The Mystic Voodoo
Where Art, Psychology, and Mythology Collide
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The Mystic Voodoo Where Art, Psychology, and Mythology Collide
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Black Cat Charm Dolls Voodoo Poppet Familiars These black cat charm doll Voodoo poppets come to you blessed and ready to hear your requests for love, luck, money, happiness, or whatever you need. Use your charm doll as a focusing tool for creating the change you seek. Charm dolls are particularly useful for improving luck, happiness, financial situations, and spiritual protection. ORDERS MAY BE PLACED 24 HOURS A DAY – 7 DAYS A WEEK. We offer a secure online shopping environment for your convenience and protection. Please allow 3 to 4 weeks for the creation and delivery of your item. See our ordering information page for more details.
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Black Cat Charm Dolls
In Western history, black cats have often been looked upon as a symbol of evil omens: in other cultures, they are considered to be good omens. In New Orleans Voodoo, black cats have been the subject of controversial sacrifice in the past, particularly with regards to finding the one bone in the body that is all powerful. The abuse of black cats for sacrificial and ritual reasons is no longer practiced nor encouraged in New Orleans. On the contrary, they are viewed as good luck in hoodoo, particularly regarding gambling matters, such as playing cards or the lottery. These black cat Voodoo poppets are loaded with charms, beads, buttons, and what-nots to bring you the best of luck in all of your endeavors! They are stuffed with aromatic, magickal herbs to bring you the best of luck and happiness. Each cat comes with catnip to use as an offering, 7 removable whisker pins, and instructions for use as a focusing tool in meditation. Click here for more pictures. $34.95
The Black Cat in Folklore
Théophile Steinlen's advertisement for the tour of the Chat Noir cabaret Historically, black cats were symbolically associated with witchcraft and evil. In Hebrew and Babylonian folklore, cats are compared to serpents, coiled on a hearth. Black cats, because of their ability to remain unseen in dark places or at night, were considered especially desirable partners for witches in European traditions. Some witches purportedly had the ability to shape-shift into a cat nine times, hence the archaic belief that cats have "nine lives". Black cats were sometimes used in magical rituals, sometimes as participants, other times as sacrifices. In witch trials, ownership of a cat was often taken as "evidence" of Satanic association and witchcraft. Cats, believed to be evil in their own right, were often punished or burned alive along with humans during these trials (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat). Both historically and today, some religious and spiritual groups engage in ritualistic sacrifice of cats, though studies have mainly found that such reports belong squarely in the province of urban legend. Many modern witches keep black cats as pets, and view them as sacred (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_cat). In the African American hoodoo tradition, black cats are considered to be good luck in matters of sports and gambling, particularly with card games and playing the lottery. The Black Cat mojo bag is filled with a number of luck-bringing roots and herbs, including John the Conqueror root, and adorned with a small black cat charm on the outside and carried on the person for good luck. Fortunately, the archaic associations of black cats with bad luck or evil that once flourished in North American popular culture are no longer widely held. It is said that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck, but letting one in your house is good luck. The Black Cat Bone Spell Probably the most disturbing practice involving the black cat is that of the Black Cat Bone Spell. Although it is European in origin, it is commonly associated with hoodoo and Voodoo. Supposedly, every black cat has one special bone in its body that will either grant the owner invisibility or can be used to bring back a lost lover (http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html). There are several ways in which the special black cat bone can be procured. Here is a version from the Book of Saint Cyprian, the patron saint of the occult: "Cook the body of a black cat in boiling water with white seeds and wood from the willow until the meat is loosened from the bones. Strain the bones in a linen cloth and, in front of the mirror, place the bones, one by one in your mouth, until you find that you have the magic to make you become invisible. Keep the bone with the magic property and, if you want to go somewhere without being seen, place the bone in your mouth."http://www.portcult.com/SAINT_CYPRIAN.05.MAGIC.SPELLS.htm According to accounts by Nora Zeale Hurston and Harry Middleton Hyatt, both of whom studied hoodoo extensively, this is how the bone is procured (as cited by Cat Yronwode http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html) "To secure this bone, they said, a black cat must be thrown alive into a cauldron of boiling water at midnight. The animal dies in agony, and the heartless practitioner boils the carcass until the meat falls off the bones. Some say that the special bone will be the top one left when the water boils away, others say it can only be found by placing each bone in turn beneath the tongue while an assistant stands by to notify the practitioner that he has become invisible, and still others swear that if all the bones are thrown into a stream that runs north (uncommon in most of North America), the desired bone will be one that floats on the water and heads south. ("http://www.luckymojo.com/blackcat.html) Once the bone is obtained, it is carried in a mojo bag and dressed with Van Van oil to bring back a lost lover.
 This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. The oldest written sources on the Yule Cat are from the Nineteenth Century. These refer to the fact that those who do not get a new item of clothing for Yule are destined to become offerings for the Yule Cat. It may sound strange that the deprived ones will also become the sacrifices, but this tradition is based on the fact that every effort was made to finish all work with the Autumn wool before Yule. The reward for those who took part in the work was a new piece of clothing. Those who were lazy received nothing. Thus the Yule Cat was used as an incentive to get people to work harder. A woman describes a scene from her youth in the last century thus: "We were lazy doing this chore. Then we were reminded of the Yule Cat. We thought that was some terrible beast and the last thing we wanted was to be one of his offers". One of Iceland's most beloved poets in this century, Jóhannes úr Kötlum, wrote a lay about the Yule Cat. It follows in the translation of Vignir Jónsson, who says: "You'll have to forgive me but I didn't make it rhyme - I'm not much of a poet." You all know the Yule Cat He opened his glaring eyes wide, His whiskers, sharp as bristles, He gave a wave of his strong tail, He roamed at large, hungry and evil If one heard a pitiful "meow" He picked on the very poor From them he took in one fell swoop Hence it was that the women Because you mustn't let the Cat And when the lights came on, on Yule Eve Some had gotten an apron For all who got something new to wear Whether he still exists I do not know. Now you might be thinking of helping Perhaps searching for those http://www.simnet.is/gardarj/yule11.htm
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