What does a doll with needles mean

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I saw that type at my grandma house


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It could just be a pin cushion for a seamstress, so probably doesn't mean anything. Have you asked your relatives if it had any significance?


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My immediate thought is voodoo dolls but thats a huge jump to conclusions, like other people said it could be a pin cushion. Has anything weird happened with the doll? Does it give you weird vibes?


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Regholdain wrote:It could just be a pin cushion for a seamstress, so probably doesn't mean anything. Have you asked your relatives if it had any significance?
I wanted to elaborate why I said this. My grandmother was a seamstress and made clothing for dolls. She had normal looking pin cushions and she also had small ones that were doll-like that she used to help figure out how the doll clothing would fit, in the small scale, before making the larger version for the doll. So it kind of depends on what the situation is. Things aren't always meta. :)


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I guess it depends on the kind of pins used(if they are pins or needles), the type of doll (if its in shape of human figure) and where the pins are placed... mostly pins are in the head and crotch, but can be elsewhere also.


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Because everyone else has already said the practical thing, what I am going to do is veer into the topic of voodoo dolls and what the pins are about in those dolls even if it has nothing to do with what's at your grandma's house.

Typically in doll/poppet magic we are making a caricature of the target we wish to influence (sometimes not, sometimes the doll is a spirit vessel but we will leave that for another topic).

This doll may be representing the mail man, for instance. A wacky example but bear with me. So say your mail man always forgets to ring the door bell when they have a parcel for you, you might stick a pin in the representative doll's head with the intention of getting this person to 'think' of that. Or say you have a crush on the mail man, maybe you will stick a pin in his heart with the intention to provoke him to feel something for you.

In common depictions we usually see people just inflicting pain with the pins/needles, but this isn't accurate unless that was your intention.

My mother made dolls and so you'd see dolls with pins from the sewing, but what's funny is she was also a witch so I couldn't necessarily tell as a child which was magical or not in that case. Lol.


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DO YOU HAVE A PIC OF THE DOLL? IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING ON. IF ANYTHING.


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