Voodoo
The creepy thing is that you don't have to believe in it for it to work on you.

And it works.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:22, 8 replies)

You need to expand on this, I'm afraid.
Put aside some time after tea.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:23, closed)

I have worked with several Haitians
Who practiced voodoo. If you wanted to curse someone, for good or evil, it is quite simple and it works whether or not the person being cursed believes in voodoo.
(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:32, closed)

Eh?
So you're willing to accept the reality of voodoo based on the testimony of people who have an unexamined belief in it?

(I'll happily accept that people are far more suggestible than we tend to think, and that being told you've had a curse put on you might have a detrimental effect even if you disavow the belief system from which the curse originates. But that's a long way from substantiating a claim that voodoo works. It just means that humans tend to fall for any old crap - as have you.)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:37, closed)

It fucking doesn't work
Bono and Bob Geldoff are still walking about for a start.
(Bushcricket, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:30, closed)

what you said

It's a bag of old bollocks.

HTH
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:41, closed)

You must be trolling us...
"The creepy thing is that you don't have to believe in it for it to work on you."

That goes for hell as well...unless the christians are wrong.
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 7 Apr 2011, 17:43, closed)

And that's NEVER happened. OH no!

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:06, closed)

Bollocks.
Voodoo is in no way creepy and in a lot of ways quite funny -- being based, as it is, on applying Catholic saints and sayings onto an amalgamated collection of tribal and regional beliefs brought together by the slave trade.
Actually, now I think of it, Voodoo is very frightening indeed -- it is truely horible to think of people being treated in the way slaves were and having to come up with a makeshift quasi-religion to help them through it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 18:08, closed)