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Report Claims Angelina Jolie Now StudyingVoodoo in New Orleans | |
| By Brenda Davis Mar 5, 2007 | |
Police are investigating whether an apparent voodoo shrine found 200 yards from the bodies of a missing couple has anything to
do with their deaths. Click the link below for the full story.
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I realize this story is dated, but the picture that goes along with it is priceless...
Man seeks to jinx Bush visit with magic
Source: Tapei Times http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/11/17/2003336694
AP, BOGOR, INDONESIA
Friday, Nov 17, 2006, Page 5
An Indonesian man claiming magic powers drank freshly slaughtered animal and snake blood yesterday as part of a ritual he said would jinx the upcoming visit of US President George W. Bush.
Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, mixed their blood with herbs before drinking the potion and smearing it on his face.
"I don't hate Americans, but I don't like Bush," said Pamungkas, adding he believed the ritual would succeed because ``the devil is with me today.''
Bush is scheduled to visit the world's most populous Muslim nation for several hours on Monday for talks with the Indonesian president and civic leaders at a palace in the hill town of Bogor.
Bush is unpopular in Indonesia because of the US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Muslim and nationalist groups are calling on the government to cancel the trip.
Pamungkas said he believed the ritual -- performed around 1km from the palace -- would cause Secret Service personnel guarding Bush to fall into a trance and believe the US leader was under attack, causing chaos. Sorcery is banned under Islam, but many Indonesians still believe in the practice, which predates Islam's arrival in the archipelago.
Picture: Ki Gendeng Pamungkas drinks sheep's blood during a rally against President George W. Bush at thepresidential palace, Bogor, Indonesia.
Psychologists at Princeton and Harvard have conducted experiments showing that people sometimes claim magical powers — personal
responsibility for events they couldn't possibly have controlled. For instance, people who have evil thoughts about someone feel responsible
when their enemy falls ill, and people who cheer for their favorite team feel responsible when their team wins.
While most people would report believing that thoughts alone cannot cause external events, in these experiments people claimed responsibility
for events that they had only willed to occur. For example, one experiment gauged whether people thought they had harmed another person
when they stuck pins in a voodoo doll named after that person. Subjects in the experiment did believe in the power of their voodoo hexes, but
only if they had first generated evil thoughts about their victim.
The researchers have written an article about the experiments, titled "Everyday Magical Powers: The Role of Apparent Mental Causation in
the Overestimation of Personal Influence," which will appear in the forthcoming Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and was
co-authored by Emily Pronin, Assistant Professor of Pychology and Public Affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, Sylvia
Rodriguez '06, and Daniel Wegner and Kimberly McCarthy of Harvard University. The experiments reveal erroneous magical thinking
even among ordinary people.
For the voodoo experiment, subjects were led to think evil thoughts about another person who they believed was also a subject in the
experiment (but who actually worked for the researchers). In a control condition, they were not led to think such thoughts. Each subject
then stuck pins in a voodoo doll representing the alleged victim, who was seated at the table across from them. When the "victim" then
faked having a headache, those who had harbored evil thoughts were more likely than their peers in a control condition to believe they had
caused it.
In addition to experiments with voodoo hexes, the researchers also studied fans watching sports. In one study, subjects watched as a
basketball player shot baskets. Spectators were more likely to perceive that they had caused his success if they had first been asked to
visualize his success ("Imagine the ball falling through the hoop"). In another experiment conducted at a live basketball game (Princeton vs.
Harvard), some spectators were given a task before the start of the game to think about it by reviewing the potential of the starting players.
Other audience members were not given this assignment. At halftime, those who had thought about the players' performance reported
personally having had more of an impact on the game than those in the control condition. In another study, people watching the NFL Super
Bowl on television felt more responsible for that game's outcome the more they thought about the game while watching.
This belief in magical powers may explain why individuals sometimes feel it is so important to "support our team." Just by rooting, people
feel they can help their team win, even if they just jump up and down in front of a television, for example. Individuals' beliefs in magical
powers might also explain why, if a person has to step away from a television during an important game, they would rather not have
someone who will cheer for the other team stay and watch in their absence.
