The power to utilize voodoo magic. A form of Magic. Practitioners of this trade are often known as bokors or witch doctors.
Also Called
- Bayou 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
- Animation
- Biological Manipulation
- Card Manipulation
- Darkness Manipulation
- Divination
- Healing
- Necromancy
- Possession by allowing spirits posses the user or others.
- Probability Manipulation
- Puppet Mastery
- Reanimation
- Resurrection
- Shapeshifting
- Size Manipulation
- Smoke Manipulation/Vapor Manipulation
- Summoning
- Sympathetic Magic
- Voodoo Doll Creation
- Zombification
Techniques
Associations
- Blood Magic
- Curse Inducement
- Magic
- Shamanism cleaves very close to voodoo in some aspects, some practitioners may be able to use both.
Known Users
See Also: Hollywood Voodoo
Literature
- Erzulie Gogol (Discworld)
Films
- Tia Dalma/Calypso (Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Blackbeard (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides)
- Chucky (Child's Play)
- Dr. Death (Child's Play); Chucky's voodoo instructor.
Western Television
- Papa Midnite (Constantine)
- Voodooists (American Horror Story: Coven)
- Marie Laveau
- Leonardo (Los Protegidos)
- Baron Sunday (Lois and Clark)
- Ayida (Angel o Demonio)
Western Animation
- Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog)
- Mama Odie (The Princess and the Frog)
- Simone and Lena (Scooby Doo on Zombie Island)
- Big Bayou (Courage: The Cowardly Dog)
Comic Books
- Papa Midnite (DC/Vertigo)
- Voodoo (Wildstorm Publications/DC Comics)
- Brother Voodoo (Marvel)
- Calypso Ezili (Marvel)
- Marie Laveau (Marvel)
- Shadowman (Variant Comics)
Manga/Anime
- Kain Hikaru (Fairy Tail)
- Basil Hawkins (One Piece)
- Szayel Aporro Granz (Bleach)
- Emi Ogasawara (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)
Video Games
- Mz. Ruby (Sly Cooper)
- Aku Aku (Crash Bandicoot)
- Uka Uka (Crash Bandicoot)
- Trolls (World of Warcraft)
- Witch Doctor (Diablo Series)
- Bokor Labas (Maximo: Ghosts to Glory)
- Happy Harry Houngan (Clayfighter 63⅓)
Music
- Baron Samedi (Live and Let Die)
Gallery
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