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miracledude.livejournal.com[There's a moment of static, as obviously Declan still isn't anywhere near being ACTIVELY GOOD with technology, then the image of an extremely homely looking office comes on screen. The shelves are cluttered, the desk is cluttered, even the chair behind the desk is cluttered, and the person holding the camera has to pick his way through the odd pile of clutter inhabiting the floor in order to get to the one uncluttered surface in the room.
Which, upon closer inspection, is actually part of the clutter. Instead of actually finding a clear surface to do this on, Declan has just found a large, hardback book, and is now using that in lieu of an actual desk. On the back of the book, is a small red cloth bag.]
Okay, so what you are looking at right now? Is what in African Folk magic is known as a "Gris-Gris", it's a talisman, usually worn to guard the wearer against evil, or to undo hexes, but also for things like good luck in love, in gambling, or, well, as time has gone on these have been made too solve just about any problem you can think of.
[Have a close up on the bag]
Ususally what goes into them is a lodestone, that's like, a strong natural magnet used to draw in good luck, or to bring whatever it is you've made the bag for, and, in addition to that? You'll find tokens of whatever it is the maker wants to draw in, so like fools gold, or... I don't know, like, seeds if you want a good harvest or something else appropriate. Anyway, one of my students got this one slipped into her desk, turns out it was full of graveyard dirt. She was doing a project on the cultural differences between West African hoodoo and the New Orleans strand, turns out her ex-boyfriend thought it'd be a really funny prank to try and freak her out with.
[He clearly isn't impressed with this. The Camera is finally set down.]
Anyway, she came to me swearing that it whispers in the night, and seeing as This university is somewhat less accommodating than the last one I worked at when it comes to letting me do this kind of thing with the good equipment? It looks like I'm stuck using this. Uhh, just so you didn't think I was being really creepy by filming a bag for the next twelve hours.
Which, upon closer inspection, is actually part of the clutter. Instead of actually finding a clear surface to do this on, Declan has just found a large, hardback book, and is now using that in lieu of an actual desk. On the back of the book, is a small red cloth bag.]
Okay, so what you are looking at right now? Is what in African Folk magic is known as a "Gris-Gris", it's a talisman, usually worn to guard the wearer against evil, or to undo hexes, but also for things like good luck in love, in gambling, or, well, as time has gone on these have been made too solve just about any problem you can think of.
[Have a close up on the bag]
Ususally what goes into them is a lodestone, that's like, a strong natural magnet used to draw in good luck, or to bring whatever it is you've made the bag for, and, in addition to that? You'll find tokens of whatever it is the maker wants to draw in, so like fools gold, or... I don't know, like, seeds if you want a good harvest or something else appropriate. Anyway, one of my students got this one slipped into her desk, turns out it was full of graveyard dirt. She was doing a project on the cultural differences between West African hoodoo and the New Orleans strand, turns out her ex-boyfriend thought it'd be a really funny prank to try and freak her out with.
[He clearly isn't impressed with this. The Camera is finally set down.]
Anyway, she came to me swearing that it whispers in the night, and seeing as This university is somewhat less accommodating than the last one I worked at when it comes to letting me do this kind of thing with the good equipment? It looks like I'm stuck using this. Uhh, just so you didn't think I was being really creepy by filming a bag for the next twelve hours.
