Creole Conjure

Creole Conjure
Author: Christina Rosso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781737022237

Every city has a story. Behind the veil of tourism, New Orleans drips with hunger, sorcery, and secrets. One of those is Honey Island Swamp, a powerful nexus of magic outside the city limits. Its blue-green water can make you ageless and manifest carnivals out of thin air. Similar to the River Styx, it serves as the gateway between the realms of the living, dead, and in-between. And because of this power, it becomes both a haven and a battlefield for witches, humans, and other magical beings.

Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook

Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook
Author: Denise Alvarado
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1609256158

“Voodoo Hoodoo” is the unique variety of Creole Voodoo found in New Orleans. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook is a rich compendium of more than 300 authentic Voodoo and Hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, gambling luck, prosperity, health, and success. Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, and shows how it evolved over time to include influences from Native American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th- and 20th- century formularies along with her own magical arts. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook includes more than 100 spells for Banishing, Binding, Fertility, Luck, Protection, Money, and more. Alvarado introduces readers to the Pantheon of Voodoo Spirits, the Seven African Powers, important Loas, Prayers, Novenas, and Psalms, and much, much more, including:Oils and Potions: Attraction Love Oil, Dream Potion, Gambler’s Luck Oil, Blessing OilHoodoo Powders and Gris Gris: Algier’s Fast Luck Powder, Controlling Powder, Money Drawing PowderTalismans and Candle MagicCurses and Hexes

Denise M. Alvarado's Anthology of Conjure

Denise M. Alvarado's Anthology of Conjure
Author: Denise M. Alvarado
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-11-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781541365636

There are mysteries in every culture, and I was born into one with true magick at its core. Tracking the Grunch on the levees, holding seances on the bayous, and catching snakes in the swamps-this is what my childhood looked like. With every adventure came more wonder, and with every experience, more mysteries were revealed. This, for me, was growing up Creole in New Orleans. Created for members of my Conjure Club, the Anthology of Conjure Volume 1 contains a collection of articles, eBooks, and downloads I have written over the years about the folk traditions of my culture of origin.

Hoodoo and Conjure New Orleans 2014

Hoodoo and Conjure New Orleans 2014
Author: Denise Alvarado
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2014-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781495431647

This magazine journal is an 8 X 10 special edition, full color bleed, of the highest quality and bound like a book. A true collector's item and must have for any student of conjure and lover of New Orleans and Southern folk magic traditions. This issue highlights recent events in the world of New Orleans Voudou and includes more Louisiana contributors and talented writers in the wide world of Hoodoo and Conjure. In this issue: FEATURE STORIES The Pink Tomb of Marie Laveaux: Devotion or Desecration? by Denise Alvarado Bearing Witness to Fate: Ifa Reading for 2014 by Baba Eli American Horror Story Coven: Will the Real Papa Legba Please Stand Up? by Denise Alvarado Getting a Jump on Successful New Year by Dorothy Morrison In the Shadow of the Crossroads by Alyne Pustanio Louisiana Woman, Carolina Man by Carolina Dean Walking on the Vows of an Ifa Rootworker by Doc Oloyade Hava The Noninitiates Guide to Palo by Madrina Angelique Following Tituba by Witchdoctor Utu New Orleans Practitioner Profile: The Divine Prince Ty Emmecca by Denise Alvarado APPLIED CONJURE Brown Bottle Spell by Magick LaCroix Easy Low Cost Money Spells by Carolina Dean Getting that Swing: How to Use a Pendulum by Carolina Dean Talking to the Ancestors with Bare Bones by Melony Malsom A Guide to Candle Shapes and Figures by Celeste Heldstab Blockbuster Magick by Khi Armand

Black Magic

Black Magic
Author: Yvonne P. Chireau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520249887

Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements—from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars and the general public, Yvonne P. Chireau describes Conjure and other related traditions, such as Hoodoo and Rootworking, in a beautifully written, richly detailed history that presents the voices and experiences of African Americans and shows how magic has informed their culture. Focusing on the relationship between Conjure and Christianity, Chireau shows how these seemingly contradictory traditions have worked together in a complex and complementary fashion to provide spiritual empowerment for African Americans, both slave and free, living in white America. As she explores the role of Conjure for African Americans and looks at the transformations of Conjure over time, Chireau also rewrites the dichotomy between magic and religion. With its groundbreaking analysis of an often misunderstood tradition, this book adds an important perspective to our understanding of the myriad dimensions of human spirituality.

Conjure Digest

Conjure Digest
Author: Denise Alvarado
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533530233

The Conjure Digest is a weekly periodical of articles written by Denise Alvarado and published by Creole Moon Publications.In this first issue:OFF WITH HIS HEAD! While visiting the French Island of Réunion, vacationers witness an untold story about St. Expedite there. Quaint little red altars litter the landscape and command the attention of all; there is no escaping his presence. Upon closer look, decapitated St. Expedite statues can be seen dotting those curious shrines. As it turns out, his head is a coveted conjure curio by sorcerers there.LEGENDS OF THE CROSSROADSIt is said that in order to master a particular skill, one may go to a CROSSROADS and meet a "black man," presumably Legba though often mistaken for the Devil, who will bestow upon one the desired skills. But, did you know that crossroads used to be the place where criminals were executed and suicidees were buried? And, just what was Hecate's role at the crossroads in ancient Greece?MAGICKAL ALPHABETSMagickal alphabets have been used for centuries by magicians and witches for codifying spells and other purposes. Find three different magickal alphabets in this issue.THESE SHOES ARE MADE FOR CONJUREOne of the oldest and most common forms of conjure in the South involves the use of shoes in some fashion or other (pun intended). Shoes are easy to work with, they are an everyday item, and they are often readily available.

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook

The Voodoo Doll Spellbook
Author: Alvarado, Denise
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1578635543

Presents doll spells drawn from New Orleans Voodoo and hoodoo traditions as well as those from ancient Greece, Egypt, Malaysia, Japan, and Africa, intended to produce fast-acting, long-lasting magic.

She Is a Beast

She Is a Beast
Author: Christina Rosso
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734698305

A collection of feminist fairy tales.

Denise M. Alvarado's Anthology of Conjure Vol. 1

Denise M. Alvarado's Anthology of Conjure Vol. 1
Author: Denise Alvarado
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre:
ISBN: 0359721524

"There are mysteries in every culture, and I was born into one with true magick at its core. Tracking the Grunch on the levees, holding seances on the bayous, and catching snakes in the swamps: this is what my childhood looked like. With every adventure came more wonder, and with every experience, more mysteries were revealed. This, for me, was growing up Creole in New Orleans. Created for members of my Conjure Club, the Anthology of Conjure Volume 1 contains a collection of articles, eBooks, and downloads I have written over the years about the folk traditions of my culture of origin."--Publisher.

Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature

Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature
Author: James S. Mellis
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476669627

From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward, African American authors have drawn on African spiritual practices as literary inspiration, and as a way to maintain a connection to Africa. This volume has collected new essays about the multiple ways African American authors have incorporated Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in their work. Among the authors covered are Frederick Douglass, Shirley Graham, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ntozake Shange, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, and Ishmael Reed.