what to do if you receive a voodoo doll as a gift?
A friend and I were talking about voodoo dolls, and he said he has one with him. He asked me if I wanted it, I said no because I don't know how it works. He said it's okay. But I still say no. When I see him the following day, he brings the doll with him, and it has pins in them already. What should I do? should I give it back to him?
You could tell him that you find it creepy and ask him to take it back. It's probably a tourist souvenir kind of voodoo doll, and not a real one that could do harm to anyone, if you believe in such things. I think many cultures have held the belief that making a model or image of a disliked person and inflicting injuries upon the model could also inflict corresponding injuries upon the person
themselves. A voodoo doll is just another example of such a thing.
I stand corrected then. I'm European and we don't really have Voodoo, just witchcraft Lil. Making a poppet was always done with malicious intent here.
We tend to associate voodoo dolls with sticking pins into effigies of people in order to cause them pain. This is a mistake. Voodoo dolls,far from being used to torture people at a distance,are used to channel healing energy to them.
Apparently it?s meant to be a good thing to make a wooden model of someone and insert wooden pins into it at strategic points.
The malicious version of the practice comes not from Voodoo but from European Witchcraft. Witches would use poppets,dolls made to represent a person,in the way now associated with Voodoo.
Don't get your education from Hollywood movies like Hawkflight does.
I'm from Ireland,we don't have voodoo here either,but I know to have the facts before offering information.
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Ephesians Chapter 6
11. Put on the whole Armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
13. Wherefore take unto you the whole Armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Matthew Chapter 6
24. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
1 Corinthians Chapter 15
33. Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Timothy Chapter 1
4. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: [so do].
1 Timothy Chapter 4
1. Now the Spirit speaker expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
7. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.
2 Thessalonians Chapter 3
14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15. Yet count [him] not as an enemy, but admonish [him] as a brother.
Romans Chapter 16
17. Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and of fences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Revelation Chapter 21
8. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which Burnett with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Matthew Chapter 13
41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Revelation Chapter 20
14. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 12
13. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
Matthew Chapter 22
37. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38. This is the first and great commandment.
39. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
John Chapter 10
23. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
30. I and [my] Father are one.
[Say these prayers 3x a day with absolute faith.]
2 Samuel Chapter 22
3. The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Savior; thou save st me from violence.
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John Chapter 14
1. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2. In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
what to do if you receive a voodoo doll as a gift?
