E. A. Koetting and Baron DePrince - The Spider and The Green Butterfly

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
Loa and to practice their religion, doing so is at the risk of
the individual practitioner entirely. The information given
both in this chapter and in the whole of this text is that
which has, until now, been practiced in Haiti itself, passed
by oral tradition alone from Master to student. The ways of
Haiti are not the ways of the western world, and this must
be remembered at all times when practicing Vodoun
outside of the island of Haiti.
The Powders -
There are very few Magickal powders which are
employed by blowing them into the face of another, but
those few are powerful beyond explanation. Once the
powder has either been inhaled by the victim or contacts
their skin, the enchantment begins to work instantly and
automatically.
The first of these that we will present is the very
same Expedition Powder used to destroy the life of
DePrince's former client, John, and which would have
surely killed him had he not sought out the help of a Master
Houngan when he had. When the Bocor blows the
Expedition Powder in the face of his enemy, thousands of
spirits of the dead travel with it and begin to work upon the
victim of the curse day and night, consistently bringing
death within a year. To gain the favor of the Ghedes,
however, is never an easy task, especially when such a
powerful effect is desired.
There are those in Haiti, and even some in the
United States, who will try to sell their versions of this
Expedition Powder. Such powders for sale are not the
authentic item; if they were, the possessors would never
part with them.
The Ghedes, Baron Samedi, Baron La Croix, and
Baron Cimitere must be called down into the cemetery in
which the implements will be gathered. The Veve of
Samedi can be made over the necessary graves, and He can
be called down in those places to offer up the spirits needed
and to allow the desecration of the dead that this Working
demands. This must occur on Saturday, the day of Saturn,
the day of death and of ancient secrets, at ten o'clock at
night, the hour in that day in which the dead possess the
most power over this realm.
The skull of an infant, having died in stillbirth, must
be unearthed, and in a mortar must be ground to powder.
This must be mixed, and further pulverized with dirt taken
from the grave of a person whose passing was particularly
violent, and whose spirit still remains in terror and unrest
resultantly. The closer to the rotting body that this dirt is
obtained from, the more potent it will be. Place this
powder in ajar, seal it closed, and on the nearest new moon
bury the jar near the headstone from which the grave soil
was taken, that of the victim of a violent death. There it
must remain until the following new moon, during which
time the powder itself will draw like a magnet the spirits of
the dead to it, those who are wreaked with suffering and
misery and are eager to pass this on to the living. When
you retrieve the jar of powder from the grave on the
following dark moon, the simple presence of such an evil
powder, even sealed inside of ajar, is sickening.
Wearing gloves so that the infectious powder does
not touch your skin, blow the Expedition Powder into the
face of your enemy without warning and without word.
Within one year, your victim's death will be secured.
The next blowing powder that we will give is once
again extraordinarily potent, to the degree of requiring an
admonition against using it at all. This powder, once
inhaled by the victim, will cause him or her to be sexually