Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Familiar Spirits in Jivaro Sorcery Among the Jivaro witches, as in effective sorcery anywhere, drug-taking is not random but functional. The witches drink natema because it opens the door to the spirit world and allows the witch to acquire his own pack of tsentsak. The tsentsak are legion, shaped like figures from a [...]
SOURCE : Taoism of the Left Hand : Necromancy, Sorcery and Fetishes Some practitioners of the Secret school have the ability of commanding ghosts and spirits. They need to use a miniature Chinese coffin to store a piece of bone from any part of the corpse buried in an unprotected grave. A ritual is performed [...]
SOURCE : Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Europe Using spells and rituals to kill or maim a man or his beasts, to spoil a neighbour’s butter-making, to cause the water from a well to be foul, to produce good or bad weather, to make Jack fall in love with Jill – all these [...]
SOURCE : Black Magic The simplest form of low magic is sorcery, in which a certain physical act is performed to achieve a particular result. For example, a wax image is melted over a fire to make a victim die; blood is scattered over a field to ensure a bountiful harvest in the next growing [...]
SOURCE : “Spiritual” devotee condemns tribal shamanism and sorcery (interesting argument) Sure, there are worthless “Pagans” who are more interested in money, sex and power than in [using] religion to transform the individual. Magic is a neutral tool – not inherently religious, spiritual or “good”. Mastery over transitory phenomena… plays on those who are too [...]
SOURCE : National African Religion Congress rejects Komgo religion It seem the National African Religion Congress, a certifying Board for Priests and Priestesses of African-Based religions (COG would be a rough Wiccan equivalent), doesn’t include Palo practitioners due to their ritual methods. “Palo, which arrived in Cuba during the West African slave trade, has specific [...]
SOURCE : Frequently Asked Questions About Black Magic, Voodoo and the Spirit World Yes, if you are a female, you are more prone to becoming a victim of the spirit world compared to men. When woman go through their monthly cycles they auric shield opens up, during that time period if she goes near the [...]
SOURCE : Hoodoo (folk magic) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “[In] Hoodooism, anythin’ da’ chew do is de plan of God undastan’, God have somepin to do wit evah’ thin’ you do if it’s good or bad, He’s got somepin to do wit it . . . jis what’s fo’ you, you’ll git it.”[12]
Oriental Metaphysics Journal: My favourite tale of Kerala’s Tantric Masters From time to time he would place one of these women under hypnotic control and bring her to a burning ground, where bodies are cremated. There he would bathe her in liquor and invoke the power of the goddess with mantras and mudras (symbolic hand [...]
SOURCE : The Use of Graveyard soil and ashes in Buddhist charms and amulets I am very fascinated by Thai magic and amulets and one thing that surprises me is that many of the “white magic” amulets contain graveyard soil, ashes, bones and flesh from the dead and also corpse oil. Within other traditions of [...]
