HOODOO IN THEORY AND PRACTICE An Introduction to African-American Rootwork by Catherine Yronwode This is a book in progress. It is protected by copyright and it is not to be mirrored in whole or in part at other web sites, nor reprinted for distribution in printed, electronic, or broadcast formats. Below is a rough outline of the table of contents. Sections which are highlighted have been ...

MOJO Everybody in America seems to have heard the word mojo, but darned few white folks know what it means. Cecil Adams, author of The Straight Dope series that purports to give truthful answers to often-asked trivial questions, mumbled his way through theories that mojo means the sex act or a male sexual organ, even giving space to the drug-addled white singer Jim Morrison's self-applied ...

LAYING DOWN TRICKS AND DISPOSING OF RITUAL REMNANTS IN THE HOODOO TRADITION In African-American hoodoo practice, working a spell in which materials such as powders, roots, or herbs are deployed in specific locations is called laying down a trick. One of the basic aphorisms passed along from teachers to students is, Lay your trick, walk away, and don't look back. Looking back can have the effect ...

HOODOO This lengthy article has been subdivided into several sections: HOODOO: Definition of terms WHAT HOODOO IS: An African-American Folk-Magic Tradition WHAT HOODOO IS NOT: Voodoo, Santeria, etc. ADMIXTURES: European, Spiritist, and Kabbalist Influences on Hoodoo HOODOO: Definition of terms Hoodoo is an American term, originating in the 19th century or earlier, for African-American folk magic.

Exploration of Jamaican version of voodoo Shamanism called Obeah ...

Hoodoo - Conjuration - Witchcraft - Rootwork by HARRY MIDDLETON HYATT Harry Middleton Hyatt was an Anglican minister who collected folklore as a hobby. Raised in Quincy, Illinois, Hyatt received his M.A. and D.D. at Kenyon College and Oxford University. He served as assistant rector at the Church of the Holy Spirit in New York City from 1951 to 1965. After his retirement in 1965, he returned to ...

Contrary to popular belief, Hoodoo is an ancient African system of magiobotanical art and African folk magic, practiced by specialized priests born to special gods in West Africa. In America, during the religious persecution of Africans, Hoodoo was merely one of many powerful traditions forced to blend with Native American and european myths in order to survive.

Superstitions & Folklore of the South Charles W. Chesnutt DURING A recent visit to North Carolina, after a long absence, I took occasion to inquire into the latter-day prevalence of the old-time belief in what was known as conjuration or goopher, my childish recollection of which I have elsewhere embodied into a number of stories. The derivation of the word goopher I do not know, not whether any ...

The Invisible Culture: Hoodoo in Georgia and South Carolina *By:-Nicole McCleod Legends of spirits, root doctors, charms and hexes flourish throughout Georgia and South Carolina. According to Blue Roots: African-American Folk Magic of the Gullah People, by Roger Pinckney, the hoodoo stories that widen eyes and cause arm hairs to stand on end are not fictional narratives told around campfires, ...

A regional conference with the Association for the Study of Dreams and the Sancta Sophia Seminary in Sparrow Hawk Village, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

LUCK-BALLS Mary Alicia Owen AUNT MYMEE had been in what Granny designated as a turr'ble takin', the cause of which was the loss of her most powerful fetich, the luck-ball she had talked to and called by her own name as if it were her double. Her superstitious terrors when she discovered the loss were really pitiable; her overbearing manner towards the other negroes quite forsook her, her limbs ...