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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Jan 15, 2023 4:03 am

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.

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"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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Jan 22, 2023 1:36 am

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.

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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

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:32 am

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.

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"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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:04 am

Thanks to the support of my Patrons, there is a new public web page online at SouthernSpirits.org that describes conjure, root doctoring, and witchcraft among enslaved and emancipated people of African descent in Knoxville Tennessee and rural Texas. The narrator, Patsy Moses, was born into slavery and was interviewed by a member of the Federal Writer's Project in 1937, when she was 74 years old. She was a gifted story-teller, and her memories of the conjure remedies told to her by her grandfather Ned Butler are beautifully recounted. Her mythological tale of the origins of the Barred Owl, as well her tales of Hallowe'en games and the interpretations of dreams, provide rare and wonderful glimpses into the folkloric beliefs of African-American conjure in the mid-to late 19th century.
Find it at:

http://southernspirits.org/moses-tennes ... njure.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!"

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:11 am

Thanks to the support of my Patrons, there is a vastly enlarged public version of the illustrated and annotated New Thought Bibliography, describing important books and authors of the New Thought Movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. Look for a great deal of additional text and many photos, notes on the 12-volume "Personal Power Books" collaboration between William Walker Atkinson and Edward E. Beals of 1922, and, for the first time ever, some solid information about the rather obscure Mr. Beals.

Find it now at:
https://yronwode.org/New_Thought_Bibliography

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:15 am

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

If you think that locating and cleaning up postcard images for ancient tea rooms is difficult, wait until you start trying to collect business cards for these evanescent and historical businesses and cleaning them up to the condition of bright newness that web browsers desire and require. Suffice it to say, working long hours, we proudly present an even dozen new tea room business cards images for Patrons today, ranging from 1907 through Mid-Century Modern, and located in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The new material is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until February 7th, 2024, at which point it will be open to all, one of many souvenirs of ephemeral times gone by.

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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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:35 pm

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

"Your Wate and Fate" returns once again to the lost world of the psychic readers, numerologists, clairvoyants, astrologers, spirit mediums, tea leaf readers, and cartomancers of the 19th and 20th centuries, revealing their existence through the business cards, flyers, and newspaper advertisements that preceded today's digital social media. A collection of this nature is unusual, to say the least, and we appreciate the support that Your Wate and Fate is gaining from today's psychics, who wish to learn about our spiritual ancestors.

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A whole new swath of ancient psychic ephemera is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until February 14th, 2024, at which point it will be open to all as a memento of occultists gone by.

"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:

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:16 am

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. Here you have the first of my many upcoming collections of postcard sets that contain astrological, floral, and gemstone character readings for the months of the year, often accompanied by poetic verse. There will be more of these to come, when you least expect them!

http://yourwateandfate.com/Sentiments_o ... k_and_Sons

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.

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:44 pm

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. Read the page below to for a brief look at the terminology used by those who tell fortunes and those who receive them and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

http://yourwateandfate.com/Defining_Divination

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Feb 28, 2023 10:57 pm

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. Read the page below to for a brief look at the terminology used by those who tell fortunes and those who receive them and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep working on "It's All Ephemera!"

http://yourwateandfate.com/Categorizing_Cards

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Mar 01, 2023 3:57 am

This week in "It's All Ephemera" we catch up on "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice in Progress," with a complicated annotation to what seems on the surface to be a very simple mojo hand. In this 1938 interview with Informant #863, The Unkus Man, the folklorist Harry M. Hyatt wanders into the weeds and runs afoul of language and concepts for which he was not quite prepared. A little bit of background knowledge makes it all clear, and the true story of "Dr. Delong" and the "leather pell tellman caseman" is revealed. If you like your hoodoo with a sprinkling of kabbalah on the side, you'll love this one!

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural root doctoring in the early 20th century.

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice at the Lucky Mojo web site includes material about hoodoo and root magic gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, songs, 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://luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Mar 08, 2023 1:55 am

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice: Needles, Pins, and Nails, Tier 1 March 7th, 2023

This week in "It's All Ephemera" the pile of electrons known as "A Hoodoo Hand" is shuffled and dealt -- and the winner is once more "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice in Progress," as i present "Needles, Pins, and Nails," another unwritten chapter of my free online book about African American folk magic. In this episode, the domestic side of conjure is revealed, with a long exegesis on why pins and needles are not the same and how that affects their uses in spell-work. This being an ephemera-centric page, the illustrations are many, varied, and, above all vintage. If you are not a Patron, you will just have to wait, because ...

