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Voodoo Doll Disposal (How do you get rid of a voodoo doll without any bad luck?)
Hi
I have a vodoo doll i bought it as a novelty item i have moved hosue and it came with me ever since i haev had bad luck how can i dispose of it in the right way
Many thanks
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Take a look sometime at the actual historical origins of the "Voodoo doll". For starters, it has no place in the actual practice of Haitian Vodou (the generally accepted spelling). The dolls are an American invention, borrowed largely from West African cultures and adopted into the practice off "Louisiana Voodoo" as the African and Caribbean cultures blended during the years of Slavery in the southern U.S.
Not only that, but the dolls were traditionally used to BLESS, not curse. Putting pins into them was not meant to cause pain to the subject, but rather as a sort of acupuncture-by-proxy to heal and strengthen the person who the doll represented.
The reason why such things acquired an evil taint over the years is due to deliberate action by those who wanted to depict black people as inherently evil. Voodoo was associated with witchcraft, Satanism, and all manner of terrible things so that rich white people would feel justified in keeping the heathens in their place. By assuming that your Voodoo doll has had bad or evil influences over you, you're basically falling for 200-year-old propaganda spread by the worst kinds of racists and bigots in history, whose primary motivation was to ensure their slaves were viewed as inhuman monsters who deserved their chains and their beatings.
Your "Voodoo doll" that you bought as a novelty item has no more power than a Barbie doll. It is a thing, nothing more. Perhaps you've had a string of bad luck since you bought the thing, but that certainly doesn't make the doll the cause of it - and it's amazing how much bad luck one can have if one is expecting to have it!
If the doll really bothers you, though, just burn it and scatter the ashes.
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I would suggest burning it. If it were me (cause this kind of stuff really freaks me out) I would be holding a crucifix wile doing so.
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