Small human skull decor, a doll made with genuine coffin woods, graveyard dirt, genuine Dead Man's Bones, and cigar, to be used in a necromantic spellwork.
Life After Death
When discussing necromancy or working with the helpful and uncanny dead, we need to understand our concept of the afterlife....
Unlike most of the other systems of magic, most Hoodoo teachings (oral traditions) you would get from the down-home, old-fashioned conjure workers don't include any mentions of using crystals or gemstones within traditional spells and preparation of magical supplies such as oils, bath crystals,...
Conjure workers value this sought-after distilled alcoholic beverage as sacred or special water in its own right. It is made from a fermented grain mash of barley, corn, rye, or wheat. Whiskey or Whisky is used in the practice of Hoodoo just like how the Florida Water, Kananga Water, Hoyt's Cologne,...
Sun
Archangel: Michael
Color: Gold, orange, red, yellow
Crystal: Topaz
Day: Sunday
Element: Fire
Herb: Almond, bay, cedar, cinnamon, frankincense, marigold, Saint John’s wort
Kabbalistic Sephirot:Tiferet
Magickal Property: Creativity, fatherhood, leadership, success
Metal: Gold
Sign: Leo
Moon
Archangel:...
We know what a medical check-up is - a thorough examination, precisely a physical one. I must have received hundreds or even thousands of check-ups in my existence. And I believe everyone would agree that it is important to have regular check-ups to help us obtain the health care that is best...
polygonatum biflora, convallaria multiflorum, convallaria polygonatum
Solomon's Seal plant is a woodland perennial commonly found in the Southeastern United States and has native varieties in Europe and Asia. Its name was derived from the circular depressions formed on the rhizomes that resemble...
rubus fruticosus, rubus villosus, rubus canadensis
There are a lot of tales surrounding the appearance of blackberries. According to one tradition, Christ's crown of thorns was made of brambles of berries, and when he died, the berries were turned from red to black. Another Judeo-Christian legend...
Various spp.
Dried chicken feet from various breeds (though the most powerful chicken feet come from black-feathered fowls) are used in the practice of Hoodoo and other folk magical traditions for protection and enemy work. The feet are believed to be a powerful protection against sorcerous practitioners...
Spiritual bath staples include commercial Lavender herbal soap, Rose Water, Florida Water, Bath oils, African Black Soap, Bay Rum, Florida Water Soap, and some flower buds and petals.
Spiritual baths are an essential Hoodoo way to cleanse the mind, spirit, and body and change one's luck from bad...
Jack ball is a collection of magical items rolled in candle wax and wrapped in red string or thread. Enough string is often left for it to be suspended. Jack balls are also called jack bags, conjure balls, or luck balls, depending on where and how they are made and what is placed inside them....
According to the Scriptures, there are different spiritual gifts that God chooses to give to certain people. As with all other gifts, not everyone receives these spiritual gifts. Some people have a gift for the work, and some do not.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11 "Now there are many forms of gifts, but the...
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.
