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[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



All done! Patrons will receive the 13th and final batch of freshly written spells from my new "Mystery Book," comprising 6 typeset pages of my as-yet-unpublished conjure book on an as-yet-unrevealed topic, which is set to debut on August 13th and 14th at the 2022 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival. With 90 pages finished, i am now DONE. Attendees of the festival will receive the actual finished and printed book in their goody-boxes, along with surprise examples of the things themselves, but for now my Patreon subscribers have exclusive access as a "thank you" for financially supporting my writing. This week we have "Mystery Book Culminations" -- with only the cover art to follow.

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This press-ready batch of book pages skips through incomplete chapters. However, fans and Patrons know what the book's topic is, without revealing the subject matter until we have some cover art to show.

This week i am also thanking my Patrons for last year's financing of the time i took to write the book "Terrors of the Evil Eye Exposed" -- and that book is on sale to the public at https://luckymojo.com/terrorsoftheevileyeexposed.html

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#imadethis #magicspells #hoodoo #conjure #witchdraft #rootwork #conjurebook #grimoire #hoodooheritagefestival #luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," i present a rare look at hard-core methods of cursing and killing with conjure, as collected and published by black folklorists in the 19th century. This unique perspective on African-American magic is unmediated by white academic theorizing, and consists of two dozen spells to bring about illness and loss of life.

ALICE M. BACON: CONJURING FOR SICKNESS AND DEATH, from The Southern Workman, November 1895 (Collected in 1875)

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes conjure, root doctoring, and witchcraft as practiced among formerly enslaved and recently emancipated people of African descent in the state of Virginia in 1875. Techniques consist of direct consumption of spiritual poisons as well as contact magic through the feet and hands.

The Southern Spirits web site includes material about hoodoo gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, and fragments extracted from novels and short stories, annotated with interpretive and comparative notes. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://southernspirits.org

My Patrons have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum which enable discussions with me about the ongoing Patreon page publications. If you are a Patron, come on over to the Private Forum for "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog" and we can talk about the project:

private-patreon-forum-f237.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at

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and on Instagram at

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hoodoo #conjure #witchcraft #rootwork #divination #folklore

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



OLD MASSACHUSETTS TEA ROOMS!

Tier 3 MAY 28th, 2022

Once more we leap into the past, exploring the tea rooms of bygone America, this time in Massachusetts, a state replete with historical buildings, old mills, hooked rugs, and colonial-style furniture. On today's journey we will visit 16 towns and 16 tea rooms, some long vanished and some still in use as eateries. One was destroyed by a hurricane, and you will even see the sad aftermath of that event.

"Old Massachusetts Tea Rooms" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until May 28th, 2023, at which point it will be unlocked for their amazement.

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This brand new web page marks my return to the project of scanning and uploading hundreds or rare old tea room postcard images and my accompanying research about them.

After a year for Patrons to enjoy, this material will make its way to the public-facing pages of The Mystic Tea Room web site, which is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/The_Mystic_Tea_Room

As a Patron, you have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum! Signing up takes a few seconds, and each thread allows you to participate in discussions with me about the ongoing Patreon page publications. To comment on this week's new pages, or any of the previous posts, please go to my private Patreon forum.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this wen page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearoome #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This is an essential part of the "Your Wate and Fate" cluster of pages dealing with antique postcards that portray lucky stones and flowers and the links between these and the signs of the zodiac.

Your Wate and Fate -- J. Marks Fortune Series Number 37

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A companion piece to my 2021 series on chromolitho fortune telling postcards of the early 20th century, this page presents "Fortune Series Number 37" -- known to collectors as "Halloween Witches Fortune Cards" and "Your Fortune Halloween Witch and Owls." In fact, nothing specifically ties this set of cards to Halloween, since every month in the year is shown, and instead of pumpkins, we see a weird landscape with a castle, owls, bats, a raven, and a wizard waving a magical rod over a campfire under the Moon, while before him stands a tail-up black cat, a copper tea kettle, a covered jar of potted meat, a tipped-over wine bottle, a porcelain cup, and a hunk of bread. Each card's text is fully transcribed, as is every card's symbolic gem, flower, zodiac sign, lucky months, and lucky days of the week.

