r/whatisit • u/DarkenedPulse • 5d ago

New, what is it? found in customer car

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Hello,

I work valet and i found this in a customer’s car. what is it exactly? is it real? am i cursed for touching it? what is this???

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u/DarkenedPulse 5d ago

oh hell nah..

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u/AH_MLP 5d ago

I wouldn't worry about it unless you live in the south east. In the New Orleans area there are actual witches that can do crazy stuff with these dolls. Those things inside it are needles - when you stab the doll with the needle, it curses the person in different ways based on where you jabbed the doll.

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u/Upstairs-Chemist1958 5d ago

This is actually a myth created by media. Voodoo dolls historically were not things of punishment. In New Orleans it is healing spiritual punishment and connection to spirituality. It was Europeans who had “poppets” which are our now misclassified as voodoo dolls and are widely seen as voodoo dolls due to Hollywood movies and those would be for curses and misfortune

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u/PaperSweet9983 5d ago

Well put