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n. A poppet; a doll made to resemble a person in order to cast spells on them or to harm them by harming the doll.
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The term Voodoo doll is commonly employed to describe an effigy into which pins are inserted. Although it comes in various different forms, such practices are found in the magical traditions of many cultures across the world. Although the use of the term "Voodoo" implies that the practice has links to either the religion of Haitian Vodou or Louisiana Voodoo, in reality it does not have a prominent place in either.
A voodoo doll, or more commonly known as a Louisiana Voodoo doll, is a supposedly magical object associated with some forms of voodoo and folk magic.
Voodoo doll may also refer to:
Usage examples of "voodoo doll".
Dov pulled Ammi out of his shirt and draped the amulet's chain around the fake voodoo doll's neck.
A favored technique is to cut open the voodoo doll and sprinkle cayenne pepper inside.
It was bad enough that all of his corpse didn't get eaten, but then you had to go and leave that voodoo doll on his boss's doorstep.
One trick was to secretly place a Voodoo doll near the front door of her victims, usually the house-servants of distinguished New Orleans homes.
The victims, upon discovering the Voodoo doll, would be convinced they were being hexed (by some witch other than Marie), and would run to the Voodoo Queen for help.
I more than half believed his vow, and for the first few years he was away, every time I got an unexplainable ache or pain I thought of him in his cell, sticking pins into a bluesuited Lee Blanchard voodoo doll.
He'll see what he can do to defend her from this `movie voodoo doll' while we're gone.
A voodoo doll was simply a crude fetish, believed to have magical potency, fashioned in the image of the person meant to be harmed, accessorized with a lock of his hair, or with a few of his nail clippings, or with a drop of his blood.
The mini-kin, in its original white cotton skin, brought to mind voodoo, of course, but a voodoo doll was nothing like this creature.
The extreme expression of this idea was of course the voodoo doll, the doll you could stick pins in to hurt the one it represented, the doll whose neck you could wring to kill a liv.