After a year for Patrons to enjoy, this material will make its way to the public-facing pages of the Your Wate and Fate web site, which is dedicated to the unusual but traditional forms of fortune telling. If you are not yet familiar with the site, check it out!

http://yourwateandfate.com

Patrons have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #divination #vintagepostcards #zodiac #astrology #birthstones #languageofflowers

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week i have made a HUGE leap forward at The Mystic Tea Room. Fans will remember that there is a little Bibliography of tasseomancy books at the site, consisting of the titles that Gregory Lee White and i had previously cited in the one-page bibliography on page 96 of our own book "The Stranger in the Cup: How to Read Your Luck and Fate in the Tea Leaves," published by the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. in 2020. Well, i have a sizable collection of antique, vintage, and contemporary tea leaf guides, and i have been waiting for a long time to find the time to upload them with reviews and cover scans. This week's Patreon page is lengthy, fun to look at, and a bit spicy to read, as i veer between fan-girling my favourite authors and letting my curmudgeonly side loose in reviewing the worst of the worst. Patrons get this bibliographic monstrosity a full year before the public. Read it all now before i change my mind and tone down some of the curse-words!

"The Tea Leaf Reading Bibliography Expansion Set" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 14thth, 2023, at which point it will be unlocked for their intellectual edification..

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

After a year for Patrons to enjoy, this material will make its way to the public-facing pages of The Mystic Tea Room web site, which is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/The_Mystic_Tea_Room

Patrons can access exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum! To comment on this week's new pages, please go to jump on over to my private Patreon forum.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

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Follow me on Facebook at

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and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this wen page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearoome #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[Oudy]

Good Day,

Mrs. Yronwode:

I read the tea leaf reading and it's mind blowing. My mind is trying to adjust to this fascinating spiritual tool. I enjoy your writing.

Sincerely,

[catherineyronwode]

Oudy, Thanks for your kind words. I hope you enjoy part TWO of the tea leaf bibliography -- and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



MORE TEA LEAF READING BIBLIOGRAPHY! (Tier 3 JUNE 21st, 2022)

This week i am continuing my work for The Mystic Tea Room. Last week's huge annotated and illustrated Bibliography of books on tea leaf reading was NOT the end of the ride! I simply ran out of time, and here i am back with the follow-up -- Part Two. This week's installment is a bit shorter than last week's, but it is every bit as thorough. Names and dates have been researched, i have swooned over rarities, and if i don't like a waste of paper, i bluntly say so. Part Two concludes, for now, the enormous task of reviewing every tea-leaf reading book i own, and is available for one year to Patrons only. This gives y'all time to haunt eBay for bargains before the list goes public and the sellers start to adjust their prices to reflect each book's rarity and desirability.

"More Tea Leaf Reading Bibliography" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 21st 2023, at which point it will be unlocked for their visual and literary delectation.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

After a year for Patrons to enjoy, this material will make its way to the public-facing pages of The Mystic Tea Room web site, which is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/The_Mystic_Tea_Room

Patrons can access exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum! To comment on this week's new pages, please go to jump on over to my private Patreon forum.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

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Follow me on Facebook at

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearoom #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we journey to Georgia to witness the Cunjer Wars of the late 19th century, as reported by the white archaeologist and folklorist Roland Steiner. His perspective on African-American magic is influenced by his years as an enslaver and Confederate soldier, but his reportage is precise and accurate, and not influenced in any way by academic theorizing.

ROLAND STEINER: OBSERVATIONS ON CONJURING IN GEORGIA, 1901, from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1901 (Collected from 1878 - 1899)

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes conjure, root doctoring, and witchcraft as practiced among formerly enslaved and recently emancipated people of African descent in the state of Georgia prior to 1900. Detailed accounts of several cunjer doctors personally known to the author are given, including their names and locations, making this a valuable research document for genealogists. The accounts of several cunjer wars comprise most of the text, but there are dozens of cursing, protective, and curing spells included as well. Techniques involve making cunjer bags, scattering herbs and graveyard dirt, laying tricks in a person's path, and crafting spiritual poisons.