The researchers found that people subscribe to magical beliefs despite the fact that these beliefs defy any rational scientific analysis. The
feeling of mental power arises because people perceive an association between their thoughts about an external event and the occurrence
of that event.
Pronin and her co-authors noted, "This research suggests that magical beliefs are commonplace and that a bit of magical thinking appears
even in ordinary people and circumstances."
Voodoo doll latest weapon to topple Taiwan president
Source: The Raw Story http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Voodoo_doll_latest_weapon_to_topple_09092006.html
Deutsche Presse Agentur
Published: Saturday September 9, 2006
Taipei- Opponents of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian have found a new weapon to try to bring about his downfall - voodoo dolls, a newspaper reported Sunday. Since opposition parties launched the campaign to oust Chen over alleged corruption scandals four months ago, they have tried all manner of gambits to pressure and shame him into resigning.
The opposition has tried articles, slogans, rhymes, jokes, anti- Chen T-shirts, balloons, rallies and sit-ins, but Chen has refused to step down.
Now, a couple named Lin has created Chen Shui-bian voodoo dolls, which are selling like hot cakes, the United Daily News (UDN) said.
"We hit upon the idea because we found all the anti-Chen commodities were not cute, so we began to make Chen Shui-bian voodoo doll with hemp thread," Mr Lin said.
On Saturday, the first day of offering the dolls for sale, the couple took 7,000 Chen Shui-bian voodoo dolls to an anti-Chen mass rally, and the voodoo dolls were snapped up within a few hours.
Each doll sells for 180 Taiwan dollars (6 US dollars).
Voodoo dolls originated in Africa and the Caribbean, growing out of the practise of traditional religions. Believers with a grudge against someone will write the name of their enemy on a voodoo doll, poke it with needles and place a curse on the doll.
© 2006 DPA - Deutsche Presse-Agenteur
2006 Art Installations for Burning Man
Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. I have been looking for a picture of this exhibit but am unable to locate one.
VooDoo Baptismus
by Bobbie Pires
Voodoo Baptismus is a participatory lifesize Voodoo doll of George W. Bush. A white cotton devil is housed in a simple wooden structure, well-stocked with appropriate voodoo implements. The doll will become progressively bristled and tethered as participants alter the piece.
Contact: bobbie (at) holonet (dot) net
JUNE 30--Jennifer Lopez's first husband has agreed to an injunction barring him from publishing a tell-all book about their brief marriage and the couple's sex life. The order, signed yesterday by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, was sought by Lopez, who contends that Ojani Noa, whom she married in February 1997, is prohibited from discussing her private affairs by the terms of a 2005 legal agreement. That settlement bars Noa from disclosing "for monetary gain any private or intimate details about either Jennifer Lopez or his relationship with Ms. Lopez." But after signing the agreement and receiving $150,000, Lopez charges, Noa tried to peddle stories about her to tabloids, has circulated a book proposal about their time together, and sought an extra $5 million in hush money. During a June 5 deposition, Noa, who was married to Lopez for about 11 months, gave an indication of the kind of material Lopez does not want published. Responding to a question from the actress's attorney, Noa (who remained friendly with his ex following their split) testified that Lopez "was doing voodoo when we weren't married. She was doing bad things to a lot of people when we were friends. And I knew all this time, because we did personally, me and her, to this particular lady." Noa added that Lopez did voodoo and "all this religious bullshit" to former lovers, including Sean "Puffy" Combs. The purported voodoo practices apparently stem from Lopez's religious devotion and the influence over her by a "Madrina," which is often described as a spiritual mentor for Santeria practitioners. Asked in a June 1 deposition why he thought he could keep selling stories about Lopez despite signing the six-figure settlement agreement, Noa said, "I mean, I live a free country. No? I can express myself. I can talk and say whatever I want to. No?"
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0630061jlo1.html
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