Voodoo

Voodoo
Punk Mambo (Valiant Entertainment) is a powerful voodooist whose skill in the Bayou arts is strong enough to enthrall a Loa, one of the higher divinities of the mystical faith.
Power/Ability to:	Utilize voodoo magic.

"Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead."

― Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

"In voodoo, the demarcation between life and death is more fluid; helping voodoo followers create order out of disorder."

― ‘Gods of Suburbia’: Dina Goldstein’s Arresting Photo Series on Religion vs. Consumerism

The power to utilize voodoo magic. Form of Magic. Practitioners of this trade are often known as bokors or witch doctors.

Also Called

• Voodoo Manipulation
• Bayou/Effigy/Voodoo Magic
• Haitian Vodou
• Hoodoo
• Louisiana Voodoo
• Voudoun
• Voodooism
• West African Vodun

Capabilities

The user can utilize voodoo magic, ie. access supernatural forces to improve their daily lives to attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. As in many other spiritual and medical folk practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions and bodily fluids.

Like most Magic, Voodoo Magic has a variety of uses, the most known are Necromancy and using Voodoo dolls (an effigy of a person) for Motor-Skill Manipulation.

Voodoo magic practitioners like using sympathetic magic principles which has two aspects:

• Law of Similarity or "like affects like": model or miniature of a real-world object which affects the real-life counterpart when it is changed. For example, a miniature New York where you can move buildings and they'll move in the real New York. Or a globe (careful with it) if you poke it carelessly, you'll crush the entirety of China.

• Second is Law of Contact/Contagion: that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. This latter makes someone who knows how to do it right truly dangerous because they can ignore any distance to hurt someone with only a bit of something they have used or (even better) part of them, hair and nail-clippings are traditional for this.

Applications

• Abjuration
• Body Magic
  • Blood Magic
• Card Magic
• Conjuration
• Divination
  • Cartomancy
• Hypnotic Magic
• Invocation
  • Deity Manipulation
• Love Magic
• Luck Magic
  • Blessing Inducement
  • Curse Inducement
• Nature Magic
  • Environmental Magic
• Puppet Mastery
  • Motor-Skill Manipulation
• Shadow Magic
  • Animated Shadow
• Shapeshifting
  • Size Manipulation
• Spirit Magic
  • Adaptive Possession
    • Multi Possession
  • Animancy
  • Necromancy
• Sympathetic Magic
  • Sensorial Link
• Voodoo Doll Creation

Techniques

• Voodoo Combat
• Voodoo Doll Physiology

Associations

• Magic
  • Ritual Magic
  • Shamanism cleaves very close to voodoo in some aspects, some practitioners may be able to use both.
• Mystical Conversion
• Necromancy
• Orisha Physiology
• Vodou Deity Physiology

Limitations

• Magic Negation/Magic Destruction
• Most have to deal with the Loa.
  • May have to bargain with/serve loas for power.
    • But again, if ones will is strong enough. The user can make the Loa work for them instead.

Known Users

See Also: Hollywood Voodoo.

Literature

• Erzulie Gogol (Discworld)

Movies

• Chucky (Child's Play)
• Dr. Death (Child's Play)
• Tia Dalma/Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)
• Blackbeard (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
• Eva (Witching and Bitching)
• Sukie Ridgemont (The Witches of Eastwick)
• Jane Spofford (The Witches of Eastwick)
• Alexandra Medford (The Witches of Eastwick)

Live Television

• Voodooists (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Ayida (Angel o Demonio)
• Papa Midnite (Constantine)
• Carrionites (Doctor Who)
• Baron Sunday (Lois and Clark)
• Leonardo (Los Protegidos)

Cartoons

• Big Bayou (Courage: The Cowardly Dog)
• Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog)
• Mama Odie (The Princess and the Frog)
• Simone and Lena (Scooby Doo on Zombie Island)
• Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)

Comics

• Linton "Papa" Midnite (Vertigo/DC Comics)
• Brother Voodoo (Marvel Comics)
• Calypso Ezili (Marvel Comics)
• Marie Laveau (Marvel Comics)
• Black Talon (Marvel Comics)
• Victoria Greaves-Trott/Punk Mambo (Valiant Entertainment)
• Priscilla Kitaen/Voodoo (Wildstorm Publications/DC Comics)

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Szayel Aporro Granz (Bleach)
• Kain Hikaru (Fairy Tail)
• Abel (Fairy Tail)
• Machi (Nagasarete Airantou)
• Basil Hawkins (One Piece)
• Yukari Sendo (Rosario + Vampire)
• Kugisaki Nobara (JUJUTSU KAISEN)
• Emi Ogasawara (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)

Video Games

• Happy Harry Houngan (Clayfighter 63⅓)
• Aku Aku (Crash Bandicoot)
• Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot)
• JP Dumond (The Darkness 2: Vendetta)
• Witch Doctors (Diablo Series)
  • Nazeebo
• Sadida God (Dofus/Wakfu); via Dolls
  • Sadida Class; via Dolls
• Bokor Labas (Maximo: Ghosts to Glory)
• LeChuck (Monkey Island series)
• Voodoo Lady (Monkey Island series)
• Jolly Roger (Pirates Of The Caribbean Online)
• Witch Doctors (Pirate101)
• Mesmerelda (Skylanders)
• Bad Juju (Skylanders)
• Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper)
• Baron Samedi (Smite)
• Trolls (World of Warcraft)

Music

• Baron Samedi (Live and Let Die)
• Voodoo Thursday (Don't Phunk With My Heart)

Other

• Lao the Keymaster (Grindhouse and Watercolors)
• Cho the Gatekeeper (Grindhouse and Watercolors)
• Voodoo Jester (Heroes of Newerth)

Gallery

Szayel Aporro Granz (Bleach) can create Voodoo dolls of his opponents in order to attack their insides.

Linton "Papa" Midnite (Vertigo/DC Comics)

Priscilla Kitaen/Voodoo (WildStorm/DC Comics)

Voodoo Jester (Heroes of Newerth) is a ranged Intelligence hero.

Shuma-Gorath (Marvel Comics) is able to create voodoo dolls of entire planets.

Doctor Voodoo (Marvel Comics)

Chucky (Child's Play) performing voodoo magic on Dr. Death.

Kugisaki Nobara (JUJUTSU KAISEN)

Kain Hikaru's Mr. Cursey (Fairy Tail)

Basil Hawkins (One Piece) using voodoo dolls to transfer damage taken himself to others.

The Four (Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island) are paralyzed by Lena's voodoo magic.

Marie Laveau (American Horror Story: Coven) is the Voodoo Queen.

Leonardo (Los Protegidos) can make people lose their memories or cause them physical damage using voodoo.

Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper) was born into a family of mystics as she used her powers to punish the world for fearing her as a child.

Abel (Fairy Tail) possessed the same Curse Magic as Kain Hikaru.

Lao the Keymaster (Grindhouse and Watercolors) was granted the title of "Keymaster" - as well as all abilities and entitlements therein - by the Loas.

Cho the Gatekeeper (Grindhouse and Watercolors) was granted the title of "Gatekeeper" - as well as all abilities and entitlements therein - by the Loas.

Carrionites (Doctor Who)

Nazeebo The Witch Doctor (Diablo 3)

Mama Odie (The Princess and the Frog), the "Voodoo Queen of the Bayou".

Tia Dalma/Caylpso (Pirates of The Caribbean)

As a master of voodoo, LeChuck (Monkey Island series) can use it to turn others into the undead.

Voodoo Lady (Monkey Island series)

Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog), the evil Hoodoo and Voodoo shadowman.

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