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From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: JGammon: Spells, Magic, Hoodoo and Vodoun (was Training) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:48:50 GMT Hybiscus wrote: > > gammonjason@aol.com (Gammon Jason)] wrote: > > You are confusing Voodou with Hoodoo. Now Hoodoo men and women, > > also known as "root workers" practice just the magick aspect. Let > > me clear things up. There will never exist a Voodou practioner that > > *justs* practices magic. For to do so will automaticly cast someone > > in the role of "hoodoo". I believe you are wrong. Most hoodoos i know DO indeed practice a religion -- Protestant Christianity. A minority of hoodoos are Roman Catholic Christians, especially around NOLA and in MD. This fact is easily demonstrated by examining the role that invocations such as "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost" play in hoodoo spells collected by oral historians, and the heavy emphasis root workers place on the recitation of Psalms from the Bible for achieving magical effects. More details are online here: What Hoodoo is -- and Isn't: http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoohistory.html Secrets of the Psalms: http://www.luckymojo.com/secretspsalms.html > > Now then Voodou priests and priestesses, called Mammas and Papas > > here in the states will work white magic free of charge. There are > > others who practice black magic who do so for money.....most of us > > don't talk about these people, not out of fear but out of disgust. In the African-American hoodoo community the custom of hiring someone to work roots for you is a simple transactional relationship, like hiring a plumber or a hair-dresser. It is not fraught with the judgementalism you bring to it from your particular branch of Vodoun. > *(re Hoodoo) Does that make it > sacrilegious to not pray to your > Gods/Dieties and still practice magick? > Or is it a sort of religious practice in > itself to practice this magick? As i said above, most practitioners of hoodoo are Bible-believing Christians. Hoodoo is not a religious organization as such, but many root-workers will tell you that recitation of Psalms and prayer "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost" -- as well as intercessory prayers addressed to specific saints if the practitioner is a Catholic -- are almost always a part of their spell-crafting. cat yronwode Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets
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