Vampire:
A person who has supposedly risen from the dead and who survives through a process of inducing willing or unwilling blood donations.
Vampire, Psychic:
A person or institution practicing the absorption of psychic energy to the point of actually damaging the people they attack. See Absorption and Tapping.
Variable:
A factor, as in an equation or experiment that changes from situation to situation and thus affects the outcome.
Varna:
In Tantra, the principle that sound is eternal and that every letter of the alphabet is a deity.
Veil of Unknowing:
A term used to indicate the boundary between manifest being and the unknowable source.
Virtues:
The magical potency or efficacy of herbs, stones, animals, and other things impressed upon them through the stars at the time of their creation by the deities.
Visualization:
The art of making real your visions. You envision something in your head so strongly and intently that it will become real in your mind, and thus your reality. It works. Used during ritual and spellcrafting, visualization is a, if not the most, valuable tool for the willworker.
Vodun or Voudoun:
(1) A West African word meaning “deity” or “power.”
(2) General term for a variety of eclectic religions and associated magical systems practiced throughout the Americas, consisting of mixtures of various African tribal beliefs with various Native American tribal beliefs, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Spiritualism, Theosophy and other systems (including Hinduism, Islam, Neopagan Witchcraft and anything else that seems useful). Different names include Candomble, Macumba, Santeria, Hoodoo, Voodoo and many others.
(3) In the United States and Canada, systems of thaumaturgic magic and religion practiced by people who are usually poor or uneducated. Therefore, see Black Magic.
Vortex Field:
An energy field causing rapid circular movement around an axis.