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For the first time anywhere, explore the history, mystery, and magick of Voodoo Dolls in this fascinating new book. Tracing the Voodoo doll's roots back in history, author Denise Alvarado provides an intriguing account of the most provocative and mystifying icon of the African-derived healing tradition, dispelling stereotypes and myths, while at the same time showing how to make and use Voodoo dolls to enhance every day living. Learn how to make three kinds of Voodoo dolls, find over 30 spells and rituals to find love, attract wealth, offer protection, and promote healing and happiness. Denise Alvarado was born and raised in the Voodoo and hoodoo rich culture of New Orleans. She has studied mysticism and practiced Creole Voodoo and indigenous healing traditions for over three decades. She is a cultural anthropologist, psychologist, writer, artist, spiritual adviser, and cultural consultant.
- Sales Rank: #997205 in Books
- Published on: 2009-04-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .48" w x 6.00" l, .64 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 210 pages
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- ISBN13: 9781441485076
- Condition: New
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About the Author
Denise Alvarado was born and raised in the "Hoodoo Capital of the World," New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a ritual artist and independent researcher with a background in cultural anthropology and psychology and she has over 40 years experience in the conjure arts and mysticism. She is the author of several books, including the Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook and the Hoodoo Almanac 2012, coauthored with Carolina Dean and Alyne Pustanio. She is also the founder and Editor in Chief of Hoodoo and Conjure Magazine.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Good one-stop source
By N. Mentor
There are few complete sources for the history and use of the magickal poppet, or in the Hoodoo and Voodoo traditions - the Voodoo doll. The book provides the reader with a straight-forward historical backdrop to doll use in magick. There are black-and-white photographs of dolls from the African Diaspora, including some interesting ones from the author's private collection, which should inspire the reader. The latter half of the book focuses on how to make dolls, use them in ritual (including some common Hoodoo spells and hexes), common divinities associated with doll use and some oil recipes. I also like that there is a bibliography for additional references and a source page for supplies. This book is a worthy addition to any witch's or practitioner's library.
30 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
If you know anything about Voodoo...
By Lenore Case
... you do not need this book. And if you don't know anything about Voodoo, I can recommend numerous better books on the subject, including some of this author's source material, like Luisha Teish's great book "Jambalaya".
What I was looking for was a book about Voodoo dolls, preferably with a lot of good photographs. I wanted a book that talked a bit about construction, sure, but since each doll is totally personal even that wasn't as important to me as having a great resource about the dolls themselves, dolls used for similar purposes throughout the world, early and rare samples, and some color wouldn't have killed me. I also would have liked some good written discourse on the subject of dolls in ritual and history. Instead the photographs are limited, poorly lit, many are indistinct, and all of them are black and white. There is no discussion about the dolls pictured: what are they made of, for example. "Vintage" is not an exact term: what vintage is this doll approximately? What's the earliest American Voodoo doll? How about these rare dolls briefly mentioned-- Devil Baby Dolls, for example, any of them still around? I get nothing from this book on these subjects.
Another technical beef I have is with the editing, and this may not be the author's fault, but there were glaring grammatical errors throughout the text.
But most of all, seriously, the world does not need another book masquerading as something authentic while really being just a Neo Pagan Magick 101 book. There are a gajillion of those on the market already. All of them are repetitious, inaccurate, not historically correct, and all of them have been written to death. Throwing a "Voodoo" slant on the same droning tale about "three times three" and "hexing is bad" and blah blah blah? First, that's not actual Witchcraft, and second, that's not actual VOODOO. Hello! Since when does this white-light don't harm your enemies revenge is bad nonsense come into a folk religion like Voodoo? Since all of a sudden in the 1980s, that's when, and not by actual practioners of the actual religion either. I've had a lot of truck with Voodoo and Witchcraft over the years, and the people who practice the real thing, believe me, laugh about this "three times three". That idea came into the New Agey modern Wiccan Neo Pagan thought process from a poorly written poem from the 1960's, not from anything old or authentic. If we are going to discuss old religions-- and Voodoo, while a fairly new amalgamation religion originating in the Americas, has its roots deep in both ancient African and ancient European practices-- let's quit being so disrespectful as to pull the teeth out of them.
I have no doubt some of this white lighty stuff is habit, like a kind of legal disclaimer-- that's unacceptable to me. I know there are some very good practioners who have, maybe from their own personal fears, maybe from their own personal sense of morality and looking for a way to explain that morality, embraced the "three times three" ideology-- but that needs to be made distinct from the actual religious practice that is purportedly being written about. It's also possible some practioners are purposely obscuring the truth with this nonsense, though if you are going to take the time to write a book about a serious subject (and complain throughout said book about how Hollywood has demonized something), then I have little sympathy for that ploy. While I wasn't looking to this book for advice on the practice of magick of any sort, since I already have good sources for that, I do resent coming across this misinformation Yet Again, and in a book with a subject that really could have been SO good. I mean someone out there needs to collect THE definitive information on these dolls, because it's fascinating in and of itself.
