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To: alt.lucky.w,alt.magick.tyagi From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Christian Prayers Against Rootwork Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 17:01:59 -0800 [Christian] PRAYERS AGAINST [Rootwork, Hoodoo, Conjure,] VOODOO, AND OTHER FORMS OF [African Diaspora] WITCHCRAFT [and Religion] from "DELIVERANCE FROM VOODOO AND AFRICAN CURSES" by Ivory Hopkins, Deliverance Minister and Pastor What is archived here is an edited selection of Christian prayers by Pastor Ivory Hopkins against hoodoo, Voodoo, and the Africanization of Christian worship services. The pastor's characterizations of the elements of non-Christian religions and systems of magic as "demonic," needless to say, do not reflect the opinions of the Esoteric Archivists. Hopkins' original, unedited text can be found at http://www.demonbuster.com/voodoo.html It contains many proof-texts from the Christian Bible which have been deleted here as they are well known. I have also re-ordered the prayers, giving the anti-hoodoo material first, followed by prayers against the Africanization of Christian services, and then by the anti-Haitian Voodoo prayers. In the original these topics were mingled together. No attempt has been made to correct Hopkins' spelling or grammar. After his prayers, Hopkins presents a veritable keyword-list of "demons" to be cast out. These include gods, saints, and material goods used in magic. I have re-ordered this list into the same three classes used for editing the prayers -- hoodoo, Africanization, and Voodoo -- and i have also eliminated a few redundancies found in the original text. Hopkins' list of African-Haitian religious "demons" seems drawn from books; in fact, many words in the "demons" list appear in alphabetical order, as if lifted from published indices. Thus, his anti-Voodoo rant is neither particularly original nor particularly interesting. It is but another in a long list of Christian demonstrations of intolerance and hostility to non-Christian religions. However, in Hopkins' prayers against hoodoo and in his hoodoo "demon" list, we see something both original and unusual. It is not common for African-American Christians to contend against hoodoo -- many black Christians practice rootwork with little or no sense of guilt or wrong-doing -- but among those pastors who do condemn it in broad terms, actual knowledge of its premises and terminology is generally nil. Hopkins' obvious practical familiarity with rootwork and his specific use of unusual key terms is the precise reason why i have taken the trouble to archive such an anti-magical screed. His descriptions of items cited, given before some of the prayers, are accurate, in my opinion. Unlike any other anti-hoodoo Christian preacher i have encountered, Hopkins deals knowingly with premises and concepts found only in this branch of folk-magic, and uses highly specialized terminology such as "cross someone up," "bad tricks," "Dr. Buzzard," "numbers books," "toby," "graveyard dust," "nine day tea," and "conjure ball," with a confidence which could only be found in a person brought up with the work from an early age. Pastor Ivory Hopkins is unknown to me, but his use of the word "witchcraft" to mean hoodoo and the word "toby" to mean mojo bag seem to identify him as an African-American man raised in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, or the Carolinas, for according to the folklorist Harry M. Hyatt, who conducted 1,600 interviews with black folk-magicians during the 1930s, both terms could commonly be heard in the regions named above and were rare elsewhere. The prayers of Pastor Hopkins are archived under folk-magic/hoodoo because they incorporate important elements of hoodoo as keywords -- but the material could as easily be archived under religion/african because it is anti-Voodoo or under religion/christian, because the prayers are made "in Jesus' name." Finally, i wish to touch briefly on the matter of Hopkins' prayers against the Africanization of Christian worship services, to emulate all-white churches where singing and dancing are not allowed and where no one gets happy or falls out. In my opinion, his urge to eliminate "rythmatic [sic] worship" from African-American community churches may be a symptom of fanatic dogmatism or a symptom of racial self-loathing, but whatever it is -- thank God! -- i believe it is doomed to fail. -- cat yronwode ----------------------------------------------------- [Christian] PRAYERS AGAINST [Rootwork, Hoodoo, Conjure,] VOODOO, AND OTHER FORMS OF [African Diaspora] WITCHCRAFT [and Religion] from "DELIVERANCE FROM VOODOO AND AFRICAN CURSES" by Ivory Hopkins, Deliverance Minister and Pastor Below are warfare prayers to fight against voodoo, root workers, conjure men, root doctors, Haitian, African, Black Southern, and any other country Witchcraft. [PRAYERS AGAINST HOODOO ROOTWORK] Some people have been around or have been exposed to what is called roots, which is nothing more than African witchcraft brought to America during the slave trading years. The following [...] warfare prayers will help in Deliverance when someone is bound by these things. The cross is used as a symbol for conjuration (calling demons for help). Sometimes an X is used to cross someone up. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself from spirits of confusion and command the curse of the crossed X to be broken in the Name of Jesus. I command all demons to come out in Jesus' Name. