Voodoo Again ;)?

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Dear Yahoo Answers Users!
I want to know if there is any real practical material about voodoo to study or can someone help me out in learning that. For those who say its not real, at least I believe in this.
Please if someone knows real material about this, can share the links.
Thanks in advance...

And yes, in addition to the links, your valuable comments too are always welcome ;)

Answer 1

I am a practicing voodooist, and I also use hoodooism in my works as well.

Good starting point for hoodoo - www.luckymojo.com
For voodoo, I highly recommend any of the books carried at www.erzulies.com, as well as her products. Anna only carries handmade and blessed items...not the fake stuff.

My fave book is The Life and Works of Marie Leveaux...it got me on the path to voodoo.

There are also some good yahoo groups that might be of interest to you. Go to yahoo groups and search for voodoo. You might be surprised to find that this is a fairly popular belief system these days, and not limited to the black community or the south.

Good luck.

Answer 2

If you are looking to practice Haitian Vodou then you really need to speak with a Mambo or Hougan about learning. Vodou is not done solo and you can only learn certain things after you are initiated into a house. There are still lots of public information on the religion though. The house I belong to has a website that gives suggestions for books. You can read all the books you like but when you finally find a house you will have to learn things their way. Although some of the practices differ from house to house there is one thing that remains the same and that is regleman or ritual order. Here is the link for the book page and also to the articles about Vodou written by my Mambo. http://www.sosyetedumarche.com/Vodou_Books/vodou_books.html and http://www.sosyetedumarche.com/Vodou_Info/vodou_info.html

Enjoy the reading and I hope the lwa send you to where you need to go. Feel free to email me with any questions. Mambo also allows questions by email.

Answer 3

Having worked with alot of haitians in south florida including one who was the local voodoo doctor, I got the impression that most of the knowledge is handed down orally ( as befits a society with 90 percent illiteracy) and that most any thing you find will either be a scholarly analysis or a commercial attempt to part a fool from his money. If you want to learn the religion itself, you are probably going to have to do field work not read it in a book.

Answer 4

Endora and notashygirl gave good answers. I know voodoo is real. This woman who lives in New Orleans is the real thing and you might find this site interesting. Her spells work and she will teach you do perform spells.

Answer 5

Voodoo likely isn't what you think it is. Secondly, it is traditionally supposed to be learned from another person. It comes from an oral tradition and tends not to be written down. You can start, however, by looking into books on Santeria. This will get you on your way towards finding more resources.

Answer 6

I believe voodoo gets its power from the "power of suggestion."
People "think" they have been affected by a voodoo curse, and eventually their mental state starts to affect them physically. The power of suggestion is so strong, that there have been cases recorded where people "thought" they were cursed to death, and they actually ended up dying. That's how powerful a strong belief can be. Voodoo is all mental.
If you believe in voodoo, it can affect you, and if you don't. its not real.

Answer 7

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5319/veves.htm

Answer 8

I included Voodoo from Wikipedia and something about Marie Laveau the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans....hope this helps.


Voodoo (Vodun or Vudun in Benin and Togo; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a West African ancestral religious system of worship and ritual practices, where deities are born and honored, along with the veneration of ancient and recent ancestors who earlier served the same tutelary deities. This system of worship is widespread in a multitude of African groups in West Africa.




Contents [hide]
1 African origins
1.1 Word Origin, Usage
2 Survival in the Southern US
3 Myths and misconceptions
4 Demographics
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links



[edit] African origins
The cultural area of the Fon, Gun, Mina and Ewe peoples share common metaphysical conceptions around a dual cosmological divine principle Nana Buluku, the God-Creator, and the God-Actor(s) or Vodun(s), daughters and sons of the Creator's twin children Mawu (goddess of the moon) and Lisa (sun god). The God-Creator is the cosmogonical principle, who does not trifle with the mundane, and the Vodun(s) are the God-Actor(s) who actually govern on earthly issues.

The Pantheon of Voduns, though not complete, is quite large and complex. In one version, there are seven direct sons of Mawu, interethnic and related to natural phenomena or historical or mythical individuals, and dozens of ethnic Voduns, defenders of a certain clan or tribe.[citation needed]

West African Vodou, just as all indigenous African Religions, has its primary emphasis on the ancestors, with each family of spirits having its own specialized priest- and priestesshood which are often hereditary. In many African clans, deities might include Mami Wata, who are gods and goddesses of the waters; Legba, who in some clans is virile and young in contrast to the old man form he takes in Haiti and in many parts of Togo; Gu, ruling iron and smithcraft; Sakpata, who rules diseases; and many other spirits distinct in their own way to West Africa.

European colonialism, followed by totalitarian regimes in West Africa suppressed Vodun as well as other forms of the religion. However, because the Vodou deities are born to each African clan-group, and its clergy is central to maintaining the moral, social, and political order and ancestral foundation of its villagers, it proved to be impossible to eradicate the religion. Today in West Africa, the Vodou religion is estimated to be practised by over 30 million people. Vodoun became the official religion of Benin in 1996.

Both American and Caribbean variations of the religion center on ancestral spirits and two main pantheons of Lwas; tribal relationships are de-emphasized.






A little about Marie Laveau- The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Marie Laveau
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Alleged portrait of Marie Laveau, which hangs in the Louisiana State Library in the Cabildo.Marie Laveau (1794? - June 16, 1881?) was an American practitioner of voodoo.

Very little is known with any certainty about the life of Marie Laveau. She is supposed to have been born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1794, the daughter of a white planter and a black woman. She married Jacques Paris, a free Black, on August 4, 1819; her marriage certificate is preserved in Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

M. Paris died in 1820 under unexplained circumstances; after his death, Marie Laveau became a hairdresser who catered to wealthy white families. She took a lover, Luis Christopher Duminy de Glapion, with whom she lived until his death in 1835.

Of her magical career, little definite can be said. She is said to have had a snake called Zombi. Oral traditions suggest that the occult part of her magic mixed Roman Catholic beliefs and saints with African spirits and religious concepts. It is also alleged that her feared magical powers came in fact from a network of informants in the households of the prominent that she developed while a hairdresser and that she owned her own brothel. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by apparently instilling fear in their servants whom she "cured" of mysterious ailments (Which she may have caused or suggested, a form of professional munchausen's disorder).

On June 16, 1881, the New Orleans newspapers announced that Marie Laveau had died. This is noteworthy if only because she continued to be seen in the town after her supposed demise. It is claimed that one of her daughters by M. Glapion assumed her name and carried on her magical practice after her death.

She is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery #1 in New Orleans, in the Glapion family crypt. The tomb continues to attract visitors who draw three crosses (XXX) on its side, hoping that her spirit will grant them a wish.

The mausoleum where Marie Laveau is buried, in Saint Louis Cemetery #1.
[edit] In modern fiction
Marie Laveau appears in a many novels, especially those that touch on the occult. These include Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, in "The Arcanum" by Thomas Wheeler, in Voodoo Dreams by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and in Isabel Allende's romance Zorro, among others. She is the ancestress of a werewolf in the film Cry of the Werewolf. She makes appearances in many other works as well, including children's literature, comic books, and short stories.

Marie Laveau is mentioned in "Midnight Moon" - A novel by Lori Handeland

Marie Laveau is an enemy of both Doctor Strange and Dracula in Marvel Comics.

Answer 9

ITS NOT FREAKIN REAL, AND NEITHER IS WITCHCRAFT