I'm returning this book, which is something I've never done before. That's how disappointed I am in it. This book did nothing to add to the repertoire of knowledge on the subject, or on the subject of Hoodoo, or Voodoo, or ritual magick.
22 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Book but made up historic facts
By Creole Guy
Not a historian. One of my pet peeves is when people communicate wrong history in Nawlins. I understand Denise Alvarado writes plenty of books and her success is mostly due to the demand on Nawlins or Louisiana Voodoo heritage being way more than the books that are being written and distributed. The best publications on Voodoo aren't even published. The best history books on Louisiana aren't even published mostly due to a movement by the Government to hide Creole history from America, being that having a class of people of color, that lived on the same or almost the same status as whites during slavery takes away from the American Narrative.
Alvarado states that in 1804, Napoleon invaded Cuba, driving out Hispanics from Cuba into Nawlins and this is how Voodoo came about in the city. That's simply untrue. Creoles were always in Louisiana since the founding of the state and Africans were being imported up the Mississippi River from the Congo and Angola, so Africans were already there and being allowed to worship on Sundays in Nawlins Congo Square. Now, where Creole Voodoo came in, was during the Haitian Black Slave Revolt, which didn't just drive out the white French Creole but a huge population of mixed race or mulattoe Creoles, who fled into Nawlins, during the late 1700's to the mid 1800's. In the entire French Quarter of Nawlins, during the 1800's there was only one Cuban Creole businessman who owned a cigar shop. The mixed race Creoles of middle class status, who monopolized the commerce, publications and businesses were the keepers of Creole Voodoo and not the one of two that came from Cuba. So Creole Voodoo in Nawlins predates her 1804 starting point.
Spain and Spanish heritage is not a huge part of Nawlins except for some of the architecture but many Creoles of Color from Cajun Country or Lower South West La. State keep trying to make Louisiana some Spanish colony when it was dominated by the French (99.9%)-so saying that Cubans ushered in Creole Voodoo couldn't be further from the truth. And just to be real about it, Voodoo dolls aren't really a staple to La. Voodoo but more of a creation of whites and Hollywood. I know plenty of people who practice Voodoo, like almost all of my ancestors, and dolls are definitely over hyped up but she is selling a book even though many of her attempts to lay out the history of dolls in Voodoo are shaky and her history on the practice of Voodoo isn't well connected to any legit history.
You can use dolls but Voodoo stems from the practice of ancestor worship, which predates ancient Egypt and goes back to Cush or Ethiopia, which had an empire that stretched into the Southern U.S.-which many Creoles are of Choctaw or Cherokee mixed, herbal remedies and conjuring of spirits that one can learn to control and even keep. Being from South of Nawlins, in a Parish that has been destroyed by Oil Companies (BP)-Bush/Obama and the U.S. Army Corp, all of the Creoles did Voodoo and I can even recall shape-shifting rituals but of course I didn't write any of this down-YET!
But none the less, dolls can be used in Voodoo and in fact, I have seen people die from the use of dolls but this is due to how Voodoo works, which means that it is a religion and not a craft, so just anyone casting a Voodoo Spell will not work. I am almost of the mind that it is genetic being that more Creoles and Blacks in the "New World" are in daily contact with spirits and that includes blacks from Ricans, to Cubans, Creoles in La., Creoles in Haiti to Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
Bu one thing that she is kinda shading light on, is the coded and double meaning of biblical Psalms. Most people do not know this but the Bible is only a re-copy of another re-copy or yet another re-copy going back through the Jews, to Southern Iraq aka Babylon, to Egypt to Ethiopa or Cush. Biblical Psalms are nothing but very powerful African Spells, that pre-dates Hebrew and Aramaic. She doesn't really have the chops to really lay out Voodoo, so that the average person can understand how and why Voodoo is a religion and not a craft but I am 100% sure that she is a student of Wicca because she uses alot of examples from Europe Wicca or Witchcraft, found in any pubic library, and makes an attempt to lay out the roots of Voodoo but she knows nothing beyond than any lay person who has been interested in the subject and read a few books, here and there.
So due to her use of this I changed my review from a four to a five because this book is a good one and authentic, for the most part but still a tease for many people-who want the Voodoo Bible which has yet to be written
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