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take authority over all curses in my family line due to the practice of magic done by some ancestor in the past. I command prosperity to come forth on my business, farm, cattle, and family line, in the Name of Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus, I command spirits of divination, familiar spirits and death spirits to come out of me in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself and my family line from curses coming against us from those [...] burning candles, [...] using psychic prayers and charms against me and my family line and cast these spirits out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I also loose myself and my family line from any curses and spirits that I or a family member have opened the door to attack us in the past and cast them out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself and my family line from curses that have come on me and my family due to me or my family members dealing with occult, voodoo, witchcraft, dream books, number books, and/or sorcery that has opened the door for demons to bind us. I cast them out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command the power in and over the fetish to be broken and I cast out every spirit that is operating in any object and break its power over me and my family line. Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I cast out of me and my family line any demons that may have gained ground over our lives. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself and my family line from any love spells sent against me or my family members. I repent of the love magic I have used against someone in the past and ask you to deliver me from these demons, in the Name of Jesus Christ. I break and loose the bondage that I have placed on any other individual by the use of spirits and command my mind, will and emotions to be restored to its proper place in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take my stand against all conjure balls used against me and my family line. The angels of the Lord encamps about me to deliver me and I send them to destroy the power of these conjurations. I return these curses back from where they came and cast down and cast out any demons that have been sent against me and my family. I loose myself and my family from good tricks of witchcraft, and bad tricks of witchcraft and trick by using body parts, whether mine or someone else's. I command, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ any commands of witchcraft or voodoo against me or my family to be broken and its power to be destroyed in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I break any curses done through the use of my picture by any witchcraft or voodoo worker. I command any demons to come out of me now in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Chewing the root and binding the problem or person is a type of witchcraft used in court rooms against the judge, lawyer and plaintiffs. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I break any roots worked against the judicial system and anyone involved with the Godly judgment of the judicial system. I command these spirits to leave now. I cast out and cast down their power of control on me or anyone involved. Father, I loose the protection of the Lord over all who are involved with the case or praying for it, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. A toby is a bag of witchcraft worn around the waistband or trousers or pocket to bring luck or a curse on your enemy. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I bind the power of any toby in this place that would try to control me or anyone in this room. I take authority over the demons that work through it and command them to come out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I repent of all involvement in voodoo, obeah, witchcraft, sorcery, divination, or conjuration that I or any of my family members have been involved in the past. Forgive me Lord when I have innocently or ignorantly gone to or carried someone else to a root worker. I command all spirits to be weakened and bound and I cast them out in the Name of Jesus. I cut off their power over me and my family line in the heavenlies and on the earth. I cast out every demon who has been summoned to curse us to come out of me now in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I command all soul destroying demons to be bound and ask the Lord to restore my soul to its proper place in the Name of Jesus. I break the curses of candle burning to dead saints, rosary prayers and statue or idol worshipping of voodoo. In the Name of Jesus I break curses of the tongue coming against me from those who are bound by voodoo or witchcraft. [PRAYERS AGINST THE AFRICANIZATZION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION] In Deliverance, a person who has been in voodoo must be sure that the Gifts of the Spirit in them are not a mixture of the old voodoo and witchcraft spirits. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself and my family members from any curses from my involvement in voodoo or black witchcraft. I command all related spirits to come out of me now, in the Name of Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I call upon you to loose me and my family line from any spirits that have gotten into our praise and worship. I take back any part of my body that the enemy is using to mix worship with. I command spirits of rythmatic worship, hypnotic worship, trances in worship, jerking spirits, false Holy Ghost spirits, false anointing in worship, false laughing spirits, spirits of false quickening, any spirits of false holy dance to loose me and my family line now, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I only receive that which comes from the Spirit of God in worship. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take authority over any curses that are being sent or that I or my family line have opened the door to by using scriptures to curse me or my family line. I cast these demons out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take authority over spirits of false prophecy, false gifts, and false inherited gifts of the spirit realm counterfeiting the Holy Ghost, false dreams and visions, I cast them out in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. [PRAYERS AGAINST HAITIAN VOODOO] PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I take authority over the strong man of the gris-gris or grigri and command them to come out now. Also I command the objects used or sorcery used to loose its control and power over this person, family or congregation to leave now in Jesus' Name. