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From: glass@panix.com (Robert Scott Martin)
Subject: Re: Voodoo Dolls to Control Someone (was VODDOO ...)
Date: 5 Jun 2002 13:48:56 -0400

In article ,
blackman99   wrote:

[dolls go away]

>	additional materials necessary in the spell? Compelling
>        Oil? Commanding Oil? Calamus? where does the tradition
>        of associating Calamus root with domination derive?
>
>	 [Agrippa wasn't decisively behind the association,
>	   at least not in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
>           I found no references to Calamus in Crowley's writings. 
>           the hoodoo literature is full of it. perhaps it derives 
>           from something Germanic (for example see 
>		http://www.luckymojo.com/compelling.html
>		http://www.luckymojo.com/compelling.html ]

 
The Germans were indeed fans of this smelly plant (closely related to the
rushes that carried Moses to Egypt), but I'm also at a loss as to why it 
would be singled out for purposes of control. Mundane use revolves around 
its aromatic virtues (appetite, stimulant, insect repellant).

In theory, its use in puppetry could be analogous to that of eyebright and 
other herbal "fluid condensers" in Bardonian practice.

Crowley was likely most familiar through it in its role as a significant 
ingredient in canonical absinthe recipes of the era. There's talk it has 
both psychoactive and carcinogenic properties.