Voodoo Black Magic Pacts
The Ba Moun Ceremony
In Haitian Voodoo and Voodoo, there is a ceremony called the Ba Moun or “give-man” ceremony. This is performed by the Bocor, or professional sorcerer, as opposed to the Houngan, who serves the community.
Whereas in the European tradition, the magus gives his soul in payment to the demon, in the Afro-Caribbean version, the person making the agreement can give other people’s souls.
This is believed to be a more satisfying arrangement.
The catch to this is that he must give from his own family and friends. In other words, it must be a real sacrifice of someone he loves.
Harsh as this sounds, if you think about it, you realize that this is far from uncommon in the pursuit of ordinary ambition. Say that a man is frustrated with his life. He has been honest and worked hard and gotten nowhere. He is at the end of his rope. He goes to the house of the Bocor and tells him these things, and in the way of such conversations from time immemorial, he says he would give “everything” to satisfy his desires.
So the Bocor calls upon the Petro family of spirits, which are very close to the concept of infernal demons, and the spirit speaks to the supplicant.
He demands a written agreement signed in the man’s blood, which is placed in a govi, or ritual jar, and tells the man that on a certain day, once a year, he must choose one of his loved ones to die as a sacrifice to the spirit.
In return the spirit will satisfy all of the man’s desires and ambitions.
If this is agreed to, one person a year will mysteriously sicken and die to satisfy the spirit until the day comes when there is either no one left that the man can give, or he can no longer bear to commit such an act. This time the bargainer himself is taken.
It is an eerie coincidence that one of the Petro spirits that operate these pact agreements is called Bosu Tricorne—the three-horned god.
Look at the illustration of Lucifuge Rofocale, the infernal maker of pacts, and you will see what we mean.
The Seven African Powers
Most recently, popular legend has it that Fidel Castro won his revolution, not because of superior strategy, but because he had an alliance with the Seven African Powers of Santeria.
Offerings
The demons are offered such things as: service, devotion, publicity, artistic embodiment, or participation in sexual or other acts by means of temporarily entering the magician,
They are also given various kinds of offerings which can range from the traditional blood sacrifice, butchered meats, various liquors, incense or tobacco.