The Southern Spirits web site includes material about hoodoo gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, and fragments extracted from novels and short stories, annotated with interpretive and comparative notes. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://southernspirits.org

My Patrons have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum which enable discussions with me about the ongoing Patreon page publications. If you are a Patron, come on over to the Private Forum for "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog" and we can talk about the project:

http://forum.luckymojo.com/private-patr ... -f237.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hoodoo #conjure #witchcraft #rootwork #divination #folklore

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



"Your Wate and Fate" is a website i am building to describe and teach unusual forms of fortune telling and character-reading. This week i have created a brand-new, fully illustrated teaching guide to the theory and practice of divination by means of Self Muscle Testing, also known as Applied Kinesiology, Spiritual Kinesiology, or Applied Kinesthesiology. Eight different methods are explained and shown, and there is also a bonus section on Muscle Reading or Hellstromism for clients.

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After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will make its way to the public-facing pages of the Your Wate and Fate website. If you are not yet familiar with the site, check it out!

http://yourwateandfate.com

Patrons have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #divination #muscletesting #kinesiology #hellstromism

[catherineyronwode]

For those who are curious about this week's Patreon page and why i chose to write it -- it grew out of the brief outline on muscle testing i wrote for the podcast i did with ConjureMan and Maranda Tarot on the previous Sunday, July 3rd, 2022. During the show we spoke about Kinesiology and i provided a schematic review of the topic and its various methods.

Find the podcast thread, with links to the both the audio and the brief written outline here:

LMHRHour CHAT LOG July 3 Oracle Hour Muscle Testing Applied Kinesiology
lmhrhour-chat-log-july-3-oracle-hour-mu ... 97558.html

At the time i said i would be writing a lot more about the method and taking pictures for an expanded article -- and here it is. My extra two days of writing, our photography session, and nagasiva's help with photo-editing, were funded by my Patreon supporters, so they get a one-year advance look at it.

Thank you, Patrons!

[nagasiva]

Hello, folks! I've got a surprise for you in "It's All Ephemera"!



Back in 1994 i started an online project i called "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo." Its purpose was to document African-American hoodoo folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century blues lyrics, and, conversely, to use the provenance of the songs to establish that the practice of hoodoo, including its characteristic spiritual supplies, spell methods, and foundational concepts, is African-American.

The site is here:

http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing a new page ...
but you can't click on it, because it is for Patrons only.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #folkmagic

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week you can go to

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/Having_Yo ... a_Tea_Room

to read the delightful history and practice of tea leaf readers telling fortunes for clients in tea rooms and restaurants. And please, consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on writing "It's All Ephemera!"
#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, folks! More song lyrics in "It's All Ephemera"!


I am getting farther into "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo," documenting African-American hoodoo folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century blues lyrics. This week we go back almost 100 years, to hear what kind of spells were being used -- and sung about -- back then. And, to make it even better, a playable audio file is included so you can sing along as the curses are thrown.

The site is here:

http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #spellcasting

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week you can go to

https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Vint ... ook_Covers

to find the revised public page "From the Land of Tea" -- and please, consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on writing "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, folks! I am down to the deadline on my workshop for the 2022 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, with just enough time for the Blues in "It's All Ephemera"!



This week i am bringing you another song transcription for the "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" collection, in which i document African-American hoodoo folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century blues lyrics. This week we travel back to 1935, to hear what kind of spells were being used -- and sung about -- in Alabama. And, to make it more fun, an MP3 audio file is included so you can sing along with the great piano player Walter Roland.

