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In terms of spirit work, I can't really begin to express how fucking idiotic this is. An analogy might be finding a recipe for mustard gas on the internet and mixing it up in your bath for a laugh and to see what might happen – crossed with luring a rabid pitbull into your house with the idea of torturing it in your bathtub as part of some weird parlour game that doesn't even make any sense.
It's a reasonable rule of thumb not to dick around with the intranquil dead unless you have a very good reason to, and really know what you are doing. At the very least, you want very solid relationships with the Boneyard Powers, permissions sorted out on that front, and a great deal of skill in spirit wrangling before you would even think about interacting with the sort of random roaming dead that this inane lunacy is trying to attract. From a Voodoo perspective, it really is like running out into traffic with a blindfold on to test whether cars are solid.
Why would you do this? What are you trying to accomplish with it? Assuming - for the sake of argument - that there is some manner of objective validity to the world of spirit, do you really think this is the best way of going about interacting with it?
The most disturbing thing about it is that there are valid elements of spirit work in the basic routine, but jumbled together in a way that doesn't make any sense. It's so muddled and confused that I can't even figure out what it's trying to do, but trying to entice a spirit into a doll that you've bound to yourself (by putting your nail clippings in it), is a terrible idea. Spitting salt water over the doll at the end is a bit like banishing by throwing acid in something's face (as salt is toxic to the dead), and the whole "hide and seek" thing is just bizarre.
Any magic should really begin with the question: why? If you accept - even as an experiment - that these matters are in some sense real, then it follows that you should closely examine your motivations before attempting to engage with them. You want to have a very good idea in place of why you are doing what you are doing, and if the answer is just "for a lark", you might want to reconsider before jumping into entirely unknown and particularly sketchy waters. |
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