Uses Of Human Bones, Do you use them? How? Options

So on my blog I wrote down how I had ordered a human skull for a working that I'm doing, and Kinj said how he wanted someone to post a topic on the use of human bones, so, I guess that would be me. Does anyone here use human bones in their work? If so, how? I use ground up human bone in my goofer dust recipe, and I know other people try to contact the spirit of that certain bone in Necromancy. In Candomble I've seen skulls used to carry out curses. Bones are VERY potent in works that have to do with affecting the human body. Who else uses human bones, and how do you use them in your work?

.::Sempre Bene::..::Chris::.
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A lot of cultures use sheep or camel knucklebones for divination. I don't know much beyond that, unfortunately.

There's a strain of African black magic that is essentially a form of necromancy. I forget exactly what it's called, but it's also practised a lot in Central and South America almost as an adjunct to Santeria, even though the two come from different sources. I want to say "Palo Mayombe" but I'm not sure if that's correct. Basically they select a human skeleton from a graveyard, place it in a casket filled with earth, and feed it. Then the spirit that was the original owner of the bones can act as a familiar/servitor.

I could be wrong, though, so don't quote me on this...

A lot of cultures use sheep or camel knucklebones for divination. I don't know much beyond that, unfortunately.

There's a strain of African black magic that is essentially a form of necromancy. I forget exactly what it's called, but it's also practised a lot in Central and South America almost as an adjunct to Santeria, even though the two come from different sources. I want to say "Palo Mayombe" but I'm not sure if that's correct. Basically they select a human skeleton from a graveyard, place it in a casket filled with earth, and feed it. Then the spirit that was the original owner of the bones can act as a familiar/servitor.

I could be wrong, though, so don't quote me on this...

That's "candomble" and I have practised some of it (never using bones or other things like that). Very very serious stuff so be careful- I'm serious. The person who taught me some of this died of cancer last year after falling in poverty and having two kids die before her in accidents. I'm planning to donate my body for research, though I'm afraid of some other stuff however (it being used for research on things such as cloning and other unethical things- who knows). Candomble is equated with Satanism in South America, and it's all about posession and consulting the spirits. You serve as a medium, you offer sacrifices (not human obviously), you use old mysticism coming from of course Africa. It comes from Babylon, all the way back. The names of pagan deities are even the same

Iemenjar=Ishtar

Oxala=Baal

annunaki in general= exus or more commonly orixas.Disembodied spirits, no distinction between human and demon/angel.


Candomble in it's Quimbanda version is very secretive and rarely taught to outsiders, in South America people who practice candomble/Umbanda are regarded as "Macumbeiros" (that's Voodoo practitioners with a negative intonation), and are usually regarded as inferior socially. Still, in Brazil for instance, the speaker of the house consults a "Mae de Santo" (that's a sort of pagan priestess, they are almost all women though men have no restrictions to it- sort of confirms that stuff on women being prone to witchraft, no offense there).

This post has been edited by r9999: Nov 24 2006, 10:42 PM