Voodoo dolls originated in African cultures as a spiritual tradition. Today, they are well-known in New Orleans Voodoo and Haitian Voodoo. Despite the common belief that voodoo dolls are used for negative purposes, they can also be employed for good: to influence your life or the lives of others. They can attract love, health, protection, success, and many other things. The doll represents the person who wishes to connect with the Voodoo spirits, and some dolls are used solely to draw positive changes into one's life.
How to Make a Voodoo Doll for Another Person
Step 1. Visualize the person for whom you are making the doll.
Visualize the person for whom you are making the doll. When creating a Voodoo doll, it is essential to embody the person you are directing Voodoo magic towards, as well as the impact on their life. Since Voodoo magic relies heavily on your connection to the spirit world, it’s vital that the doll symbolizes the individual whose life you wish to alter.
Step 2. Create the Voodoo doll.
Make a Voodoo doll that represents the person. One way to identify the doll with the individual is to print a full-sized photograph of them and sew it onto the fabric. Once you've found and printed the image, cut it out in the silhouette of the person in the picture and sew it onto the back of the doll. As you begin to attach the photograph, be sure to fill the doll with contents.
Step 3. Create the Voodoo doll with personal items of the person.
Create the Voodoo doll using personal items of the individual. If you don’t have a photograph of the person you want to embody in the doll, you can use an item that belongs to them. For example, a piece of clothing or a strand of hair can work. Find some yarn, thread, or fabric and sew the doll. Once the doll is complete, sew in this personal item.
Step 4. "Cleanse" the Voodoo doll.
"Cleanse" the Voodoo doll. Before using the Voodoo doll for magical purposes, it must be "cleansed" of previous energies, creating a sort of "blank canvas" for your intentions. To do this, place your hand on the doll and direct your energy through it, focusing on "cleansing" it of foreign energies. You can wash the doll in salty water and incense it with herbs (such as sage or sandalwood extract), then leave it in natural light (under sunlight or moonlight) so that the Universe and Mother Nature can take care of the doll and transform any unclean energy.
- It’s likely that the materials used to create your Voodoo doll already carry some foreign energy. Be sure to "cleanse" the doll so that this energy doesn’t interfere with your intentions.
- To simplify this process, you can use materials or items that have been in contact with other people, unless you specifically intend to use that item to identify the doll with that particular person.
How to Use a Voodoo Doll for Good Purposes
Step 1. Focus on your desires.
Focus on your desires. One of the purposes of a Voodoo doll is meditation and concentration. Hold the Voodoo doll and concentrate on the desired changes you wish to bring into your life. You can buy Voodoo dolls online; there are special dolls that symbolize fertility, marriage, luck, prosperity, and so on. Some represent spiritual power.
- This process requires patience and focus; you need to clear your mind of distracting thoughts. This is why this process is called meditation, as it calms the mind and soul to achieve harmony with yourself and your desires.
- You can improve not only your life but also the lives of others. If you want to attract luck into someone else's life, do the same, but the doll must represent that person. Focus on what you wish for them.
Step 2. You need colored pins.
You'll need colored pins. Traditionally, seven colored pins are used in this ritual, each corresponding to a specific area of life you want to influence. This technique works hand in hand with the meditation method. First, you need to meditate and focus, and then use the pins. After you've decided which aspect of life you want to affect, insert a pin of the corresponding color into your Voodoo doll. The head is associated with knowledge and wisdom, the heart with emotions, and the stomach with feelings and intuition. So if you wish to gain power (or help someone else gain it), insert a red pin into the doll's head. If you want to attract love, insert a blue pin into the doll's heart. Here are the colors and what they symbolize:
- Yellow: success;
- Green: money;
- White: health;
- Red: power;
- Purple: spirituality;
- Blue: love;
- Black: removal of negative energy.
Step 3. Call upon the Voodoo spirits.
Call upon the Voodoo spirits. Loa, twins, and spirits of the deceased are spiritual forces of Voodoo that can help you attract various changes into your life. To summon the spirits, you need to make or buy a Voodoo doll. You should focus on your desires that you want to manifest through the spirits, then light a candle of the appropriate color and offer a sacrifice to the spirit. It may be better to create a second identical Voodoo doll to light a candle on and make the offering to the spirits.
- The Loa interacts with people and embodies the spirits representing the primary forces of the Universe: good, evil, reproduction, health, and other aspects of our lives. There are many different Loa spirits, making it difficult to list them all, but with some thought, you can choose the Loa to whom you wish to reach out for help.
- The twins embody a mysterious set of contradictory forces: happiness and sadness, good and evil, and so on. If given their due, they can help improve some aspect of your life.
- The spirits of the deceased are the spirits of family members, that is, the souls of the deceased whose loved ones have not yet "let go" of them. Ignoring the dead can be dangerous, but if cared for and respected, they can assist.
How to Use a Voodoo Doll for Malicious Purposes
Step 1. You will also need colored pins for this purpose.
You will also need colored pins for this purpose. Colored pins can be used for both positive and negative influence on someone's life. For example, if you want to dominate someone, insert a red pin into the doll's head and focus on power and strength.
Step 2. Call upon the spirit you wish to summon.
Call upon the spirit you wish to summon. You need a Voodoo doll that embodies the spirit you want to summon. Create another identical doll and focus on the person you wish to harm, asking the spirit to act on your behalf. Just as described above, light a candle that corresponds to that spirit, and it may be wise to offer them a sacrifice.
Step 3. Focus on classic methods of punishment.
Focus on classic methods of punishment. If you want to harm someone using a Voodoo doll that represents that person, you can use regular pins or needles, rope, wire, water, or other means of punishment and torture. Then concentrate on that person and the actions you are taking.
- Ensure that you have cleansed the doll of foreign energy. If the doll is somehow connected to someone else, the Voodoo magic could harm them too, and you don’t want an innocent person to suffer!
- Many practitioners of Voodoo magic advise using Voodoo dolls only to attract positive changes, as the saying goes, "what goes around comes around."