The site is here:

http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://yourwateandfate.com/In_the_Realm_of_the_Readers

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom #intherealmofthereaders

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

Released! http://yourwateandfate.com/Madam_Stonar

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom #intherealmofthereaders

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



It's been a while, but this week my Patrons will receive Part Three of our four-part husband-and-wife collaboration on the resurrection, restoration, and interpretation of the amazing "How To Tell Fortunes" Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg, from 1929. This is an illustrated guide to 79 figures found in tea cups, and what they mean.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

We have previously covered the Astrology and Cartomancy cards in this set, so stay tuned, because the series will conclude with an equally intensive mini-course in Palmistry. The uncredited author and artist of these cards had solid knowledge and a clever way of breaking complex methods down into easy-to follow instructions. You are going to love the lessons and the art.

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for just $2.00 per weekly article:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #cigarettecards #tealeafreading #teacups #tearoom #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[nagasiva]

Thanks to all the patrons!

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!




This week i am continuing my work for The Mystic Tea Room with a new article, "Viewing the Cup" -- inspired by my incredible lucky find of a circa 1940 King Features press photo that shows Nedra, a professional tea leaf reader in a New York City restaurant, in the act of telling a customer's fortune. By examining this large photo closely, we are able to learn a lot about Nedra and her method of tea leaf reading. If you love divination methods, you may be in for a surprise.

"Viewing the Cup" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not see it until August 14th, 2023, at which point it will be unlocked for their visual education.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearoom #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #divination #fortune telling #fortuneteller

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://yourwateandfate.com/Josephine_De ... _of_Dayton

to read about the mysterious and marvelous diviners of Dayton, Ohio — and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom #intherealmofthereaders

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week i am breaking out a new Patreon series at YIPPIE -- The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology -- as a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing. It's "The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part One at YIPPIE."

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

This illustrated and annotated web page delves into some of my favourite 19th and 20th century books on hypnotism! Getting these rarities logged online has been a lot of fun, and i anticipate several more passes before the work is completed and ready to show to the world.

The YIPPIE web site includes bibliographies on an array of occult and spiritual topics currently open to the public, for the aid of scholars, researchers, and students at http://yronwode.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:
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cat yronwode

#hypnotism #learnhypnotism #mesmerism #personalpower #psychology #rarebooks #selfhypnosis #autosuggestion

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week you can go find six web pages at:

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/Category: ... ve_Edition

to read the delightful history and practice of tea leaf readers telling fortunes for clients in tea rooms and restaurants. And please, consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on writing "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week it's "The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Two at YIPPIE," a continuation of a new Patreon series hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology -- as a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

This illustrated and annotated web page reveals more of my favourite 19th and 20th century books on hypnotism! There are rarities galore, some with rapturously beautiful cover art, and a couple that are exquisitely written by the inimitable Walter B. Gibson of "The Shadow" fame -- and happen to have the ugliest covers in my collection!

The YIPPIE web site includes bibliographies on an array of occult and spiritual topics and is currently open to the public, for the aid of scholars, researchers, and students at http://yronwode.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:
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Please follow me on Facebook at
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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hypnotism #learnhypnotism #mesmerism #personalpower #psychology #rarebooks #selfhypnosis #autosuggestion

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



Nagasiva and i have started a brand new project, and this week my Patrons will receive Part One of our four-part husband-and-wife collaboration on Floriography, the Victorian Language of Flowers. Drawing upon the knowledge contained in the antique 19th century books in my collection, and using up-to-date colour imaging, we present our own ephemera-in-the-making: "The Floral Oracle, or Fortunes in Flowers" by catherine and nagasiva yronwode. Will it be a book? Will it be a card deck? My Patrons will help me decide -- and their financial contributions are crucial to its final publication.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for just $2.00 per weekly article:

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #floraloracle #fortunesinflowers #floriography #languageofflowers

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://southernspirits.org/wiki/index.p ... _Co.,_1959

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #whenhoodoowasillegal #southernspirits

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



Nagasiva and i are half-way through our current project, and this week my Patrons will receive Part Two of our four-part husband-and-wife collaboration on Floriography, the Language of Flowers. This week we give you a new format -- for your voting pleasure -- as we present our own ephemera-in-the-making: "The Floral Oracle, or Fortunes in Flowers" by catherine and nagasiva yronwode. Will it be a book? Will it be a card deck? My Patrons will help me decide -- and their financial contributions are crucial to its final publication.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for just $2.00 per weekly article:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #floraloracle #fortunesinflowers #floriography #languageofflowers

