A Poppet is
a simply constructed doll of cloth or wax (sometimes, just a head on a peg)
used in the practice of sympathetic folk magic. The doll is meant to represent
a person, and may be decdorated with a person's clothes, filled with their
hair or nail clippings, etc. The practice is most often associated with voodoo,
but is actualy a western European practice.
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