Changes: Bokor

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Bokors in the religion of vodoun are sorcerers or houngan (priests) for hire who are said to 'serve the loa with both hands', meaning that they can both practice dark magic and benevolent magic. Their black magic includes the creation of zombies and the creation of 'ouangas', talismans that house spirits.

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Report on Voodoo, from Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study (PDF) - Chalmers, David J.; Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz

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-'''Bokor'''s in the religion of [[vodoun]] are sorcerers or [[Wikipedia:houngan|houngan]] (priests) for hire who are said to 'serve the [[Wikipedia:loa|loa]] with both hands', meaning that they can both practice dark magic and benevolent magic. Their [[black magic]] includes the creation of [[zombies]] and the creation of 'ouangas', talismans that house spirits.
+'''Bokor'''s in the religion of [[vodoun]] are sorcerers or [[Wikipedia:houngan|houngan]] (priests) for hire who are said to 'serve the [[Wikipedia:loa|loa]] with both hands', meaning that they can both practice dark magic and benevolent magic. Their [[Wikipedia:black magic|black magic]] includes the creation of [[zombies]] and the creation of 'ouangas', talismans that house spirits.
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-Bokors are featured in many Haitian tales and are often associated with the creation of zombies by the use of a deadening brew or potion usually containing non-fatal poisons. This potion makes the drinker appear to be dead and thus is often buried; days later, the bokor will return for the "corpse" and force it to do his bidding, such as manual labor. It is akin to [[mind control]]. The person is, however, fully alive but in a detached state whereby he cannot control what he says or does; at this point, when the person has been "reanimated" from the grave, or at least is moving about working for the bokor, they can be termed "zombies." However, some zombie legends dispense with this more rational explanation, and have the bokor raise zombies from dead bodies whose souls have departed.
+*[http://larskaos.squarespace.com/storage/actacon/black-sorcery/baggrundsmateriale%20om%20zombier%20og%20voodoo.pdf Report on Voodoo, from ''Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study'' (PDF) - Chalmers, David J.; Department of Philosophy, ][[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]]
-Also, bokors are said to work with zombi/zombie astrals - souls or spirits which are captured in a [[Wikipedia:fetish|fetish]] and made to enhance the Bokor's power. Bokors normally work with Loas [[Wikipedia:Baron Samedi|Baron Samedi]], [[Wikipedia:Kalfou|Kalfou]], [[Wikipedia:Legba|Legba]] and [[Wikipedia:Simbi|Simbi]] (snake loa) plus in some cases they are said to work with [[Wikipedia:Grand Bois|Grand Bois]], the loa of the forest.
-Bokors are the same as "root workers" of voodoo and New Orleans voodoo. They are sometimes priests of a vodou house but not always. Some say there are born Bokors, ones that are born with a great ashe (power). A Bokor can be, by Christian terms, good or evil. Movies and books have made the Bokor along with Vodou (voodoo), seem to be dark and evil, but are highly misunderstood. Some say a Bokor can look like any everyday person and have high morals.
-==Sources==
-*[http://larskaos.squarespace.com/storage/actacon/black-sorcery/baggrundsmateriale%20om%20zombier%20og%20voodoo.pdf Report on Voodoo, from ''Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study'' (PDF) - Chalmers, David J.; Department of Philosophy, [[Wikipedia:University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California, Santa Cruz]]]
 ==See also==
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 {{Voodoo}}
 [[Category:Zombie Researchers]]
 [[Category:Voodoo]]