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The Witches Poppet has a long, long history in Europe, and counterparts to it can be evidenced around the world (the Voodo Doll of Voudom & Santeria religions, the mandrake root etc.) .
Essentially, the Witches Poppet is a small doll, traditionally fashioned from wax or sewn from cloth. It is simple, featureless and is employed in sympathetic magick. The Poppet is individualised to represent a particular person by forming a magickal link via something personal - for instance, a lock of hair, fingernails, a scrap of handwriting, photograph or a combination of things (the more personal the better). These are attached to the Poppet, or, as in the case of the cloth-made ones, may be stuffed into it before sewing up the opening.
The Poppet becomes the focus of the rite and the aim is to directly influence the person thus represented. Intentions vary. A Poppet may be used to affect healing, love, prosperity or used for more baleful intentions (in the latter it is customary to use the thorns of a Blackthorn tree due to its correspondence with fate and strife - not steel pins).
A singular Poppet is never used for different intents, or different people, on account of the energy raised and transferred by the ritual working. It is more common that a Poppet will only be used once.
Poppets should ONLY be used by those of sufficient training in these arts.
Essentially, the Witches Poppet is a small doll, traditionally fashioned from wax or sewn from cloth. It is simple, featureless and is employed in sympathetic magick. The Poppet is individualised to represent a particular person by forming a magickal link via something personal - for instance, a lock of hair, fingernails, a scrap of handwriting, photograph or a combination of things (the more personal the better). These are attached to the Poppet, or, as in the case of the cloth-made ones, may be stuffed into it before sewing up the opening.
The Poppet becomes the focus of the rite and the aim is to directly influence the person thus represented. Intentions vary. A Poppet may be used to affect healing, love, prosperity or used for more baleful intentions (in the latter it is customary to use the thorns of a Blackthorn tree due to its correspondence with fate and strife - not steel pins).
A singular Poppet is never used for different intents, or different people, on account of the energy raised and transferred by the ritual working. It is more common that a Poppet will only be used once.
Poppets should ONLY be used by those of sufficient training in these arts.
RETURN of the DOLLIES!
I haven't been here for a while on account of being very busy producing and publishing Tarot decks. I now have eight to date: SINGING SERPENT TAROT; DECADENT DREAM TAROT; The KHAOAMUSICA Tarot (featuring four pieces by NC Dolly Band on the music CD); TAROT of SIDNEY SIME; TAROT of KAY NIELSEN; TAROT of HARRY CLARKE, TAROT o AUBREY BEARDSLEY and soon to be released, OGHAM MOON ORACLE. All of these can be seen on my new website dedicated to Tarot and Oracle, NAKTHAG TAROT STUDIO.
I now begin a new project to add to this list. The project, entitled NURSERY CRYMES The Oracle, consisting of a fully illustrated book with photographs and drawings,
A MUSICAL TAROT!
So ... I instigated a project bringing visual artists and musicians together to create a unique Tarot deck, music CD and book package. It is called The KHAOAMUSICA Tarot and is still a project in process, but does have a website where its progress may be followed (link above). A strange experience as I do not know the other participants personally, for we have come together on the web, and I have only a vague idea of what the remaining visual and musical submissions might be like. It is exciting and also little nerve wracking.
As it stands to date, NC Dolly Band will have four tracks on the album, and I will have a total of nine cards in the
SINGING SERPENT
Sometimes a project gets abandoned, not always because the steam or enthusiasm for it wanes, but due to outside circumstances beyond control. Three -four years ago I started to create a Tarot deck and it had to be shelved for a while, despite only fourteen designs short of the full 78. This wasn't my first attempt at the Tarot. Indeed, I have begun a few times over the years, never getting beyond seven completed cards. My earlier designs were full colour paintings, highly detailed and somewhat elaborate. Over time the designs have been purged of the extraneous and simplified, and painting has given way to ink drawing. Recently, I got back to
TRIAL AND ERROR
The last couple of months have been a somewhat nightmare. I do not have vast experience of making videos and have no one to advise as to the more technical details such as transference from program to program, codecs and all, so it has been endless hours of doing, testing and re-doing. I had to start all the artwork and so forth from scratch and compile anew. I have watched countless YouTube tutorials and followed advice only to find that, in my case, little was relevant and had to be discarded.
What I am trying to do is create a compilation which may be shown in galleries, and even submitted to a TV station, after this was suggested by a fr
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Very interesting indeed.
Something I haven't quite touched on yet in my magical studies.
Something I haven't quite touched on yet in my magical studies.