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Gris-Gris Bag -Pronounced 'Gree-Gree'

A charm made by a practitioner for the benefit of the person owning the bag.  Its contents are secret, symbolic and grant specific benefits to the bag's owner.   They often give the wearer luck or protection from specific types of harm or enhance their personal attributes in some fashion.

 Gris-Gris bags are traditionally two inches wide and three inches long. They are filled with a variety of items including: herbs, flower petals, shells, dirt, sand, pebbles, roots, nuts, coins, feathers, bones, fabric, charmscripts, religious articles and such. All Gris Gris bags should contain an odd number of ingredients including at least one personal item. Hair, skin, nail clippings, blood, body fluids, clothing, (worn and unwashed) etc.

Once prepared and sealed the Gris-Gris is anointed with a Conditioning Oil while the final incantation is uttered.

A Gris-Gris is uniquely personal and is kept hidden inside a person's clothing, often next to the skin. It is usually pinned inside the clothes, NOT hung around the neck.

It should be kept out of sight and NEVER be touched by another person. Touching by another often cancels the magic and the Gris-Gris must be discarded.

The Gris-Gris has no value to someone other then the person it was made for. However, a Boccur can employ the contents of a Gris – Gris in making a Poppet to affect the bag's owner.

In Game Terms the Gris-Gris can do any ONE of the following.


Enhance the wearer's:

Basic Strength

Basic Dexterity

Basic Speed

Non Physical Base Skill

Physical Base Skill


Bestow (while worn) the positive Traits of:

Gift of Languages.

Head for Heights.

Sense of Direction.

Keen Senses.

Strong.

Quick.

Speedy.

Strong Swimmer.

Musical Ability.

Artistic Ability.

Steady Hand.

Luck




Multiple Gris-Gris, including multiples that do the same thing, may be worn. The effects are cumulative.


Gris-Gris bags
Gris-Gris Bags

One common type of Gris-Gris is a
 
Gambler Gris-Gris - A favorite of gamblers, it is suppose to improve the wearer's luck at dice OR cards. (The charm is specific to the method of gambling.)   In both cases the bag is made of red flannel.  A Dice Gris-Gris contains, amongst other things, a lodestone, while the Card Gris-Gris has a shark's tooth in its contents.