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

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
constantly with each Loa, year after year. Others - those
given below - are known by all initiates of the Vodoun
current to be effective philters for Vodoun power.
It must here be stated, without a shiver in conviction
that the power of these concoctions, both those used in the
wanga and in the powders, lies not in the victim's belief in
them. In fact, the efficacy of this Magick does not even
depend upon the belief or faith of the Operator. It works
because it works. These are secrets that have been given to
the Vodoun Master Houngans, not from a book on
psychological conditioning or self-help hypnosis, but from
the Loa, and from the Tree whose roots and trunk are sunk
into the earth, but whose branches lift far up into Guinea;
from the spheres on those branches that lead up, from the
black gateway into the backside of the Tree, and the
descending caverns back down the rotting side of the Tree,
until the Houngan has returned back down the trunk to his
place in Haiti with knowledge that is certainly not of this
world.
asked to enter the concoction, to travel with it in power.
The specific requests are also given, and are often put into
writing and combined with the ingredients of the wanga.
The enchantments caused by the materials used in
the wanga are not the effects of the materials themselves,
but are the effects of the spirit within the matter - the
essence of the particular Loa that resides within. A close
communion with the Loa is needed to discern which one to
call upon for certain wanga. The divinations performed at
the beginning of any Operation will also grant you this
information.
When you have discerned exactly which Loa you
will be calling upon for the specific result needed, the same
concordance given for the powders can be referred to,
gathering together herbs, stones, and even organs
associated with the Loa.
These are to be combined after calling down the
Loa through its Veve and through any sacrifice required.
Once the physical ingredients are combined, the Loa is