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Va-Va-Voodoo: Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love

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I wasn't expecting much when I picked up this title. The author is a close friend of Ross Heaven who wrote the abortion that is 'Vodou Shaman' and the cover screams tacky.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a range of magical techniques that would be useful to women (and men!) in a variety of love situations.
The contents of this book actually falls distinctly into the hoodoo category in my opinion.
It is hoodoo but with the use of the Lwa - in a very non-trad way. When I say use I mean USE which some practitioners who have spent years building up relationships with their spirits and living vodou may find offensive. I just wish she wouldn't keep asserting that it is 'real voodoo', there is no reglemen here. It might pass in New Orleans but it certainly wouldn't it Haiti.

Contrary to the authors constant assertion that she is giving away huge 'voodoo' secrets, which she most certainly is not, pretty much everything here can be found in print elsewhere - mistakes included.
The idea that the names of plants contain hints as to what they are used for being a big secret..? I'm sorry but you'd have to have been born last week not to have worked that one out.

So to sum up; if you're looking for a book that will tell you anything about 'voodoo' then look elsewhere. If you're looking for a fun look at love magic then this would be a good place to start.

The person who gave this book a one star is silly. Just because you expected this to be a cheesey pie Wicca book and it wasn't doesn't make it a bad book. This book does give a primer into Voodoo. Voodoo (and Hoodoo) is a very basic religion. That being said blood is just a part of it. The book lead me to a better path that made sense to me. A religion that doesn't worry about right and wrong so much as happiness vs. unhappiness. A religion where a love spell isn't a bad thing.