| Hear and Obey (• • • • • Spirit, • • • • Life or • • • • Life, • • • • Mind) The Book of Crafts 26 |
| This dreaded bokor mojo traps a person's soul and compels obedience
from his corpse. Thus the zombi is born. Methods vary; most of
them involve a potion or powder mixed into the victim's food. Soon,
he painfully dies. His corpse is dug up, ritually prepared, and
revived to walk forever soulless. The ti-bon-age falls into
the spirit tempests, but the gros-bon-ange remains in a conduit --
usually a locket, witch bottle, animal or skull. For further
tortures, the Bata'a might threaten the conduit, mutilate the body, or
both. No worse a fate exists in voodoo lore. [Spirit magick traps the soul, tearing its essence in half, while Life magick kills the man and revives the corpse. The gros-bon-ange is destroyed forever -- even if some miracle worker manages to free the gros-bon-ange and restore the body to life, the victim remains empty, loveless and without compassion. A different version imprisions the subject's mind in his own rotting corpse, then yanks it around like a puppet until it falls apart. This fate is often reserved for informers, traitors and les idiots who ignore the bokor's warnings.] |