Gran Bwa

The Gran Bwa (Big Wood) is the Master of the Sacred Forest of the Island below the Waters, which is the place the loa call home. He is the protector of wild animals and a great medicine man.

Click here to see Gran Bwa's slide show.

Gran Bwa Voodoo doll

The Gran Bwa (Big Wood) is the Master of the Sacred Forest of the Island Below the Waters, which is the place where the loa call home. This is the land to where the newly dead travel. He is the protector of all wild animals, knows the secrets of herbal medicine, and the secrets of magic hidden in the herbs. He is likened to Saint Sebastian and Saint Christopher in the Catholic tradition.

Gran Bois is a very loving loa with a great sense of humor and full of advice. He is apparently proud of the fact that he has a big, stiff penis. Gran Bois can be petitioned for healing and prosperity and general advice.

Details: This Voodoo doll measures just under approximately 6 inches tall. He is crafted out of a piece of bark, a stick and Spanish moss, and adorned with beads. His face is hand sculpted out of polymer clay and painted. He has an evil eye bead in the middle of the bromeliad on his head. He is self-standing and comes signed by the artist for authenticity.

*Please note that the Gran Bwa you receive may differ from the one in the picture. Please view the slide show to see the type of variation you can expect.

Price $34.95

Gran Bwa's Slide Show

Simple Ritual for Gran Bwa

To use a Gran Bwa Voodoo doll, you will begin at your altar. It is advisable to have white and green altar candles and spiritual incense burning at the time of use. Use a red altar cloth for Gran Bois as he is a petro loa, and use a lot of leaves, sticks, herbs, and flowers and things you collect from the forest to adorn his altar. Add strips of green satin and a picture of his veve (symbol). Add your Gran Bois Voodoo doll as a focusing tool for creating the change you seek. Voodoo dolls are particularly useful for improving spiritual connection and protection.

First, ask Papa Legba to open the door so that you may speak to Gran Bois:

Papa Legba, open the door for me

Atibon Legba, open the gate

Open the door for me Papa Legba so that I can pass

When I return, I will thank the loa!

Concentrate on the outcome you wish to occur and ask Gran Bwa for assistance in creating this change. You may write a petition if you wish. Make an offering in a wooden bowl and place the green candle in the bowl. Light the candle and ask Gran Bois for his help. Sing songs for him or dance or do both. Make it a festive time! Let the candle burn down, and when it is done, take the bowl and food and put it in a paper bag. take it deep in the woods and place it beneath a big tree. Tell Gran Bois again what it is you need. Then thank him and thank Papa Legba for opening the door to him.

Some of Gran Bois' favorite things include sweet potatoes, yams, green bananas, black pigs, goats, distilled rum, wild berries, acorns, any type of food from the woods.

Here are a couple of songs for Gran Bois:

M al nan Gran Bwa, al chache fey
Le mwen rive mwen jwen twa zom O!
Al nan Gran Bwa, al chache fey
Le mwen rive mwen jwen twa zom O!
Premye a, yon boutey nwa,
Dezyem nan, yon tet san ko,
Twazyem nan, yon asson nan men!
Se li ke wa, se li kap komande.

I go to Big Woods, go looking for leaves.
When I get there, I find three men, O!
I go to Big Woods, go looking for leaves.
When I get there, I find three men, O!
The first, a black bottle,
The second, a head without a body,
The third, an asson in hand!
It is king, it commands.

II.

Se nan bwa, fey nan bwa ye,
Se nan bwa, fey nan bwa ye,
Se mwen menm Gran Bwa,
M pap montre moun kay mwen,
Si m pral montre moun kay mwen,
Yap di se nan bwa m rete.

It's in the woods, the leaves are,
It's in the woods, the leaves are,
It is I Gran Bwa,
I won't show people my house,
If I go and show people my house,
They will say I live in the woods.

Gran Bois' Veve

Here is an album with songs for Gran Bois: Aibobo

Do you see Gran Bwa in the photos?

The most important concept in Voodoo and many indigenous religions is reverence to ancestors. Always be sure to remember those who have gone on before you. It is the single most important thing you can do to insure success in your spiritual endeavors.