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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
Arthur E. Waite 

Tarot brings that side to me, the spiritual side. Somehow it is the tool that reminds me that I'm not alone, that there are energies surrounding me in a plane which is not material... and at the end we are not just dust in space.~ Eowyn

The Guatemalan Worry People

 In the rural Mayan regions of Guatemala, weaving cloth, especially striped cotton cloth, is a major occupation -- and wherever cloth is manufactured and sewn into clothing, there are bound to be scraps. So, just as African Americans devised mojo bags from scraps of the red flannel used for winter undergarments during the 19th century, so do the Guatemalan Indians make small magical bags out of their famous striped cloth. But what's inside these bags are not fetishes, amulets, charms, or religious medals -- inside the bag you will find six tiny dolls made from little splinters of wood and bits of cloth and thread.

These are Guatemalan Worry Dolls -- and their name indicates their use: When a person in the family are worried or frightened of things or events, they present him or her with a bag of Worry Dolls. The person is given one Worry Doll each night and instructed to tell one trouble or fear to the doll, then to place the doll under the pillow and go to sleep. The next morning the when the person wakes up, the Worry Doll is gone from the bed, taking that worry with it. A course of six days of worry-removal is usually sufficient to restore the average person to happiness.

Where do the Worry Dolls disappear to?

We think they go off to live in Tooth Fairy land -- but we are not quite sure. 
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