Using Spirit Dolls In Your Home
Using Spirit Dolls In
Your Home
Spirit dolls are tools found widely across many
religions, though they are primarily used by practitioners of Santeria and Voodoo.
They are vessels for powerful spirits to work through, including those of
ancestors, familiars, or other entities. They may protect the home, aid in
divination, draw love or good fortune, or act as recipients for offerings to
ancestors and familial spirits.
Making spirit
dolls.
Spirit dolls, themselves, can be any kind of doll. They
may be anything from mass-produced plastic doll babies, to rag dolls, to
elaborate handmade clay dolls, to beautifully clothed dolls intended to
represent Orishas like Yemaya or Obatala. Some practitioners choose to make
their dolls entirely by hand, while others might purchase a doll to decorate in
spiritually significant clothing, jewelry, and painted symbols. The importance
is not in how the doll is made or acquired, but how it is prepared for the work
it is intended to do.
Preparing spirit
dolls.
No matter whether a spirit doll is handmade or mass-produced,
it must be cleansed and prepared to remove all of the old energies attached to
it. After all, you probably do not want to bring the chaotic energy of a toy
store or hobby shop into your spirit work! This is usually done by physically
cleaning the doll using whichever method is safest -- often a bath of water
infused with cleansing herbs that is then properly disposed of at a crossroads.
Afterward, the doll may be fumed with incense, placed between lit candles, and
prayed over to ask a benevolent spirit to enter and inhabit the doll.
Often times, spirits are enticed with offerings like food
or flowers. A spirit may not choose to inhabit the doll at first, so the
process of praying and offering may have to be repeated. There are many ways to
tell whether or not a doll is inhabited. One involves holding your hands over
the doll, and asking the spirit to push them away. If your hands move, or you
feel a pressure, the doll is successfully inhabited.
Placing dolls in
the home.
Depending on the purpose of the doll, they may or may not
be placed on a home altar. Practitioners of Espiritismo and Santeria generally
place them elsewhere, often in significant spots in the home. Some may be
placed at mesitas, tables intended to receive offerings to the spirits housed
within the dolls. Dolls that are representations of a deity, like a Muñeca de
Ochun, may go on an altar dedicated to that deity.
Dolls empowered for a specific purpose may go on an altar
specifically dedicated to that -- for example, placing a doll empowered to draw
love on a love altar with rose quartz, a pink cloth, and fresh roses, or a
money-drawing doll on an altar with coins and gold candles.
Living with dolls.
It is important to remember that dolls are inhabited by
spirits. These spirits are by no means enslaved, nor are they like genies that
serve a master's every whim. They offer their help and guidance, and respect
must be paid to them in turn. Offerings of fruit, food, flowers, incense, and
liquor may be given to a doll, but some may prefer other things. While
preparing or working with a doll, a spirit worker may experience a distinct
feeling that the doll wants certain specific offerings.
Living and working with spirit dolls is a reciprocal
relationship. Though a spirit chooses to inhabit a doll, this might not be
permanent. Spirits are free to leave whenever they wish, and may do so if they
feel they have nothing else to offer you, or if they do not feel that they are
being treated well. Some very well-taken-care-of dolls have been in families
for generations, providing protection, guidance, and ancestral love through the
ages. Providing a good home, respect, and offerings to a doll can ensure that
you have a powerful spiritual ally.
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