The Spider & The Green Butterfly: Vodoun Crossroads Of Power (The Complete Works of E.A. Koetting Book 5) by Koetting E.A

Author:Koetting, E.A. [Koetting, E.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Become A Living God
Published: 2018-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Powerful Concoctions

Chapter Seve n

Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg and owlet's wing, for a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.

—William Shakespeare, Macbeth

T HE Houngan and the Bocor have received from the Loa, from the spirits, and from their journeys to the backside of the Tree of Life many combinations, both of physical materials with one another, and of spiritual matter with physical matter, which produce a startling reaction in the physical environment and reality of the Sorcerer. Like so many aspects of Vodoun, our Western culture has created fantasies around the actuality of these rites of power that they now resonate with an awkward silliness to the aspiring serious practitioner. This erroneous mindset is instantly overcome when real experience washes away the daydream spell cast by the illusionists working on the various stages of literature and media. These combinations of matter with matter with spirit deliver a blow so powerful to this “concrete and unchangeable reality” that they could not possibly be real. Perhaps that which is “real” is more malleable than we had assumed.

Blowing Powder

When I first read over one of the chapters that Baron DePrince had sent me which included a few different blowing powders, my eyes stared at the pages as if they were empty. I had heard the myths of Voodoo Magicians blowing powders on their victims to cause immediate unconsciousness, like a tribal version of chloroform, and had possibly seen some malnourished, loin-clothed man doing something of that sort in a bad horror film at some point in my life, but what I read was beyond the superstitions that I had imagined real, Haitian Vodoun would contain.

My first question for DePrince was quite unoriginal, and in shocking contrast with my usual reliance on the spiritual: does the power of the powders reside in their psychotropic qualities alone or is it a combination of the psychotropic and the metaphysical which cause the powders to work as they do?

DePrince laughed as if I had just told him a well-known and well-worn joke. When he realized that I was not laughing along with him, he collected himself and informed me that none of the powders contained any ingredient which possesses a high enough concentration of psychotropic chemicals to have any effect.

“There is no toxicology involved, my friend,” he said. “There is much more to Vodoun than meets the eye. We’re just getting started.”

Quite a few scientists have traveled to Haiti, armed with American dollars and the names of a few popular Port-au-Prince sidewalk Houngans in attempts to procure these mysterious powders and concoctions with the hope of synthesizing the formulas in well-lit laboratories safe within the United States’ borders. Paying a Ti Houngan, or a “little Houngan” to introduce them to another, more powerful Sorcerer and then paying

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