Doodoo Dolls - What Do You Think Happens to Your Enemy?

The practice goes way beyond the voodoo related religions. This is not afro caribbean thing. They had similar dolls in assyria and egypt and greece and rome, and they would even stick pins in them. In european folk magic, they would make little dolls called poppets that they would use to cast spells on people. And in scotland, they wouldMake clay figurines known as clay bodies, and then put them in streams or rivers to dissolve and thus cause gradual harm to the person they represented. Sometimes they'd make these dolls and then do things to them as part of a treaty making ceremony between kings.