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://yourwateandfate.com/Palmistry_and_Palm_Readers

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom #intherealmofthereaders

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[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



Here we are with "The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Three at YIPPIE," in which i do a deep-dive series of reviews of some of the stranger byways of 20th century "modern" hypnotism, including the book that led to the creation of the CIA's MKULTRA project and "The Manchurian Candidate" and the book that proposed that the British Minister of Transport should enlist the BBC Radio service to enforce mass-hypnotism on the English populace in the interest of road safety.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

This illustrated and annotated web page is a continuation of a Patreon series hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology -- as a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing.

The YIPPIE web site includes bibliographies on an array of occult and spiritual topics and is currently open to the public, for the aid of scholars, researchers, and students at http://yronwode.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hypnotism #learnhypnotism #mesmerism #personalpower #psychology #rarebooks #selfhypnosis #autosuggestion

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week, i am unleashing a page on Floriography or The Language of Flowers and a beautiful gallery of antique floriographic postcards from 1910. Find them at
http://yourwateandfate.com/Floriography ... of_Flowers
and
http://yourwateandfate.com/Series_M-6_F ... by_E._Nash

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

And, once again, thank you, my Patrons, for making this possible.

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #floraloracle #fortunesinflowers #floriography #languageofflowers

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Dear divination fans --

Because there are soon to be a dozen public pages at YourWateAndFate.com, i have revamped the look for the top page / home page / main page at the site.

Every link is now set into rows and fully clickable, if its page has been released, or neatly stacked up for view if it is still hidden behind the Patreon paywall for a while.

Check it out at https://YourWateAndFate.com

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week, i am unleashing a page on Cartomancy postcards from 1907 by Fred C. Lounsbury. Find it at
http://yourwateandfate.com/Cartomancy_P ... _Lounsbury
and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

And, once again, thank you, my Patrons, for making this possible.

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #playingcards #cartomancy #carddivination #cardoracles

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week my Patrons will receive Part Four -- Palmistry -- which marks the conclusion of our four-part husband-and-wife collaboration on the resurrection, restoration, and interpretation of the excellent "How To Tell Fortunes" Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg, from 1929. This week we present a 6-card illustrated guide to the mounts, lines, and other markings of the hand, and what they mean.

The whole set of 25 Fortune Telling Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg is now complete! The uncredited author and artist of these cards had solid knowledge and a clever way of breaking complex methods down into easy-to-follow instructions. You are going to love the lessons and the art.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for just $2.00 per weekly article:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #cigarettecards #palmistry #handreading #cheiromancy #palmreading

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://southernspirits.org/wiki/index.p ... _Co.,_1956

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #whenhoodoowasillegal #southernspirits

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Yronwode Institution: Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Four (Patreon Tier 1, October 7, 2022)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!

"The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Four at YIPPIE," is a continuation of the Patreon series hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology as a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

This illustrated web page takes a deep dive into the hypnotic career of Melvin Powers (1922-2013), the author of many popular books on hypnosis and auto-suggestion, the inventor of the electrically-powered Hypnodisc, the man who brought us the original "Hypnotic Rain" recording that gave rise to today's ASMR craze, and the publisher of more hypnotism books by classic and contemporary writers than you can fit on your book shelf. For 65 years no one did more to bring hypnotism before the public -- and this week, i am presenting some of his best work in the form of annotated reviews and cover illustrations. A mentor and friend to many, Melvin Powers deserves a full biography, but until one is written, this bibliography will help to keep his memory alive.

