Love Puppet, I Mean Poppet

The making of Voodoo dolls, poppets, fetishes, and ritual effigies has taken place since antiquity. Though the practice is ancient, their present use remains similar.

Poppets can be used for healing purposes, promoting health, finding love, creating happiness and good luck, for protection, for binding, cursing, and to manipulate energy in numerous other ways. Poppets comes in several forms, including wax, cloth, paper, wood, root, and clay.

Today's Voodoodle was inspired by one of the vintage poppets that can be found in the New Orleans Voodoo museum. This style of Voodoo doll used to be quite popular in New Orleans. He has a red pin for love and a white pin for attracting love to him.

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep - Voodoodle #6

After drawing this little voodoo poppet guy in Photoshop, he looks so cuddly I think I have to make one. I took a photograph from an old cemetary that is near my home and decided to lay the doll on top of the grave. I added a mojo hand, aka mojo bag or gris gris bag. It contains items to bring the dead peace and happiness in the afterlife. This is officially Voodoodle #6.

I realized after placing the number 6 on the heart of this Voodoo poppet, that perhaps this was an subconscious tribute to the family of 6 who were recent murder suicide victims and lived in a nearby town.

May they rest in peace!

Another Doodle Poppet Voodoo Doll

I can see I am getting in a rut with these poppets. Time to branch out. My next one will be different, though I don't have as much time to do another George Bush Zombie doll. On the other hand, the world of poppets is limitless...and I am having fun mastering the Wacom tablet.:)