Researchers like standard methods to measure even the most untamed variables, like aggression. They need to compare results across different studies. The best bet for aggression research, a team of researchers reported last year , is the Voodoo Doll Task. As in the blood sugar study, people are given a doll that represents a specific person: either someone they know or someone who has provoked them in some way.
Sometimes the doll might be virtual, and whether real or on a computer screen, participants are told they can stab the doll with as many real or virtual pins as they want. Before the Voodoo Doll Task, researchers had cooked up various other aggressive acts for people to launch at one another in a laboratory setting. Among these was the Hot Sauce Paradigm.
The more hot sauce they hose down the food with, the more aggressive they are deemed to feel. The test worked pretty well. But today the Hot Sauce Paradigm, like so many paradigms, has somewhat fallen by the wayside. Ah, but voodoo dolls. While the colored pins can be used on a voodoo doll of yourself or someone else for good, some can also be used for evil.
For example, if you wish to exert power over an individual, use the red pin, focus on the power you want the individual to submit to, and prick the voodoo doll of the individual in the head. Appeal to a spirit to act on your behalf.
Using the voodoo doll that represents the spirit you wish to call upon, create an alter for your doll, focus on the person you wish to harm or cause misfortune to, and petition the spirit to act on your behalf.
In the same way as you would petition a spirit for yourself, light a candle that corresponds to the spirit and possibly offer a sacrifice. Revert to classic torture techniques. If you wish to invoke harm upon someone through a voodoo doll representing them, you can use regular pins or needles, rope, wire, water, or any sort of torture device you wish. Then, following the focusing technique, concentrate on the person you wish to harm and the actions you are carrying out.
Make sure you clear the doll of all previous energies. If the doll is in any way associated with someone else, they may experience the harm as well and you wouldn't want that! Most experienced practitioners of Voodoo suggest only to use your doll for good, because as the saying goes "what goes around comes around. If I want to create a voodoo doll for myself to improve my life, is it proper to use locks of my own hair and pieces of my own clothing? Yes, but to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, keep yours in a locked box and only use it in private.
Not Helpful 16 Helpful Check on the person daily and look for signs correlating to what pins you used, if you used any pins. For example, if you used a blue pin, check if the person has any news from their love life.
Not Helpful 13 Helpful A person can have however many voodoo dolls he or she wants. The amount of voodoo dolls one has will have no effect on the magic. Not Helpful 26 Helpful Not Helpful 20 Helpful You should only limit yourself to one or two colors at any one time, or you'll risk offending the vassal. Not Helpful 30 Helpful How do I use a Voodoo doll to extract slow and painful revenge on someone who has done me harm? Not Helpful 33 Helpful You can use a few of their hairs, pencils or anything they have used or touched.
Not Helpful 18 Helpful People use voodoo dolls for different reasons but mostly a voodoo doll can be used for good in your own life or in the lives of others: for love, healing, protection, success and many other things. The doll is often a representation of the person who desires to appeal to the Voodoo spirits. It may be a faith object or a source of empowerment.
Not Helpful 28 Helpful Not Helpful 14 Helpful Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. The voodoo doll is used to represent the spirit of a specific person. You can address the voodoo doll as if you are talking to that person, requesting a change in attitude and influencing the person to act in accordance with your wishes and your desires.
Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. The head is of black cloth or wood, and it often has rudimentary facial features: eyes, nose, and a mouth. They are often decorated with feathers and sequins, and they come with a pin or a dagger, and instructions on how to use it. These Voodoo dolls are strictly made for the tourist market in places like New Orleans or the Caribbean, where they are sold as inexpensive mementos in tourist shops, in open-air markets, and thrown during parades.
They are not used by actual Vodou practitioners. Human effigies such as the Voodoo dolls—both the authentic ones and the ones sold in shops—are examples of figurines, representations of humans that are characteristic of many different cultures, beginning with the Upper Paleolithic so-called "Venus figurines.
There are many ideas about their purposes, none of which include revenge. The oldest examples of figurines that were made specifically to harm or affect another individual date to Assyrian rituals from the first millennium BCE, such as Bronze age Akkadian texts 8th-6th centuries BCE , a tradition also practiced in Greco-Roman Egypt of the first and second centuries CE.
In Egypt, dolls were made and then a binding curse was performed, sometimes accomplished by poking pins in them. One Mesopotamian inscription from the 7th century BCE reveals one king cursing another:. The idea of evil Voodoo dolls as seen in Hollywood horror films may be much younger, from the s when thousands of "cashew dolls" were imported to the United States from Haiti. These were made of cashew shells, and had eyes made of the jequirity bean, a form of castor bean which when swallowed by young children can cause serious injury or death.
The U. People who practice the Vodou religion in Haiti do use dolls as part of a tradition brought with them from West Africa , incorporating small effigies known as a fetish or bocio for rituals. When these people were forced to the new world as slaves, they brought their doll tradition with them.
Some of the Africans then merged their traditional tribal religion with Roman Catholicism and the Vodou religion came to be. The rituals in West Africa or in Haiti or New Orleans involving dolls, however, have nothing to do with inflicting harm on individuals, deserving or not. Instead, they are meant to heal. Voodoo Dolls Voodoo Dolls are a type of sympathetic magic that uses a doll in the image of an intended victim to place a curse , usually in the form of sticking needles into the doll to cause pain to the victim : despite its name the practice is more in line with Hoodoo, which is often confused with Voodoo due to sharing similar origins and beliefs.
In the film Lisztomania , a voodoo doll resembling Franz Liszt is used. In the supernatural slasher movie Child's Play , the serial killer Charles Lee Ray Chucky used a voodoo doll resembling his former Voodoo instructor John Aelsop Bishop also known as Doctor Death and brutally utilized the man's "personal mojo" against him after he refuses to help due to Chucky as an abominable outrage against nature for evil deeds and his murderous abuse of voodoo magic.
A voodoo doll had also been included in the animated Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. A voodoo doll as seen in Child's Play.
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