Originally posted by keith44spl:
Originally posted by wildfiresrozes:
Now that place had some bad juju.
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I been to some of them places
Outstanding post!
Many Thanks,
Su Amigo,
Dave
Hell, you must have met the Vodoo Princess.
<span class="ev_code_RED">Warning-way off the wall thread drift</span>
Remember those old Tarzan movies and the Ramar of the Jungle TV shows when the gun bearers wouold throw down their stuff and run away screaming "Bad JuJu Bwana-no go there"
Cajun Lawyer-
Oh, I recall Ramar (Jon Hall) and his friend the professor (Ray Montgomery?) very well. As a kid, that was one of my favorite TV shows. I loved Ramar's Mannlicher rifle, which was also used by another of my boyhood heroes, Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. I eventually bought one, a carbine in 8X56mm.
I found a DVD at a half price store recently, and it has three episodes of the TV show.
I tried to make out the revolvers in the shows, and think one was was a Colt New Service, maybe the M-1917 variant. May possibly be an Official Police, but it looked too big, and the frame contours are slightly different.
In general, juju refers to African magic, usually of a highly negative order.
And I don't sneer at it, either. At the time of his death, Robert C. Ruark was Travel Editor for, "Playboy." He was a widely experienced hunter, and the ONLY US journalist and popular author who has been honest about African politics. His novel, "Something of Value" is well worth seeking out. Don't settle for watching the movie version, which was watered down, and which stars black activist Sidney Potier along with Rock Hudson.
Anyway, Ruark and a white hunter friend, Harry Selby, I think, were hunting one day and were told that a local witch doctor could help them find an elephant with big ivory. I suppose they thought it was a lark, so they paid the guy, and he went into his medicine hut and made the smoke and rolled the bones.
He emerged to tell the bwanas that if they went to a certain place at a certain time, they would find three big elephants and which one they would want to shoot. They would see no other elephants on that whole safari. He had seen this in his hallucenogenic trance. The way the "medicine bones" rolled also told him things, he said.
A little doubtful, they took his advice. They saw exactly the same elephants that he had described, and shot the big one. And they saw no others on that trip! Ruark wrote about this adventure in a 1965 issue of, "Playboy", shortly before he died. The article had a lot of nifty safari gear, too, before the Hefners went anti-gun, to be in fashion in California.
Of course, sometimes, witch doctors err. One had a vision that they should kill all Zulu cattle, which would be replaced with magical cattle from their version of Heaven. The tribe nearly starved, and that wizard was killed, if memory serves.
If you would like to read some interesting facts about voodoo, which is different from other African withcraft practices, get the late Ian Fleming's novel, "Live and Let Die." It was written in the early 1950's, before PC became the rule. He could be much more candid in what he wrote. He used a traveller's book to have James Bond review the practice of voodoo, which his opponent, the first great Negro criminal was into, to control other blacks. Very interesting read. Be sure to read the Ode to the Drum Witch...
Some members here obviously have difficulty in reading comprehension, so I hasten to repeat that this was outside data that Fleming inserted into his book, not his own fiction. He wasn't making that stuff up; just quoting it.
The fact that many still believe in it is more than a little disturbing. I imagine that such cities as New Orleans have active voodoo cults.
Did anyone else here see the episode of, "The Lost World", where the Voodoo Priestess kidnapped Marguerite, Veronica, and Lord Roxton?
That was a hoot, but a scary episode. Fortunately, Prof. Challenger and the American reporter, Ned Malone, saved the others. And Roxton was pretending to be drugged, and got busy with the machete that he had been given to slay Marg. and Vee. Voodoo Queen's outfit was disliked by most women fans. I rather liked it!
That show also had a good episode where another white queen was using a cave with halucinatory fungus in it to create horrible visions. Her own follwers killed her after the explorers found a way to use that against her. Good show!
Saw a really creepy episode of, "Silk Stalkings", where a male voodoo cult leader made some bad juju to control the woman he wanted.
Real voodoo and other African bad magical practices are more than a little alarming. Some people really believe in that stuff, and may be a few fish short on their stringers. To many blacks and Hispanics, this craft is part of their culture. Even some whites seem to be involved.
I am hoping that Wildfirerozes isn't one of them! But I'm going to see if my gun dealer has any silver bullets, just in case, and I'm getting a silver cross, too! What's good for werewolves may work on other bad guys trying to use the spiritual world for evil.
Anyone know which caliber of wooden cross I should get, in case a vampire shows up? I just don't know who all Rozie's friends may be.
All I know for sure is that she doesn't like me looking at the SI Swimsuit Issue...Of course, what model Ana Beatriz Barros does with her sultry eyes in some issues of that publication and in her appearances for Victoria's Secret is definitely some kind of magic. Ana Beatriz is unquestionably an enchantress!
T-Star