The YIPPIE web site includes bibliographies on an array of occult and spiritual topics and is currently open to the public, for the aid of scholars, researchers, and students at http://yronwode.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:
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Please follow me on Facebook at
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and on Instagram at
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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hypnotism #learnhypnotism #mesmerism #personalpower #psychology #rarebooks #selfhypnosis #autosuggestion

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week you can find a new web page on American Tea Rooms at:

https://mystictearoom.com/wiki/American_Tea_Rooms

to read the delightful history and practice of tea leaf readers telling fortunes for clients in tea rooms and restaurants. And please, consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on writing "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



It's another journey into the bygone tea rooms of 20th century America, this time in Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. On today's trip we will visit a tea room based on a once famous radio show, two Chinese tea rooms, one Japanese tea room that served Chinese food, and an American tea room that used Japanese imagery but served only "home cooking."

"Gone But Not Forgotten Tea Room Business Cards and Signs" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until October 14th, 2023, at which point it will be unlocked for their wonderment.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com/

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

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and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week, i am unveiling an illustrated page that will teach you Astrology -- as presented in a set of 1929 Fortune Telling Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg. Find it at
http://yourwateandfate.com/1929_Fortune ... r_and_Bigg

and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

And, once again, thank you, my Patrons, for making this possible.

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #playingcards #cartomancy #carddivination #cardoracles #astrology #cigarettecards

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



"The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Five at YIPPIE," is the latest episode in my crazy, long-running, in-depth Hypnotism History series hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology as a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

This episode brings us a small but select group of Scientists, Svengalis, and Showmen who have written rare books on hypnosis. As always, my reviews are illustrated and annotated. The aim is not merely to catalogue, but also to educate and entertain -- and whether you are a hypnotist or not, this tour through my personal hypnotism library, gathered over the course of 60 years, will certainly get you to thinking about the nature of your own mind.

The YIPPIE web site includes bibliographies on an array of occult and spiritual topics and is currently open to the public, for the aid of scholars, researchers, and students at http://yronwode.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at
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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#hypnotism #learnhypnotism #mesmerism #personalpower #psychology #rarebooks #selfhypnosis #autosuggestion

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we venture North to Pennsylvania to learn about Alta C. Meskell, an "Indian Herbalist" and self-declared "physician" born in 1875 who got busted by the Food and Drug Administration for selling herbal medicines -- and lucky for us, the FDA analyzed and recorded the ingredients of each and every one of her formulas!

ALTA C. MESKELL, THE INDIAN HERBALIST OF PENNSYLVANIA
(Collected from Pennsylvania Newspapers and FDA files, 1935 - 1949)

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural root doctoring and herbal medicine in the early to mid 20th century. Newspaper clippings accompany accounts of Mrs. Meskell's life, arrest, conviction, and sentencing for selling
her home-grown herbal teas and other simple, folkloric remedies

The Southern Spirits web site includes material about hoodoo gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, and fragments extracted from novels and short stories, annotated with interpretive and comparative notes. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://southernspirits.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#herbs #rootwork #herbalmedicine #folklore #folkmedicine

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write new web pages every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week, i am unveiling an illustrated page that will teach you Card Reading -- as presented in a set of 1929 Fortune Telling Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg. Find it at
http://yourwateandfate.com/1929_Fortune ... r_and_Bigg

and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

And, once again, thank you, my Patrons, for making this possible.

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #playingcards #cartomancy #carddivination #cardoracles #cardreading #cigarettecards #cardreading

Follow us on Instagram @catherineyronwode and @luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



Nagasiva and i are three-quarters of the way through our current project on Fortunes-in-Flowers, the Language of Flowers -- and this week my Patrons will receive Part Three of our four-part husband-and-wife collaboration: "The Floral Oracle, or Fortunes in Flowers" by catherine and nagasiva yronwode. Thank you, Patrons! Your financial contributions are crucial to this work's publication.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for as little as $2.00 per weekly article:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

https://www.facebook.com/catherineyronwode
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #floraloracle #fortunesinflowers #floriography #languageofflowers

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



Nagasiva and i have finished part four of our current project on the Language of Flowers! We originally thought we would finish in four parts, but we have decided to push on to a glorious 104 flowers, giving us two for every week in the year. This week my Patrons will receive the penultimate portion of this happy husband-and-wife collaboration: "The Floral Oracle, or Fortunes in Flowers" by catherine and nagasiva yronwode. Thank you, Patrons! Your financial contributions are crucial to our work's publication.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