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:39 am

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

"The Hypnotism Bibliography, Part Six at YIPPIE," is the latest episode in my slightly obsessive and magnificently illustrated Hypnotism History series, hosted at The Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology. It's a one-year Patreon exclusive for those who financially support my writing and research. (And no, we're not through with this crazy project yet!)

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This time the spotlighted authors run the gamut from showmen to scientists -- just random folks whose rare and valuable books on hypnosis have landed in my untidy office. As always, my reviews are illustrated and annotated. Consider this a would-be want-list for the aspiring hypnotist within you, and take a tour through my personal hypnotism library, gathered over the course of 60 years.

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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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:37 am

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

Your Wate and Fate: CRYSTAL BALLS IN FILM! Tier 3 MARCH 21st, 2023

"Your Wate and Fate" goes to the movies to take a first look at the 20th century's slightly weird obsession with Crystal Balls in Film! From comedies and musicals to action dramas, crime thrillers, and heart-warming family features, crystal balls of all sizes -- but only one shape -- were everywhere in Hollywood from the silent 1910s to the Great Odometer Roll-Over. This collection of annotated images is just the tip of the crystal, and there will be lots more to come as we scan, clean, upload, and identify the turbaned fortune tellers and bejewelled prophetesses who made the movies great.

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until March 21st, 2024, but 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:

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **deaconmillett** » Mon Mar 27, 2023 9:42 am

I really enjoyed this. It felt just like sitting on the floor and passing the photos around. ))

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:30 am

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

"Your Wate and Fate" takes in a fast-paced second feature as we continue our look at the 20th century's eccentric portrayal of Crystal Balls in Film! This time the focus is on Niko Tinbergen and the Supernormal Stimuli -- crystal balls so large that entire people can be seen within. Yes, from "The Mask of Fu Manchu" and "The Return of Chandu" to "The Wizard of Oz," it's time to break out the Big Balls! This collection of annotated images in which fortune telling meets iconic pop culture, is not the last of our visions, for there are still more cinematic crystals to scan, clean, upload, and identify, and we have not yet reached the end of the turbaned racketeers and veiled prophetesses who made the movies marvelous.

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until March 28th, 2024, but 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:

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Cordially,

cat yronwode

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freda222 · Unread post by **freda222** » Fri Apr 07, 2023 3:53 pm

Hello Miss Cat,

Just signed up as a patron member. Just writing to have my email address ( gomezam86@yahoo.com) added so that I can gain access to the private forum. Thanks and looking forward to the membership!

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Apr 08, 2023 4:18 am

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

The Crystal Ball Film Festival continues as "Your Wate and Fate" brings you Part Three of the 20th century's weird and wacky Crystal Balls in the Movies! This week we dive deep into Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror, and Murder with a brand-new collection of annotated images in which fortune telling meets iconic pop culture -- and there'll be more to come, as we continue to uncover the turbaned racketeers and eerie enchantresses of cinema!

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until April 7th, 2024, but 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:

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 12:18 am

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

The Crystal Ball Film Festival concludes -- for now! -- as "Your Wate and Fate" presents Part Four of the 20th century's strange, creepy, sentimental, horrific, and seriously wacked fascination with Crystal Balls in the Movies! This week we have assembled another trove of Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Mystery with a never-before-seen collection of annotated images in which fortune tellers run wild in the streets, committing every crime from fraud and blackmail to suicide and murder! These rare posters, lobby cards, and publicity stills tear the turbans off of the sinister swamis of yester-year! Catch them if you can!

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until April 14th, 2024, but 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:

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cat yronwode

#divination #folkmagic #yourwateandfate #psychicreading #crystalgazing #fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintageadvertisements #vintagelobbycards #vintagemovies

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 1:38 am

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

The Crystal Ball Film Festival is back! -- as "Your Wate and Fate" presents Part Five of Hollywood's strange obsession with Crystallomancy in Cinema! We thought we had reached the end last week, but that prediction proved premature, as dozens more rare posters, lobby cards, and publicity stills came tumbling out of the vaults to enlighten, surprise, offend, and scare the whiskers off of today's internet occultists. You'll believe it when you see it, and for a couple of dollars a week, you WILL see it, as we bring you Hollywood's most exciting array of movie metaphysicians, staring into the darling bane of prop masters everywhere, the lucent Crystal Ball.

