March 4, 2010 — -- After a long stretch of unemployment in 2009, Mindy, an office manager, used a voodoo doll to try boosting her chances of getting hired. Dee, a New York communications ...

In Voodoo, a poppet or effigy (what many call a "voodoo doll") can be used to represent a person, with pins or other actions intended to influence them. But not all uses of these dolls are malevolent.

As part of the study, some were then allowed to take out their job frustrations on a makeshift voodoo doll carrying their boss’s name by sticking pins, burning it with candles and pinching it ...

The doll is believed to be cursed Credit: Wikipedia. Robert the Doll was gifted to Robert Eugene Otto in 1906 by his family’s Bahamian maid, who is believed to have practised black magic and voodoo.

A community is in crisis after more than 30 of its villagers have been 'possessed by the devil ' after discovering a voodoo doll. Residents living in Santa Tomas, close to Waspan, in the south of ...