Handmade Poppet 6 inch tall
Black: transfiguration, removal of bad habits, grief, strife, poverty, confusion, bad luck. Fully black colored dolls are used in black magic.
There are few practices of Paganism or witchcraft more widely known--and widely misinformed--to the outside world than the concept and use of “Voodoo dolls.” While the actual items named as such are predominately a myth of twentieth-century popular culture, there are numerous accounts of folk magic and witchcraft practitioners using what is better termed a poppet.
The term “poppet" actually comes from Middle English, with roots in the Latin word for girl or doll. The word puppet, which came later, also derives from this. The use of a poppet in modern Pagan practice is actually a method of sympathetic magic--having an item represent or correspond to another thing. A poppet, usually being “person-shaped”, often represents someone to whom the magickal working or spell is directed.
Colors and there meanings:
♦ Yellow: success, understanding, attractiveness, confidence.
♦ White: peace, security, cleanliness, health, honesty, sincerity, protection from rumors.
♦ Red: power, energy, love, health, passion.
♦ Purple: spirituality, physical and spiritual healing, strength, wisdom, contact with spirits, psychic sense, resistance to black magic.
♦ Green: money, wealth, abundance, prosperity, fertility, luck, health, generosity, rebirth.
♦ Blue: love, the color of Marie Laveau.
♦ Indigo: sacred color, removing evil.
♦ Pink: love, affection, honor, dedication, unity, kindness, happiness, luck, friendship, morality.
♦ Black: transfiguration, removal of bad habits, grief, strife, poverty, confusion, bad luck. Fully black colored dolls are used in black magic.
♦ Brown: doubt, indecision, uncertainty.
♦ Gray: termination, a stalemate situation.
♦ Orange: success, support, rapid adaptation.
