A Poppet is a Maiden or Mother Goddess doll. It is used in harvest or other festivals to symbolize the fertility of the Earth and/or Goddess. In some instances, dolls are used to represent the male gender instead of the female (corn dollies, scarecrows and the Wicker Man of the Druids are examples). Poppets are believed to be infused with life by their makers. The doll is a “little life,” symbolic of the inner person. Corn dollies are a form of straw work associated with harvest customs. ... Scarecrows in a rice paddy in Japan A scarecrow is a device (traditionally a mannequin) that is used to discourage birds like crows from disturbing crops. ... A wicker man is burned as part of possibly traditional Gaelic or possibly neo-pagan festivities, especially Beltane, a rite of spring. ... Druidry or Druidism was the religion of the ancient druids, the priestly class in ancient Celtic and Gallic societies through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in the British Isles. ...
Poppets may also be made to represent a person, for casting healing, fertility, or binding spells on that person. Such dolls, associated with witchcraft, may be made from a carved root, grain or corn shafts, fruits such as an apple or lemon, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or a cloth image stuffed with herbs. It is intended that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject. This use of poppets is known as “image magic." They are also known as Poppits and Pippies. Sometimes these dolls are mistakenly called "voodoo dolls". See Vodou: Myths and misconceptions. Witchcraft, in various historical, religious and mythical contexts, is the use of certain kinds of supernatural or magical powers. ... The effigy of John Gower in Southwark Cathedral, London. ... Look up magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based religious tradition with primary roots among the Fon-Ewe peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as...
"To some others at these times he [the Devil] teacheth how to make pictures of wax or clay. That by the roasting thereof, the persons that they beare the name of, may be continually melted or die away by continually sickness."
Wax figures could also be used to counter witchcraft and turn the magic back on the caster. James VI of Scotland and James I of England and Ireland (occasionally known as King James the Vain) (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland. ...
A poppet valve is a valve consisting of a hole, usually round or oval, and a tapered plug, usually a disk shape on the end of a shaft also called a valve stem.
Poppet valves are used in many industrial process from controlling the flow of rocket fuel to controlling the flow of milk.
A number of designs of locomotive poppet valve system were tried, the most popular being the Italian Caprotti valve gear, the British Caprotti valve gear (an improvement of the Italian one), the German Lentz rotary-cam valve gear, and two American versions by Franklin, their oscillating-cam valve gear and rotary-cam valve gear.
Poppets are believed to be infused with life by their makers.
Poppets may also be made to represent a person, for casting healing, fertility, or binding spells on that person.
Such dolls, associated with witchcraft, may be made from a carved root, grain or corn shafts, fruits such as an apple or lemon, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or a cloth image stuffed with herbs.
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