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Voodoo doll

A voodoo doll is an effigy that is typically used for the insertion of pins. Such practices are found in various forms in the magical traditions of many cultures around the world.

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Depictions in culture

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Voodoo doll

Nodes28
Edges27
Triples71
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.071429
Components1

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Voodoo doll

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related to 20th-century link with Voodoo · 42
Voodoo doll → Afro-Caribbean, Black, Black Bagdad, British, By, Caribbean, Child's Play, Creepshow, Disney, Doom, Eastwick, Frog, Haiti, Haitian, Haitian Vodou, How, In, In John Houston Craige's, Indiana Jones, It
related to Sources · 26
Voodoo doll → African Figural Ritual Magic, An Artifactual Investigation, Ancient Greece, Armitage, Binding, Burying, Christopher, Classical Antiquity, European, Evil, Faraone, Forces, In Ceri Houlbrook, JSTOR, Magic, Natalie, Natalie Armitage, Oxbow, Oxford, Popular Beliefs
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Voodoo doll → effigy that is typically used for the insertion of pins

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Voodoo dollis aeffigy that is typically used for the insertion of pins0.90text
Victor Halperin's 1932 White Zombieinstance ofrepresentations of Haitian Vodou in works0.80text
Jacques Tourneur’s 1943 I Walked with a Zombie also involves the use of the dollsinstance ofrepresentations of Haitian Vodou in works0.80text
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooThe0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooVoodoo0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooWestern0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooBlack0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooAfro-Caribbean0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooUnited States0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooIn John Houston Craige's0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooBlack Bagdad0.60section
Voodoo dollrelated to 20th-century link with VoodooThe Arabian Nights Adventures0.60section

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