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

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
Chapter Eight
Vodoun Mind Manipulation
Once I had set up and consecrated my altar through
the methods given in this text, the first Loa with which I
began to Work was Kalfu. I have always favored the
backdoors to the front gates, and so I called upon Kalfu to
show me these backdoors to power, the "off-center points"
of the Crossroads.
I learned within my first or second ritual calling of
Kalfu that he is extraordinarily adept in the art of
possession and mind manipulation. It must be understood
here that there are diverse methods and depths of
possession, and that in every type of ritual of influence or
control of another person, some type or degree of
possession takes place. Either the victim or the target of
the wanga will become possessed by the Loa, or more often
by the spirits that the Loa commands, or another person
will become possessed and controlled to carry out a
specific against towards or against the target.
Regardless of exactly who is immediately affected,
it is through the manipulation of the will and the mind of
another that many of the baneful works of Vodoun are
carried out. The Master Bocor is adept at mind control,
either remotely through ritual, or in person through various
methods of manipulation. In fact, many immigrants from
Haiti to the United States use these abilities as flagrantly as
possible: as stage illusionists or hypnotists. They put to use
that which they have learned on the adverse Tree from the
wicked Loa to affect only the surface of the audience's
collective mind, or the minds of specific volunteers.
Now, this is not to say that all hypnotists are
Vodoun Sorcerers, nor is it to say that hypnotism and
illusionism are facets of the Dark Arts. What we are
presenting here is simply the knowledge that some of the
best, most mysterious mentalists and hypnotists are, indeed,
well-trained in Sorcery, and that some of them are initiated
Vodoun Houngans. We are also presenting the idea that
some of what is presented as illusion for show is not
illusion at all, but is manipulation of the deepest sort,
mesmerism of the core inner realities of the witnesses.
This is all surface reality, however. The true reality,
the core reality of Vodoun mind manipulation can never be
observed with more clarity than in Haiti with those Master
Bocors who are blessed by the dark powers of Met Kalfu.
Kalfu teaches these secrets to those whom he
initiates, and has allowed some of these to be written and
passed on here, in this text, in this very chapter.
Mesmerism -
The automatic art of mesmerism is commonly and
erroneously confused with stage hypnotism. Whereas
hypnotism relies on bringing the subject into a sleep-like
trance and therein suggesting in affirmative wording,
whatever the supposed or suggested outcome is desired,