People have to understand those spiritual workers have to charge a fair amount they deem worthy of their services.
Yes, reputable workers and readers charge or accept donations because our work must have an energy exchange. Second, the spells, readings, and healings we perform on behalf of our...
Sodium Carbonate with ultramarine or aniline pigment
Hoodoo practitioners use laundry bluing, especially brands such as Reckitt's Crown Blue squares and Mrs. Stewart's liquid bluing or hand-made Mexican blue anil balls. Others prefer to create their own by mixing washing soda and synthetic ultramarine...
Spiritual foot-washing is a traditional Christian Hoodoo rite offered by conjure workers to lighten mental, emotional, and spiritual loads and cleanse one from crossed conditions and messes thrown by enemies. Some major Protestant churches, like The Church of God and Saints of Christ, Primitive...
alpinia galangal
Also known as Chewing John, Court Case Root, Thai Ginger, or simply Galangal, this root is a premier herbal remedy widely believed to help win court cases and remove jinxes.
Rootworkers advise their clients to chew a galangal root, retain it in the mouth while praying, swallow the...
Aqua Ammoniae
Also called Hartshorn Water, Spirits of Hartshorn, or simply (inaccurately) Ammonia, it is a solution of Ammonia in water, denoted by symbols NH3(aq). Ammonia is called water or spirit of Hartshorn because of the experimentation of the early chemists in the 17th century...
I am unsure where this belief started, but New Orleans is not the center for Hoodoo. I just want to clarify that what is primarily practiced in New Orleans IS NOT even Hoodoo. Most of what is practiced in New Orleans is called Louisiana Voodoo (and it's not the same thing as Hoodoo). Another Christian...
There is no such thing as Satanic Hoodoo. Satanists do not call on the blood of Jesus Christ, pray and devote to the Judeo-Christian God, and recite scripture to empower their magical and spiritual work.
The 'Devil' that we, Hoodoo practitioners, invoked in our works differs from Satan. The devil...
laurus nobilisLaurel is an ancient symbol of success, triumph, and victory; many old rootworkers brew their leaves into tea to dissolve Crown of Success bath crystals or mix Crown of Success oil. This spiritual bath is done by washing oneself upward (from feet up to head) to draw success and good fortune...
Ritually fixing and enchanting client's gold wristwatch for his Steady Job spell.
Charmed jewelry pieces in Hoodoo practice have origins dating back to ancient civilizations of Africa, where people make necklaces, bracelets, and anklets out of organic beads and other curious objects in their region. Beadwork...
First of all, I would like to make it clear that this religious spirit work or working with other deific spirits mainly occurs to those who are Folk Catholic Hoodoo practitioners and not to those who work within Protestant tradition since we have to remember that Protestants view devotion to the...
Iron Disulphide
Also known as 'Fool's Gold, pyrite is highly regarded as a powerful amulet for gambling luck, money-drawing, and business matters.
I usually put pyrite chunks dressed with Fast Luck, Money-Drawing, Prosperity, or Wealthy Way oil on stores' and offices' altar spaces (if there are any)...
What is a mojo? A charm bag of African-American Hoodoo practice filled with magical ingredients accompanied by positive prayers and instructions for each ingredient.
Traditional charm bags originated in West and Central Africa, specifically from Bantu and Kongo tribes. When African charm traditions...
See, What Our Path Is
Being immensely interested in African diaspora religions and Folk Catholicism, we primarily honor our ancestors, Church saints, angels, folk saints, and Afro-Caribbean spirits such as loas and orishas. If we absolutely have to put a label on ourselves, we prefer the label of “Folk Judeo-Christian” as we live according to the customs and traditions of conjure workers and root doctors from the Deep South and syncretic followers of Christ in various nations of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Our spirituality includes West African-based Caribbean-style tradition as well as Esoteric Christianity and Yoruba religion. Generally, we practice Gullah folk magic popularly known in the Deep South as Hoodoo or Lowcountry Voodoo; the ancient wisdom founded by Orunmila in Ile-Ife called Ifa, and a bit of Lihim na Karunungan (Filipino Esotericism or Philippine Mystery Tradition).
Respect, What Hoodoo Is
Despite visible evidence of Central West African, Islamic/Moorish, Native American, Judeo-Christian, European, and even a few East Indian/Hindu, Chinese, and Latino/Caribbean retentions, influences, and admixtures, this does not mean that Hoodoo is an open and unrestricted system of eclectic magic.
Conjure, and Rootwork is rooted in African-American culture and Folk Protestant Christianity. Any practitioners of Hoodoo who did not grow up within African-American culture should still have a fuller understanding and high regard for its origin.
In the beginning, the early conjure doctors were entirely Black. The students were all Black, the elders were Black, the teaching was Black, and they focused only on Blacks as their audience. But other races were accepted when they had also been brought into the Hoodoo community and learned the tradition. Even so, we should still acknowledge that Hoodoo, Conjure, or Rootwork is not ours but only belongs to the Black community. We are just believers who are grafted into their rich yet humble tradition and, by word and deed, embrace genuine African-American folk spirituality and magic. This is all we can do for all the blessings we received from God and our Black ancestors.
Hoodoo's lack of religious structure and hierarchical authority do not mean that any person or group can appropriate or redefine it. If one cannot respect Hoodoo as it is and for what it is, then please, do not play with it.
Learn, How Conjure Is Worked On
Authentic Conjure is not all about blending and selling oils and casting spells online to make money. Hoodoo has its own spiritual philosophy, theology, and a wide range of African-American folkways, customs, and practices which include, but are not limited to, veneration of the ancestors, Holy Ghost shouting, snake reverence, spirit possession, graveyard conjure, nkisi practices, Black hermeneutics, African-American church traditions, the ring shout, the Kongo cosmogram, ritual water immersions, crossroads magic, making conjure canes, animal sacrifices, Jewish scriptural magic, enemy works, Seekin' ritual, magical incorporation of bodily fluids, etc.
Unfortunately, they are currently missing in marketeered or commercial Hoodoo, as they are being removed, disregarded, or ignored by unknowing merchants who simply want to profit from an African-American spiritual tradition, thus reducing Hoodoo to just a plethora of recipes, spells, and tricks.
Tim and I are completely aware that we are not African-Americans, so we are doing our best to retain and preserve the customs and traditions of the slave ancestors to avoid unnecessary conflict with the larger Black-Belt Hoodoo community and prevent them from labeling us inauthentic outsiders and our practice as mere 'cultural misappropriation.'
Accept, Who We Are
The byproduct of eons of slave history, Black supremacists believe that only people with African or African-American blood are real Hoodoo practitioners and are often inclined to consider themselves as the elite of the Hoodoo community; a place in which they believed that Whites, Latinos, Asians or any other races who do not have Black ancestry do not belong. Black supremacists are prone to be very hostile towards both “outsiders” and those accepting of them, fearing that their promotion and acceptance would dilute or even negate the Black identity of Hoodoo.
Although we do understand why some Blacks hold this stance, since a lot of people nowadays are misappropriating many aspects of Hoodoo and teaching the spiritual path even without proper education and training (for purely monetary purposes), we would, however, want to say that not all non-Black Hoodoo practitioners are the same.
WE respect what Hoodoo is, and we never try to change it, claim it as our own, disregard its history, take unfair advantage of it, speak against the people who preserve it, and mix it with other cultures (like our own) and call it Filipino/Pinoy Hoodoo, Gypsy Hoodoo or Wiccan Hoodoo because there are no such things.
