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| | Hoodoo in Theory and Practice by Catherine Yronwode  |
| | An online book with hundreds of interlinked illustrated web pages on African-American folk-magic (a.k.a. hoodoo, rootwork, or conjure). Included are descriptions of how to lay tricks; burn candles and incense; sprinkle powders; make mojo bags; prepare spiritual baths and floor washes; use dressing oils, herbs, minerals, and roots; perform spells for drawing luck, love, and money; take off jinxes and crossed conditions.
http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html |
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| | Hoodoo: An Afro-Diaspora Tradition |
| | A New World name of an Ancient African Magical Tradition.
http://www.MamiWata.com/hoodoo.html |
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| | Index of 19th Century Southern Texts |
| | An archive of texts by Charles W. Chestnutt, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mary Alice Owen that mention African-American hoodoo beliefs that derive from African religious sources. Also included at the site are extracts from Mark Twain's works that mention European-American witchcraft beliefs.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/riedy/texts.html |
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| | Obeah and Kumina - Definitions |
| | Brief definitions of Obeah and Kumina, from a larger site on Jamaican folklore.
http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~alaing/jfolk.html#obeah |
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| | Obeah: Afro-Shamanistik Witchcraft |
| | An occultist's compilation of views on Jamaican Obeah, stressing magical aspects and minimizing religious ones, with extracts from W. Somerset Maugham and Azoth Kalafou.
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/obeah.html |
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| | Rethinking the Nature and Tasks of African-American Theology |
| | Anthony B. Pinn of Macalester College provides scholarly examples of how hoodoo and other African-based religious practices form a "second stream" within African-American Christianity, forcing a recognition of theological complexity beyond the merely folkloric or religio-magical orientation of conjure.
http://www.mamiwata.com/hoodoo4.html |
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| | UCLA Folklore Archives - Hoodoo Heritage: Hyatt Field Recordings |
| | A brief introduction to UCLA's holdings of the collected papers of the folklorist Harry M. Hyatt, who interviewed hoodoo practitioners throughout the South during the 1930s and again in 1970. The site contains sound clips and transcripts from a 1970 interview with The Healer Sarheed.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/folklore/special/ |
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