These are also known as poppets. “Doll” derives from similar sources as the word “idol” while “poppet” is related to “puppet.”
The stereotypical witch’s doll is made from wax and stuffed with pins to inflict pain and suffering. However, magic spell dolls may be crafted from a variety of materials and serve a variety of spell purposes. Wax dolls have been recovered from ancient Egypt, so they have certainly existed for a long time, but dolls are also formed from fabric, botanicals, wood, clay, and bone.
You can also easily make your own doll out of fabric, but if you don’t have time we have a cheap and easy ready made solution!
Dolls may be used in positive magic to:
- Heal disease
- Induce love
- Increase communication
- Money and success
- protection
- Unite the estranged
- Promote and enhance fertility
- cause injury, impotence, fatalities, pain, insanity, and a wide assortment of other human miseries.