After one year, my Patreon-supported pages open to the public at the "Your Wate and Fate" web site, so check them out at

http://yourwateandfate.com

Become my Patron and receive links to exclusive new magical and folkloric web pages for as little as $2.00 per weekly article:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

https://www.facebook.com/catherineyronwode
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #fortuneteller #divination #floraloracle #fortunesinflowers #floriography #languageofflowers

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and welcome to "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we have an interview with a man of mixed Black, Choctaw, and French ancestry who was known as the "Indian Herb Doctor" of Marion, Illinois. In 1941 he was interviewed by a local writer named Beulah M. DeVard for a never-published book, "The Negro in Illinois." For more than 80 years, her faded manuscript pages lay crumbling in a library archive. Now, thanks to digitization and the support of my Patrons, we have transcribed this forgotten piece of herbal history for the benefit of all.

MACK CLEVE CHAVOUS, THE INDIAN HERB DOCTOR
(Collected from WPA files, 1941)

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural African-American and Native root doctoring and herbal medicine in the early to mid 20th century. Faded carbon typscripts and U.S. Census records accompany the story of Mr. Chauvous's life.

The Southern Spirits web site includes material about hoodoo gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, and fragments extracted from novels and short stories, annotated with interpretive and comparative notes. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://southernspirits.org

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $2.00 per week:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Please follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you make these pages possible.

cat yronwode

#herbs #herbalism #herbalmedicine #rootwork #folklore #folkmedicine

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://www.southernspirits.org/southern ... g1899.html

to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #whenhoodoowasillegal #southernspirits

Follow us on Instagram
@catherineyronwode
and
@luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week, the Mystic Tea Room is proud to present a gallery of Old English Tea Rooms on vintage postcards. Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/England_Tea_Rooms

to find the newly public page, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #themystictearoom

Follow us on Instagram
@catherineyronwode
and
@luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week we tour the tea rooms of California, from the days of the great earthquake and fire in 1906 through the Covid pandemic of 2020. On today's trip we will visit Hollywood, Pasadena, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa, and see tea room culture as it was.

"Tea Rooms of Old California" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until November 28th, 2023, at which point it will be open to their wondering gaze.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week we tour the tea rooms of California, from the days of the great earthquake and fire in 1906 through the Covid pandemic of 2020. On today's trip we will visit Hollywood, Pasadena, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa, and see tea room culture as it was.

"Tea Rooms of Old California" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until November 28th, 2023, at which point it will be open to their wondering gaze.

https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Patr ... _Tea_Rooms

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, there is a new web page on The Conjure Doctors of Virginia, a memoir written in 1898 by Rev. Daniel Webster Davis, at
http://southernspirits.org/davis-folklo ... ogy-4.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #whenhoodoowasillegal #southernspirits #virginiaconjures

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[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!

Today's new Patreon sneak-peek page is "Domino and Dice Postcards by Fred C. Lounsbury," a companion to the previously released Lounsbury "Cartomancy" set.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $2.00 per week and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#fortunetelling #divination #psychicreading #vintagegraphics #vintagepostcards #postcards #dominoes #dice

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week we explore the tea rooms of rugged Scotland, where, despite the rough weather, drinking tea outdoors is a summertime treat. Scotland is famous for its many battles and historical markers, and there seems to be a tea room nearby to each and every one of them.

"Old Tea Rooms of Scotland" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until December 21st, 2023, at which point it will be open to all, as a souvenir of times gone by.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintagepostcards #vintagetearooms #vintagearchitecture

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, there is a new web page featuring an interview from 1937 with Mrs. Duncan, in which she describes the Kentucky conjure doctors of her youth, at

http://southernspirits.org/duncan-glass ... tucky.html

Born into slavery prior to 1855, she documents the use of silver dimes, horseshoes, herbs, and a glass pistol in hoodoo spells of protection and curing.

