remembering, contacting departed souls, and for blessings, purity, healing, and cleansing.

Red. The color red represents love, passion, romance, affection, energy, lust, fertility, attention, libido, victory, and sexuality. Red candles are used in love spells and charms, fertility spells, sex magic, and seduction.

Purple. Works using the color purple are typically concerned with power, psychic ability, commanding, compelling, controlling, mastery, ambition, prophetic dreams, or bending others to one’s will. Purple may also be used for peace, protection, and abundance purposes.

Green. The color green is associated with money spells, wealth and prosperity spells, gambling luck, general good luck, fertility, bountiful gardens, and business success. When you want to influence anything to do with money and prosperity, you will use the color green.

Black. The color black can be used to remove evil or send harm. For example, black is used to repel negativity, for protection, or to banish negative people from your life. Another way of using the color black is in inflicting harm or destruction on another. Binding spells, hexes and jinxes, curses, enemy tricks, coercive magic, and summoning dark spirits will often be associated with the color black. Black can also be used in grieving rituals.

Yellow. The color yellow is associated with mental agility and clarity, communication, fast action, success, happiness, money (gold), court cases, and excelling at school or in an academic setting.

Pink. The color pink is used to draw love, success, friendships, romance, and attraction.

Blue. For health, peace, harmony and abundance. Blue is associated with Marie Laveau and St. Joseph in New Orleans, and also with séances and love spells when harmony and peace in a love relationship are desired.

Brown. The color brown is associated with practical and material blessings, court cases, and neutrality.

Orange. This color is associated with recognition, control, changing plans, and creativity. It is also linked to strong or gentle energies, and can be coercive or subtly suggestive.

Red and black (double action). These colors in conjunction are used to remove a love jinx or obstacles and to open the path for opportunities.

White and black (double action). These colors in conjunction are used to remove negative energies and draw positivity and blessings, and to reverse a curse by sending evil intentions back to the sender.

Green and black (double action). Together these colors are used to remove money jinxes, to eliminate debt, and to draw money, wealth, and abundance. Can also be used to reverse infertility and to bring new growth during a drought.

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Voodoo Dolls in Magick and Ritual

by Denise Alvarado

Customer reviews

I hope complete idiot's do not buy this book because then they will become very dangerous idiot's. Excellent book one of a kind, and on it's own is a complete occult system. Southern Voodoo Dolls remain a living art and powerful medium. You get all the 'bang for you buck' with this buy.

N. Devine

Voodoo hoodoo! When one thinks of this title, your mind goes back to the drums and snakes of the New Orleans traditional. This was a new research subject for general knowledge. Little was published regarding Zombies, ritual magic using symbolic dolls. This book, in my opinion reaches into the history of the doll. In reading this it opened up yet another phase of magic, suggestional magic and the colorful history of New Orleans traditions. Good for information and the building of your own little doll.

B. Rackley "Sierras Creative World"