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VOODOO
Voodoo magic has long been a staple part of Strip life. Since the shaman came and took a part of the city for their own, the ancient traditions have become a sort of long-lasting trend amongst denizens of the Big Stripper.
Shaman voodoo magic is much the same as it ever was: focusing on ancestral worship and natural magic. This traditional approach has blended with the technological advances in the Strip, and has since created a new offshoot of the original practices. Strip Voodoo embraces the machine as an integral part of life and death. Because of this, many mekker are embracing the shamans’ ways, and many shaman become inseparable from their technological devices, which they believe can be used by the loa as houses and gateways to this world.
VOODOO MAGIC
Voodoo shaman use the traditional mediums of chickens and other animals in the colours pertaining to the particular loa they serve. Vodoutown, in the northern end of the Strip, is decked out in voodoo iconography including innumerable veves and artefacts. Vodoutown is the perfect example of the blending of traditional voodoo practices with modern technologuy – the primal spiritualism mixing with the unfeeling machinery. Vodoutown is a decidedly eclectic place.
The magic the shaman practice focuses strongly on the concepts of death, fertility and life. The shaman can possess a body, or speak to the dead. The new ideas of the loa of the machine has spread rumours that some shaman have managed to join with machines in a much more spiritual way than crudely bolting on appendages, like other mekker.
The rest of the Strip tend to view Vodoutown and its shaman with a mix of morbid curiosity and ignorant fear. Rumours abound about the true nature of what is still considered a black magic. Tales of human sacrifice and other dark practices do nothing to extinguish these rumours.
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