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself and my family from the ancestral or family line curse of the ruling Loa or spirit and I command it broken over us and I command all demons associated with it to come out now in Jesus' Name. PRAYER: Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I command the spirits in the drums that conjure up demons to be broken and come out in the Name of Jesus Christ. Govi is the jarred souls of parents or grandparents in clay pots. PRAYER: Father, In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I loose myself from the demons of my parents and grandparents and command the jarred demons to be turned into hell, and come out of me and my family line. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I command my soul to be loosed from the earthen vessel that holds it and put back in its proper place. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I set myself free from the spirits that have been offered up to at infancy and reverse them from the left hand of demonic bondage and translate them into the kingdom of God's dear Son, who is seated on the right hand of the Father, where I am now seated also in heavenly places. PRAYER: In the Name of the Lord Jesus, I take authority over Abaddon or Appollyon rulers of the bottomless pit and I command every African, Haitian or Black Voodoo curse to be broken in the Name of Jesus Christ, and command the crossroads to be closed to me and my family line forever. I command all demons associated with this curse to come out in Jesus' Name. PRAYER: In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I bind the spirits of Legba, Samedi, and Ghede and cast them out of me in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Also, I loose myself from the control and conjuration of the priest or priestess. PRAYER: Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I take authority over spirits of python, zombie spirits and divination spirits. I command the power of the priest and priestess to be broken over me and my family line, in the Name of the Lord Jesus and I cast out all related demons in Jesus' Name. DEMONS TO CAST OUT: (This is not an all inclusive list.) In the Name of Jesus I cast out African, Haitian and Black Voodoo and Witchcraft; spirits of infirmity that has entered because of the effects of voodoo or witchcraft. I renounce and turn against all household gods and command these demons to come out of me and my family. I command all voodoo soul destroying demons to be bound in the name of Jesus and to come out. Spirits of death and false gifts by voodoo and witchcraft, I cast you out in Jesus' Name. Demons of candle burning, rosary prayers and idol worship come out now in Jesus' Name. I command all hidden demons to come out of me in the Name of Jesus. I command the following demons to come out of me in Jesus' Name: [NOTE: Hopkins' orginal list of "demons" has been re-ordered by topic and divided into three lists, with a few redundancies eliminated] [Hoodoo, Rootwork, and African-American Witchcraft "Dmons"] confusion, crossed X, roots, superstition, charms, burning candles, psychic prayers, sorcery, divination, bibliomancy, love potions, nine day tea, potions of any kind, mind control, occult mind control, death ritual, fear, magic, love spells, beauty rock, conjurations, conjure balls, toby or hand, veil over the eyes, divination, creole curses, hoodoo, curse of roots, roots in love or lust potions, graveyard dust demons, Dr. Buzzard demons, candle burning, fetishes, curse of seeking help from witchcraft workers, witchcraft, [Africanizatrion of Christian Worship Services "Demons"] jerking, twitching, spasms, shaking, rocking backward and forward, dancing, idolatry, false prophesy, false gifts, false inherited gifts of the spirit, false dreams and visions, false praise, false worship, false holy dance, false shouting, false dancing in the spirit, burning in the stomach called the Holy Ghost, false voodoo tongues, false baptism of fire, false voices, false preaching spirits, [Haitian Voodoo "Demons"] Loa, familiar spirit, mysteriere, govi, hougan, drums, les morts, Ruling spirit of Ogoun, St. Jacques, legba, ghede, et les marassa, dancing, manga marassa, laver tete, zombie, [begin index list #1] assator, asson, acon, baka, banda, batterie maconnique, cambe, kembe, charge, chauffer, chev al chewl, colliel, dessounin, gagnin loa, garde, gran maitre, mambo, mange, mascarron, massissi, les mysteres, paquets congo, reler, renvoyer, ramasser, saints used as synonym for loa, verser, wanga, [end index list #1] [begin index list #2] Baka, Banda, Dance, Cama Kembe, Pain, Baterie Maconnique, Cev Al Chewl, Gagnin Loa, Garde, Gran Maitre, Colliel, Massissi, Wanga, Reler, Maori, Ogoun, Baron Samedi, Nan boublou, Erzulie, Erzulie Ge-Rouge, Rada, Petro, Rada, Obatala, Ogoun Paname, Ogoun Baye, Ogoun Badagris, Ogoun Ferei, Ogoun Shango, Dadal, Loco Roi Nago, Nago Piman, Voodoo [end index list #2] papa damballa, mistress erzulie, maori, mwuetsi, morongo, dahomey, nanan-bouclou, St. Patrick, damballah, the chromo of lazarus, old legba, St. Ulrique, Agwe, St. Isdore, Azacca, Bline Gawd, rosary, serpent, python, Li Grand Zombi, Magnam, Monsieur Agoussou, loa racine, grand bois doilet, spirit of the tree, evil soul ties, fire walking, python serpent spirits of voodoo, sickness by voodoo, death spirits of voodoo, family line curse of voodoo, fear of voodoo, and voodoo icing. To stay free, start worshiping the Lord Jesus Christ, read the Word of God daily, and pray, fast and do warfare daily but most importantly do self-deliverance daily. JESUS IS THE DELIVERER End of File
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