Chapter 2 About Vodou

BLOGPOST 2. Vodou

Vodou. or also known as voodoo, or vodouisants it is a syncretic religion of native american religion. this is primarily found in haiti. and africa. vodou has a ritual that has music and dancing. in voduo rituals they use drums for their music   as they dance to their ancester and prays for there gods or spirits. in vodou  both spirits of nature and even the dead people are important to them. because in voduo  they believe that a spirit of there love ones even their family is in their body and controlling them. they can also make the spirit come to the body of the host and they can speak for god or even to the dead people. they can also help in their village by healing and do some magic ritual.

Vodou is important religion is important religion especially in  Haiti i read this in this article entitled: Dramatic Elements in spiritual possession. Wrote by  Alfred Metraux. in this website: davidmetraux.com  According to Sir Alfred Metraux voodoo is the ancient tradition of there ancestor that derive in spiritual possession and voodoo is also a religion of the people in Dahomey and Nigeria they are also believed in spiritual beings and also spiritual possession.

Vodou dolls.

Voodoo dolls are been known as the spiritual puppet or even a people manipulating doll as we know voodoo dolls in movie  you can manipulate the one you want to manipulate with you can even poke it some pins or can make it suffer and your target will feel it. Well voudou dolls is represented or resemblance to your enemy but. using it to curse with miss fortune pain and even death even thrusting it with pins into the doll. such of those items is not part of that tradition . i read this in this Website: pattimaquirearmstrong.com article titled :Voodoo dolls No Child Play-An Exorcist Weighs In By Patti Armstrong 

"he Stated that Another aspect of Voodoo is its effects on those who are not even connected to it.  It is the practice of not just accessing evil powers to control things, but can involve putting curses on others to manipulate or harm them. Do people need to worry about that?"

Just like he said voodoo dolls is been use by the voodoisant to manipulate one person that they hate or even can harm them by using this kind of witchcraft.  

Vodou Magics can use as well in healing and curing . the people in the tribe use the power of there voudoists and shaman to help them guide them especially in hunting and fighting even healing when they got injured or got wounded they use the power of there voudoist and shaman to help them them cured. or sometimes it called the black magic i read an article. Get out the voodoo dolls: How black magic works by : Rachel  Hillier voodoo magics is a nocebo phenomenon meaning this works if you believe that it will happend scientist from the university of turin medical school in italy they understand about the physical process example if you look on your wound and thinking that it is going to hurt then it will  feel much painful.and if you think you are being poke and its painful well you will going to think that u are being poke and you were going to feel that someone is poking you. so that's the a nocebo effect.. 

and in there believes in there ritual they use there voodoo magics to talk to the bad spirits that may bothering them they said that they can feel when the spirits are mad because the spirit is making a sign that there mad or even sad. vodooist believe that spirits can interact with the nature and can make some calamities thats why they use some animal rituals to made an offering to the spirits.