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Hello and Welcome!
So you've decided to
see what I have to offer...
You have found my
virtual Gris-Gris bags!
What is a gris-gris
bag?
Gris-gris (pronounced
"gree-gree") comes from the French word gris which means grey, hence a
combination of black (negative) and white (positive) magic. In New Orleans,
positive charms were called "juju," and negative were called "mojo"
-- terms which emanated from African tribal beliefs. Gris-gris was the most
powerful of all charms and also the most expensive, and it could be used for
good or ill.
Gris-gris was a potion of herbs and natural or decaying matter, from the mundane
to the bizarre, sometimes including powdered brick, ochre, cayenne pepper,
fingernail clippings, human hair, and animal skin (usually reptilian) -- all
tossed into a small leather bag. Thankfully, this mixture was not ingested, but
was worn around the neck from a string, or left near the intended object of the
charm. It supposedly brought either good or bad luck, depending on what you
believed in. The real power of the gris-gris lay in the psychology of the object
of the charm. The power of suggestion
Many witches and pagans
carry gris-gris bags to draw energy for their magical goals
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Here are a few
simple rules
to adopt my Virtual Gris-Gris Bags...
please abide by
them...
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You must
"right click" the gris-gris bag of your choice and save it
to your hard drive
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Do Not Steal
Bandwidth!
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You must use
this 
logo
and link it to www.tatianna.net/grisgris-bags.htm
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You may NOT
change my gris-gris bags in any way or claim them as your own.
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That's it!
Now choose a Gris-Gris Bag
and enjoy!
Special request gris-gris
bags can be made,
Just mail me and
ask!
Voodoo - Monkey Island
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