do you think someone can cast bad luck on you or even death.
2007-09-20 14:13:15 · 7 answers · asked by roses 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No-No.
2007-09-20 14:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There was once, on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, a calypsonian singing star called The Growler. He had a girlfriend who practiced the religion of the Obeah (Trinidadian variation of Voodoo). Some legend has it that the Growler met a slow, inexplicable death because this girlfriend consulted the Obeah Man to curse him. My suspicion is that he was poisoned. Who knows? If the belief is strong enough, a slip of arsenic can reinforce a powerful religious fear and the effect is the same. Maybe the Obeah Man killed the Growler with magic, maybe with chemicals.
Another note: the houngan can make a zombie it seems to the observer--scary, but it took American Wade Davis to visit Haiti and determine that tetradotoxin (puffer fish poison) was a key ingredient, administered in just the right dose to simulate death and create a "corpse" that is, in effect, in suspended animation, responding to no stimuli, seemingly dead...only to rise once the tiny amount of poison had been processed through the body. Of course, without sufficient care, the zombie suffered irreversible brain damage or death.
So certainly if someone wants you dead and has access to resources like this, you must be wary. But it is not the nebulous magical unknown that should be feared, but earthly ones. Also, I suspect that very great fear and stress over a long term (possibly induced by the belief that one is cursed) can contribute to an early decline by weakening the body and mind. So little is understood about the human mind-body relationship.
2007-09-21 09:45:46 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The religion of Voodoo bears very little resemblance to the Hollywood version of it.
There are "curses" in some forms of Voodoo, but they are not used lightly and in fact are generally reserved to the priests and priestesses of the religion as punishments for criminals the civil law does nothing to punish.
There are several good books on the subject of the religion that are available through a shop I used to work for when I lived in New Orleans. Although I do not practice the religion of Voodoo, I learned a lot about it through that experience.
2007-09-20 21:25:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sweetie that's not bad luck thats what we call life.....Life was meant to be unfair. We blame it on magic when people never encounter voodoo in their life. This goes for the people who don't believe in magic. Me there is possibility voodoo may exist but i am not bringing my hopes up.
2007-09-20 21:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by The artist known as avatar Lvl 3 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Next question?
2007-09-20 22:42:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not saying a single word against it.
2007-09-20 21:32:39 · answer #6 · answered by Yank 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes they can, with a magic wand... or as I call it a gun...
2007-09-20 21:19:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