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Christian Prayers Against Rootwork

To: alt.lucky.w,alt.magick.tyagi
From: catherine yronwode 
Subject: 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

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[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

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