Voodoo or Vaudun

Euphemisms

Examples of Vaudun Magic

• Gris-gris - A charm of woven rope, feathers and beads, worn as an armband and fed with blood. Some gris-gris can cheat death, but they must be fed with immortal blood - mortal blood will undo the spell. Other gris-gris can bring wealth, power or sex - these require the sacrifice of virgins, children or preadolescence boys. A necromancy-testing gris-gris is made from black feathers, bone and a mummified hawk's foot, which reacts to a necromancer.
• Verve - Symbols drawn in a Vaudun sanctuary to summon The Lao. Usually brackets a pathway to the altar, or on or around the grave of the person they are raising. Voodoo vévés are symbolic designs used in ritual, drawn on the ground with cornmeal prior to or during a Voodoo ceremony. These designs represent the various powers and attributes of the Loa (God, Goddess, Spirit, Orisha) to be invoked, and serve as a focal point for invocation and offerings. Several vévés of different Loa may be drawn for one ceremony.

• Dominga Salvador - The most powerful Vaudun priestess in the Midwest, possibly the whole of North America. She is considered a 'bad' vaudun. (tLaC)
• Manny Rodriguez - Powerful practitioner, but he gave it up to be a plain animator. He was considered a 'bad' vaudun at that time. (tLaC)
• Grandmother Flores - Anita Blake's maternal grandmother. It is unclear whether she was 'good' or 'bad' but her concern for Anita tips the scale towards good.
• John Burke - Rumored to have been part of several ritual murders before tLaC. The biggest animator in New Orleans, second only to Anita in the Midwest; one of the 'best' vaudun priests in the country
• Peter Burke - brother to John Burke. There are also several rumors surrounding his involvement in homicides. It was discovered posthumous in tLaC that he was indeed involved in many lurid affairs. To learn more about this, please go to the RPIT Cases page.

• They cannot enter a cemetery at night without a permit, because of their stereotype (ref? LaC??)
  
• Signs of a vaudun ritual include verve drawn in chalk, blood and sometimes a dead fire. (LaC?)
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