| Do you want to know how to do Voodoo? So do a | | | | layouts, and other objects as simulacra. You can also |
| lot people, and most of them particularly want to know | | | | use chess pieces or objects made of stone, ceramic, |
| how to use Voodoo dolls. The use of Voodoo dolls | | | | wood or glass. If you use wood be sure it is fairly |
| has become well-known in popular culture mostly | | | | dense otherwise it will not easily key. Plastic and |
| through movies, books, and television. Voodoo has also | | | | rubber do not key well so don't use them. According to |
| been portrayed as a dark, mysterious, and often | | | | the Law of Similarity, the greater the likeness between |
| morbid tradition. In actuality, Voodoo is simply a West | | | | a simulacrum and that to which the simulacrum is |
| African religion, which is also known by similar names | | | | keyed, the greater the psychic connection will be. |
| like Vodun, Vodoun, Vodou, Vudu, and Voudou. | | | | Photographs and pictures have a great likeness to the |
| Voodoo practices include much more than the use of | | | | original subjects and they already access the original |
| dolls, and involve circle rituals, dancing, singing, drumming, | | | | subjects. So now you know a little more about how to |
| and ancestor worship. | | | | do Voodoo, or at least the principles of how Voodoo |
| A Little About Voodoo Dolls | | | | dolls work. |
| But let's focus for a moment on Voodoo dolls. If you | | | | Handle Voodoo Dolls with Care |
| want to know how to do Voodoo you have to know | | | | Of course, be very careful about keying simulacra. If |
| something about the use of the Voodoo doll. A | | | | the connection between the simulacra and person is |
| Voodoo doll, in more normal magical terms, is a | | | | very strong, anything that happens to the object |
| simulacrum. A simulacrum is an object that is a likeness | | | | happens to the person. If something accidental |
| of something. In magical operations, if you want to | | | | happens to the simulacra and also happens to the |
| affect a person without direct action, you could | | | | person, according the Rules of the Road (the laws that |
| choose an object that resembles the person (like a | | | | govern magical practice) the Universe will hold you |
| small figurine) and make a psychic connection | | | | responsible. You really don't want that kind of karma |
| between the object and the person. To make this | | | | on your hands. For instance, once a practitioner keyed |
| psychic connection, also called "keying," you just hold | | | | a figurine to a person and then left the figurine on a |
| the object in your dominant hand and think of the | | | | table. While the practitioner was out of the house, his |
| person. Flow thoughts and energy about that person | | | | cats began playing with the figurine, batting it about and |
| into the object until the object begins to feel warm or | | | | throwing it in the air. The person to whom the figurine |
| tingly. Now the object is connected to the person and, | | | | was keyed felt horribly nauseous and dizzy until the |
| depending on how strong the connection is, anything | | | | practitioner returned home and rescued the figurine. |
| that happens to the object also happens to the person. | | | | Take this example as a warning if you want to learn |
| For a simulacrum you can use photographs, pictures, | | | | how to do Voodoo. Don't key anything for which you |
| dolls and other small models, lists, symbols, Tarot | | | | don't want to be ultimately and forever responsible! |