As hard as it may to believe it, childbirth wasn’t always the domain of hospitals and OB/GYNs. As recently as a couple of generations ago, people wouldn’t enlist the help of a doctor, but rather that of a midwife. New York City began licensing midwives in the year 1716, and even in those pre-Industrial Revolution days (when bloodletting was all the rage), the birth success rate ran at about...

A witch doctor often refers to healers in some third world regions, who use traditional healing rather than contemporary medicine. They use a different kind of energy to show people that they are believable. Witch doctors are those people who believe that God gave them a special power to heal other people’s sickness. Some of them treat there self as God already. But for me, they are just an ordinary...

Occultism is the study of occult or hidden wisdom. This was generally associated with secret knowledge and practices dealing with the supernatural for the purpose of obtaining personal power. Some occult practices rely on demons or “spirits” to achieve their goals. And it is now rapidly increasing throughout the world. The Occult is a term meaning knowledge of the hidden. it’s a Latin word...

Voodoo, why uses a dolls? Voodoo dolls are an often misunderstood tradition associated with the Voodoo religion and forms of Hoodoo .Voodoo dolls were used in voodoo practice. The popular notion is that they are used to attack an enemy. It is used to curse enemy, it is a revenge symbol to those who believes in voodoo dolls. Because they believe that voodoo dolls can cause pain to an enemy if it has...

Shinto means “The Way of the Gods. This word was adopted from the written Chinese meaning gods or spirits. Today it is now thought as an indigenous religion of Japan. In this belief it does not have a founder or sacred scriptures like the sutras or the bible. Propaganda and preaching are not common either, because Shinto is deeply rooted in the Japanese people and traditions. They called there...

OS stands for Occult Symbols and Animi is an animating spirit. Explore the spirit world through ancient Shinto teachings and rituals.