The Attention Deficit Disorder Thread

Vodou has come to be associated in popular culture with the lore of Satanism, zombies and "voodoo dolls". Zombie creation has been referenced within rural Haitian culture,[19] but it is not a part of the Vodou religion proper. Such manifestations fall under the auspices of the bokor or sorcerer rather than the priest of the Loa.

The practice of sticking pins in dolls has history in folk magic, but its exact origins are unclear. How it became known as a method of cursing an individual by some followers of what has come to be called New Orleans Voodoo, but more appropriately Hoodoo (folk magic), is unknown. This practice is not unique to Voodoo or Hoodoo, however, and has as much basis in magical devices such as the poppet and the nkisi or bocio of West and Central Africa. These are in fact power objects, what in Haiti is called pwen, rather than magical surrogates for an intended target of sorcery whether for boon or for bane. Such Voodoo dolls are not a feature of Haitian religion, although dolls intended for tourists may be found in the Iron Market in Port au Prince. The practice became closely associated with the Vodou religions in the public mind through the vehicle of horror movies and popular novels.

There is a practice in Haiti of nailing crude poppets with a discarded shoe on trees near the cemetery to act as messengers to the otherworld, which is very different in function from how poppets are portrayed as being used by Vodou worshippers in popular media and imagination, i.e. for purposes of sympathetic magic towards another person. Another use of dolls in authentic Vodou practice is the incorporation of plastic doll babies in altars and objects used to represent or honor the spirits, or in pwen, which recalls the aforementioned use of bocio and nkisi figures in Africa.[citation needed]

Although Vodou is often associated with Satanism, Satan is rarely incorporated in Vodou tradition. Mississippi Delta folksongs mix references to Vodou and to Satan.[citation needed]

Further adding to the dark reputation of Vodou were films such as The Serpent and the Rainbow and Live and Let Die (part of Ian Fleming's widely successful James Bond series). Fleming's depiction of the schemings of a fiendish Soviet agent (see Mr. Big, Baron Samedi) using Vodou to intimidate and control a vast network of submissive black followers reached an incomparably greater audience than any careful scholarly work on the subject of Vodou.

To address the myths and misconceptions that have historically maligned the practice and present a more constructive view of the religion, in April 1997, fifteen scholars gathered at UCSB for a colloquium on Haitian Vodou, The Spirit and The Reality: Voodoo and Haiti created a new association under the name, the Congress of Santa Barbara also known as KOSANBA.[20]

 

Alright! Let's do this.

 

this is my official lunch post of rambling thoughts and unattached ideas
its sole purpose it to gain communication with the last remaining members of a slowly dying Internet icon of a porn board
ill of course be excited to get back later tonight in hopes than many have seen this and its been quoted time and again, raising an in depth conversation that i will not feel compelled to join into until most all the good arguments have been made, and only then to insight some other member with rants about there behavior causing them to finally just leave the board all together
thus resulting in the board dying just a tiny bit faster

 

That's a whole lotta words for not much said.

 

Lol that's what I do

 

How's it going grims?

 

:33:

 

Watch for the goat.

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When I post a youtube video on my phone it doesn't show up on my screen so let me know if that worked.

 

Ir worked.

 

I saw the goat.

 

There's a whole series of those commercials with the vikings on vacation in various places. Pretty humorous.

 

The goat on skis is pretty funny.

 

Hang on....

 

Take your time. Got something needs seeing to. BBL....

 

it was going great, i was on a tight sched, sorry i just post for lunch and then off.

oh i see your having the same issue. ok ill wait..............

 

Back again.

I'm used to your capricious ways at this point grims. No worries.


So, wazzup?

 

Where is you at?

 

Who, meez?