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#divination #tealeafreading #hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #southernspirits #kentuckyconjures #silverdime

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[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



As 2023 approaches, this week's Patreon sneak-peek page is "New Year Fortunes on Good Luck Dice Postcards." Learn how dice are used to read fortunes at the New Year -- and how in times gone by these mini-readings became little artistic masterpieces that conveyed secret messages through the mail.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $2.00 per week and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

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and
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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#fortunetelling #divination #psychicreading #vintagegraphics #vintagepostcards #postcards #dominoes #dice

[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



The new year, 2023, is here, so this week's Patreon sneak-peek page is the "E. Nash Gem Birthday Series 1" -- a rare set of 12 gilded and embossed chromolitho postcards from 1908 that predict happiness and showcase a gemstone and a flower for every month of the year. Yes, no matter what your birth date, these cards will bring you nothing but joy, happiness, and doggerel poetry. Tons of scanning and cleanup went into this production and we hope you love it.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $2.00 per week and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#fortunetelling #divination #psychicreading #vintagegraphics #vintagepostcards #postcards #floriography #gemstones

[nagasiva]

Thanks to troubleshooting by Jocelyn Waters and the assistance of Deacon Millett, we have identified and fixed a serious problem at the YourWateAndFate website.

When we changed servers in late October 2022, some of the Patrons-Only pages, as well as some of the publically-available pages suddenly required an administrator login to be seen. These have now all been fixed and a complete list of these pages that were made inaccessible in error, which are now available, was sent to patrons in email.

This is just another example of the power of Mercury Retrograde to mess up communications and require messages to be made a second time.

Nagasiva and Catherine Yronwode

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to the support of my Patrons, there is a new web page online at SouthernSpirits.org that tells the sad but true story of how, more than 135 years ago, a man posing as a "hoodoo doctor" defrauded an innocent victim. Find it at:

http://southernspirits.org/anon-negro-a ... -1885.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #southernspirits #whenhoodoowasillegal #southernspirits

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[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to the support of my Patrons, there is a new web page online at SouthernSpirits.org that features Lula Taylor, born in slavery, who tells how her mother was conjured in the days before Emancipation. Find it at:

http://southernspirits.org/taylor-mother-conjured.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#hoodoo #folkmagic #conjure #imadethis #southernspirits #conjure #folkmedicine #folklore #herbalism

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[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week's Patreon sneak-peek page is the "Farben (Colour) series S-618" by Liebig Beef Extract -- a sweet set of 6 gilded chromolitho trade cards from 1900 that show the symbolism of colours in nature and in art. We scanned and cleaned up the images and added a short history of the publisher, plus some genuine occult lore on colour magic.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $2.00 per week and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#fortunetelling #divination #psychicreading #vintagegraphics #vintagepostcards #postcards #floriography #gemstones

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



When one thinks of tea rooms in Virginia, the idea of British Colonial high tea no doubt comes to mind -- and indeed, we do tour a tea room planted on the site of George Washington's birthplace -- but Virginia is more diverse than you might imagine, with a Japanese tea room, a cozy Blue Jay auto court tea room, a tea room hidden in a garden, a dramatically coloured service station tea room, and, of course, for no reason at all, a tea room named after the Ella Cinders comic strip, with her picture on the signage! Come along and join the fun -- and learn a little bit about how tea rooms fit in with the National Park Service, silent movies, and Esso Standard Products.

"Old Virginia Tea Rooms" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until January 21st, 2024, at which point it will be open to all, as a souvenir of times gone by.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at

https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintagepostcards #vintagetearooms #vintagearchitecture

[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



Aren't these little flower-girls from 1910 just the sweetest? We think so! What's more, they convey the mystical meanings of popular flowers, from back in the day, 110 years ago, when the occult was as cute as a button and cost just a penny to mail anywhere in the USA. We scanned and cleaned up the images and added a short history of the publisher, plus some links to our other pages on arcane flower lore.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE THE PAGE IS PUBLISHED]

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $2.00 per week and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook and Instagram at:

https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#thelanguageofflowers #fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintagepostcards #cutechildren