who’d-a-thunk a sub-par wes craven flick from the 80’s would lead me to items of interest? after watching serpent and the rainbow recently i went off in search of voodoo and found veves. quote: In vodou (Voodoo) practice, veves are intricate symbols of the loas (gods), and are used in rituals. each loa has his or her own complex veve, which is traced on the ground with powdered eggshell or cornmeal prior to a ritual. the ability to draw a veve correctly is considered to be the skill of an initiate. the better drawn a veve is the more powerful in invocation it is. see below for a few examples

Very cool.  My first thought was how cool some of those would be as tattoos, but then I quickly realized what a bad idea that would be.  Dont want no voodoo spirits inscribed on my skin thank you very much.

only if you’d sworn your allegiance to one, joe (that’s basically how it works; a loa can be thought of as a patron saint on steroids). I saw a great documentary about vodou a couple years ago, but don’t recall the title.