Dolls full of magic.

We associate them with needle-filled voodoo dolls for casting curses. But more often they were supposed to attract love, health and happiness.

Magic dolls have been created for thousands of years in almost all cultures. They were made from wax, clay, wood, and fabrics stuffed with straw. Something materially connected with the spirit of the person whom the puppet was supposed to identify and magically “link” with her was always added to the puppet: hair, nails, or shreds of fabric from clothes. In order for such a doll to acquire proper strength, it was necessary to observe several more important factors.

Egypt: health and revenge

In the state of the pharaohs, magic dolls were most often used for medicinal purposes. The priests were experts. Diseased organs were painted on the “body” of such figures, and then a hand puppet was ordered or placed in front of the altar of one of the gods so that these organs would restore their normal functioning. 

In the Louvre, an Egyptian wax doll of the XNUMXnd century AD was preserved, with the help of which it was supposed to cast evil spells on someone. It depicts a naked woman with numerous nails driven into her eyes, ears, mouth, chest, arms and legs, which clearly indicates the magically negative intentions of the doll creator. In the same way, the priests acted with the rulers of hostile peoples with whom the pharaoh fought, piercing their images with thorns and casting secret magic spells over them.

Greece: against the spell and for the sake of love 

Christopher Pharaoh, professor of classical literature at the University of Chicago, believes that there was a widespread custom in Greece of making colossi, or dolls (of bronze, clay, or rags), whose task was to protect their owners from spells that could be directed at them.

The Greeks believed that the colossi would intercept this spell, neutralizing the evil intentions of the enemy. These dolls were also used to confirm the lover's love or to persuade him to look at the woman in question with a more favorable look and, as a result, give her his heart. 

Magic lives forever 

It would be wrong to think that only in ancient times or the dark ages of the Middle Ages people used magic dolls. Moreover, these were not necessarily only dark and superstitious people. 

Here in nineteenth-century London, then considered the capital of the world, the Princess of Wales, Caroline Augusta Hanover, the only daughter of King George IV, did not want to marry William II, King of the Netherlands. On her orders, a doll of her future husband was made, which the princess ordered to be pierced with pins in the hope that William would be stabbed to death. Fortunately, the magic did not work and Caroline Augusta later happily married Frederick, Duke of Saxony. 

Today, the worst thing is dolls made by voodoo priests in Haiti and the southern United States. Voodoo was brought from the Black Continent and is still considered the secret knowledge of local tribal sorcerers. One of its elements is a possession ritual that supposedly results in the death of the person who was cursed. This is done by making a suitable magic doll. 

Among the followers of voodoo there is also a belief that the priests - also with the help of special dolls - are able to revive the deceased and use him for certain works that he, like a zombie, will do without objection. 

Great Goddess and gifts of life 

In the modern witch religion of Wicca, grain dolls symbolize the Great Goddess and the gifts of life she brings. Wiccans also make dolls to win someone's love. In this case, through appropriate prayers through the Goddess, a specific process of “binding” and directing the feelings of a given person to the one who “asks for love” and creates this puppet takes place. 

As you can see, dolls are universal magical tools... 

Magic ritual for you:

wiccan cake doll 

If you want to harness the magic power of a Wicca doll, bake a love puppet.

• Take 3-4 tablespoons of flour, a tablespoon of butter, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of cold water. 
• Pour a teaspoon of honey into the kneaded dough and add some raisins. You can also add nuts, lemon, tangerine or orange zest. 
• Every time you add another candy, say the name of your loved one and imagine that every time you add it, you get the same sweet kiss from him. 
• Then bake the doll, making sure that it turns red and does not burn around the edges.
• When you take the figurine out of the oven, say the name of your lover and add: "And love me now and forever." 

Put the doll in the underwear drawer.

Berenice fairy