Voodoo Rituals: A User's Guide

by Heike Owusu

Influence the unconscious mind. To practice Voodoo is to enter the ancient world of Magik, where secret arts developed from rituals held by ancient pagans, Native American tribes, Haitians, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402700350
• ISBN13: 9781402700354
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very good buy!

It seems there are a lot of bad reviews of this book. I think that is because of the title. It simply does not do justice to this book. Think of this book as various magick systems with a voodoo orientated theme. You will learn more about vodou however at the same time you will learn other highly important and valuable magickal systems that will improve your life if you can manage to understand and keep an open mind. It does not go into great detail of the magickal systems however it does give the ideas and spells needed to start producing your own magick. With this book you can also further progress your own magickal abilities as well as learn to defend against the darker arts. That's just my point of view however. Find out for yourself.

ok listen...

From someone whos been reading tons and tons of books my whole life about magick, the different kinds, and voodoo. I would say if your looking for a book thats going to teach you voodoo rituals, GOOD LUCK:) If any such book truly exsists I would like to see it. Most books on magick are vague in their teachings anyhow. The idea here, and one I feel this book accomplishes, is juicing up your imagination. Any person whos even remotely been involved in rituals of any kind, can look in this book and realize. The practices described in this book are running on an unstable system. If you read between the lines you can see many times, the author clearly states, only a high priest can truly accomplish such feats, and unless you got about 30 or 40 on lookers trancing out, and ready to be possesed by a "Snake God". The I would say your attempts at recreating anything in this book "ritual wise" are going to be anything but successful. However, this book redeems itself, as a reference, especially for someone just learning about the different kinds of magick practices and how they relate to one another. Also I thought the sections on symbols and tools were pretty good. So I guess the point i'm making is this. Dont buy this book if you think it's gonna make you some kind of voodoo priest. Do buy this book if you want to stir your imagination, and provide yourself with a quick read and reference for ideas, that you'll find will fit in nicely with your other books on beginning experiments in the craft. Imagination is the true key to effective magick. Anyone who tells you any different, has probably been reading way to much into things.

a marvelous magickal book

I was stunned by the one star reviews of this book. This book is one of the most awesome I have ever read. This is a true voodoo book. It has everything from loas to spells of all kinds, evocation of spirits, how to develop will power, spiritual vision,etc. Its true that this book does not give instructions for calling the loa into a person but gives instructions for calling them into a magick mirror. Kraig in Modern Magick calls voodoo low magick. But magick it is. This means it deals with evocations, spells etc. for common things. Magick is Magick. This book is not a mixture of traditions, but treats magick from a voodoo perspective. The book is just great. It is far and away better than most books on magick from any tradition which are for the most part watered down. You have to read and study these books carefully to get to any occult secrets but Owusu's book comes right out and tells you. My guess is that this book is a well kept secret with occultists who may be amazed that the deeper secrets have found their way into this book. I have studied the occult for many years and this book is among the top five. Occultists should be skeptical of things because things are not always what they appear to be. I say this because this book is not a poor book, but a very illuminating one. Fantastic!