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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
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Hoodoo Medicine is a unique record of nearly lost African-American folk culture. It documents herbal medicines used for centuries, from the 1600s until recent decades, by the slaves and later their freed descendants, in the South Carolina Sea Islands. The Sea Island people, also called the Gullah, were unusually isolated from other slave groups by the creeks and marshes of the Low Country. They maintained strong African influences on their speech, social customs, and beliefs, long after other American blacks had lost this connection. Likewise, their folk medicine mixed medicines that originated in Africa with cures learned from the American Indians and European settlers. Hoodoo Medicine is a window into Gullah traditions, which in recent years have been threatened by the migration of families, the invasion of the Sea Islands by suburban developers, and the gradual death of the elder generation. More than that, it captures folk practices that lasted longer in the Sea Islands than elsewhere, but were once widespread throughout African-American communities of the South.
Author | : Herbert C. Covey |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780739116449 |
African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery.
Author | : Stephanie Rose Bird |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780738702759 |
Tracing the magical roots of "hoodoo" back to West Africa, the author provides a history of this nature-based healing tradition and offers practical advice on how to apply hoodoo magic to everyday life.
Author | : Medicine Man |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781725872578 |
Wurkn Dem Rootz is a book for those who are seeking to embrace the culture of Hoodoo from an African American perspective. This book includes Hoodoo recipes as well as the basis for creating a formulary way of thinking as a Rootworker. The focal point of "Wurkn Dem Rootz" is consciously connecting to your ancestral powers to manifest greatness in your life.
Author | : Katrina Hazzard-Donald |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2012-12-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252094468 |
A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.
Author | : Paris Ajana |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1646042212 |
Discover how to harness traditional folk magick with the help of this friendly and accessible guide. We are all spiritual beings with the ability to connect to the guidance of our ancestors. With The Little Book of Rootwork, you can discover how to tap into your inner power to invigorate your mind, body, and soul. This book offers not only an in-depth exploration of African American folk magick but also provides a fun, practical guide to creating rituals and spells. Author Paris Ajana, a descendant of African American and Filipino rootworkers, guides you on a spiritual journey with advice and techniques for: Altars and sacred spaces Herbs and roots Mojo bags Honey jars Crystals and stones Candle magick Doll babies And more Whether you’re an expert rootworker or a beginner looking to improve love, success, protection, and more, this easy-to-use beginner’s guide will help you manifest the life you want.
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.
Author | : Jeffrey E. Anderson |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2008-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0807135283 |
From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of the African American experience. What began as a mixture of African, European, and Native American influences within slave communities finds expression today in a multimillion dollar business. In Conjure in African American Society, Jeffrey E. Anderson unfolds a fascinating story as he traces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure as a perpetuation of old stereotypes that depict blacks as bound to superstition, the truth, Anderson reveals, is far more complex. Drawing on folklore, fiction and nonfiction, music, art, and interviews, he explores various portrayals of the conjurer -- backward buffoon, rebel against authority, and symbol of racial pride. He also examines the actual work performed by conjurers, including the use of pharmacologically active herbs to treat illness, psychology to ease mental ailments, fear to bring about the death of enemies and acquittals at trials, and advice to encourage clients to succeed on their own. By critically examining the many influences that have shaped conjure over time, Anderson effectively redefines magic as a cultural power, one that has profoundly touched the arts, black Christianity, and American society overall.
Author | : Michele Elizabeth Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692857878 |
"Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing" is an engaging study of the traditional healing arts that have sustained African Americans across the Atlantic ocean for four centuries down through today. Complete with photographs and illustrations, a medicines, remedies, and hoodoo section, interviews and stories.
Author | : Talia Felix |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2014-12-11 |
Genre | : Charms |
ISBN | : 9781500840808 |
HANDS, MOJOS, CONJURE BAGS, JACKS, JACKBALLS, CHARM BAGS, PAQUETS, MEDICINE BAGS, ROOT BAGS and GRIS-GRIS are terms used to describe a family of powerful objects which have been treated with much mystery, fear, reverence and confusion over time. This book unveils the truth of their history and provides you with the means to create hoodoo's most enduring charm using the greatest magical techniques ever known. Within these pages you'll find the astounding recipes used by Marie Laveau, Black Herman, Doctor Buzzard and L. W. de Laurence for creating powerful talismans of magic - the powerful HANDS carried by the magicians of old for achieving their every desire.