January 31st Raggedy Submission`PunkinDoodleBoo

My magician is the crazed Dr. Winkle (you can see Dr. Winkle in my auction). Dr. Winkle was an English Illusionist who, in his youth, had travelled all over the world and was much renowned for his abilities to mystify. However, Dr. Winkle was aging and becoming unstable both in mind and in his craft. He looked for work, but was unable to secure a position. Rumors were circulating in London that Dr. Winkle was quite unreliable and quite mad. It seemed that Winkle was approaching a forced retirement. At what seemed to be the end of his career, Dr. Winkle was given the opportunity to follow a Burlesque Troup to New Orleans. He had secured a six month engagement. It was during that engagement, Mr. Winkle slipped further into madness and he began to sink deep in the bottle. He was asked to leave the performance troup. Depressed and miserable he found himself aimlessly wandering the bayou after an evening of heavy spirits.
It was here, deep in the Lousiana Bayou, that he became aquainted with a Voo Doo High Priestess. Mr. Winkle was taken in by the lovely young woman and she helped restore his sanity and health. Dr. Winkle found that he felt twenty years younger and in full capacity of his faculties. The two fell deeply love, in spite of their great difference in age. Dr. Winkle and the priestess lived together for many months. During that period Dr. Winkle learned quite a great deal about the black arts and he had improved his own craft considerably under her tutelage. He became was quite obsessed with his lover and the secrets of her craft.
However, Dr. Winkle began to grow restless and vain. He wanted to return to England and he envisioned a momentus return to the stage. Unfortunately, he became very aware that his lover's Creole and African descent made the match an improper one in the eyes of English Society. Dr. Winkle rejected her, and he quietly slipped away in the night.

In New Orleans he secured passage to the European continent and sailed on to London. When the she discovered his betrayl, the priestess was scorned and angry. She gathered his hair from her pillow and cast a horrible curse over Dr. Winkle. On the return trip to London town, Dr. Winkle grew quite mad, and quite ugly. His eyes began to bulge and his manner was quite odd. Every waking and sleeping hour he was haunted by thoughts of his beloved Priestess.

Winkle was asked by Mr. Pringle to create a doll for the charity auction and here is the doll he conjures.