NEV-AH! You'll never catch me MWHAHAHAHA! *cough* Sorry I needed to be silly for a moment.

hehehheh... well, something in me told me there was probably an actual honest belief by some spiritualists that different animal parts had some kind of important part to play in magic work... but wasn't that animal part stuff just part of a witches' brew type hoax to frighten those who didn't understand? i thought voodoun and hoodoo were all pretty much just about invoking Loa and making curses and blessings through pacts with demons and gods?

Apparently some people believed that certain body parts did represent certain events, etc. It was a source of divination at one time.

With the Witches brew stuff, some people speculate that witches used animal body part names for parts of recipes to yes confuse people and I believe to keep recipes secret. In a way it was the scientific way of naming ingrediants of its time so that normal people could not understand what it was and feel revolted by the names possibly as well.

As for Hoodoo and/or Voodoo (whichever one uses animal parts the the like) they still use such even today as I said. Those who live in countries such as ours however may do as we do and use alternative sacrifices/etc. I was under the impression Voodoo is more about packing packs with demons/etc. I don't know much about either I just know Hoodoo is what is considered the good magic vs. Voodoo which is supposedly bad.

huh... i dunno enough about it. i thought those were just variations or barbarations of the origional name...it was suppose dto be a survival of indigenous magical practice brought from africa to the americas.

Twi, you have to understand even the Romans practiced animal sacrifices and the like and that is considered typically a form of magic. If we go off that basis of thought then you can understand that African cultures do practice similar things, many countries still do in fact. Going off of what we know I'm very confident and certain we can say there are still those who practice at least maybe "Voodoo" who use animal parts or otherwise in their rituals.

oh, i'm not denying that. ^_^ i see what you are saying realy. and i gotta say it does mak alot of sense.

I knew you did, but it's good to make sure everyone understands. XP

heheh. X3

so anyway, i guess i would like to thin about some of the D&D ritual spells...

lol Well then you know (I would hope) where those sorts of questions go.

i could probably guess easily enough! XD

*pats his head and gives him a hug* Good man! ^_^ -_^

i think i want to avoid being rewarded in that way... iii-_- Sydney called me good boy and pet my head right after telling me something that caused a huge fight with Rebecca...

Oooo...not so good. *tosses him a cookie* That work?

sure... thank you.