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until April 21st, 2024, but 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:

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 1:37 pm

You know, i have been writing new Patreon pages every week since January 2021, and it's a shame that fewer than 100 people get to see these special features. So far, as of today, 119 of these new pages have been published, thanks to my Patrons!

Eventually, after a year, i do edit them and place them before the public for free, but if you have a couple of bucks to spare ($8.00 per month), i guarantee i will give you four fantastic new illustrated web pages every month on occultism, spirituality, divination, fortune telling, herb magic, hoodoo history, and metaphysics in popular culture.

Don't take my word for it -- more than 50 of these pages are now public, so check out what has ALREADY been released by going to any of my Patreon-sponsored web sites. Each site has a different theme -- from tea leaf reading to the ways in which the USDA tried to destroy herbal medicine, and from conjure spells as related by former slaves to Hollywood's crazy crystal balls.

http://YourWateandFate.com
"Your Wate and Fate" --
The Material Culture of Popular Fortune Telling.

http://SouthernSpirits.org
"Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog" --
Hoodoo History Told Through Rare Primary Documents.

http://TheMysticTeaRoom.com
"The Mystic Tea Room" --
Fortune Telling Tea Cups, Tea Leaf Reading, and Vintage Tea Rooms.

http://HerbMagic.com
"Leaves from the Root Doctor''s Garden" --
Historical Herb Doctors of Yore

http://Yronwode.org
"The Yronwode Institution" --
Bibliographies on Occult, Metaphyisical, and Divinatory Topics

Without the help of my Patrons, none of these sites or pages would exist -- so please, consider supporting me as i uncover the hidden material culture of magic and fortune telling in America.

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Apr 28, 2023 3:10 pm

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

My new book, "Astrology for Rootworkers," will be distributed in the goody boxes of the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th (get your tickets now!) and it will go on sale via bookstores shortly thereafter. Because part of the book reprints the texts of the great Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965), this week "Your Wate and Fate" is hosting the heavily illustrated contents of my 12 years of research into the life and works of this remarkable man -- the inventor of Sun-Sign Astrology! My Patrons are funding this project, and now, more than ever, i want to express my thanks to all of you who have helped me complete these occult web pages. This week: "Professor A. F. Seward, Part One"!

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This amazing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 10th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at: http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon May 08, 2023 2:13 am

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

My new book, "Astrology for Rootworkers," is at press now and will be distributed at the 2023 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th. (Get your tickets now!) Because part of the book reprints material by the great Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965), this week "Your Wate and Fate" is hosting more images and text drawn from my 12 years of research into the life and works of this remarkable man -- the inventor of Sun-Sign Astrology! My Patrons are funding this project, and now, more than ever, i want to express my thanks to all of you who have helped me complete these occult web pages. This week: "Professor A. F. Seward, Part Two" -- Prof. Seward is charged with mail fraud and his marriage is dissolved!

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This amazing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 9th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at:

http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon May 15, 2023 12:06 am

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

As part of the launch of my book, "Astrology for Rootworkers," which will be distributed at the 2023 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th, i am developing a heavily illustrated bio-bibliography commemorating Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965) for the public to marvel at. This week "Your Wate and Fate" features yet more photos, artwork, and text drawn from my 12 years of serious research into the life of the man who invented Sun-Sign Astrology! My Patrons have been funding this project, and once again i want to express my humble indebtedness to those who have helped me compile this important historical web page. This week in "Professor A. F. Seward, Part Three" we begin to see how his interest in ancient Egyptology and contemporary Arabic culture led him to produce horoscopes "In the Shadow of the Mosque."

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This growing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 9th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at:

http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon May 22, 2023 2:38 am

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

"Astrology for Rootworkers" has shipped from the printers and will debut at the 2023 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th, as nagasiva and i continue to expand our heavily illustrated bio-bibliography honouring Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965). We have to have the page finished by the time the book is released to the public, and we are adding new images and text daily. This week "Your Wate and Fate" offers more photos, artwork, and text drawn from my 12 years of obsessed research into the life of the eccentric Scorpio who invented Sun-Sign Astrology! My Patrons have been funding this project, and also want to thank Faith Elliott, who found me through social media, another Seward fan, who is in correspondence with me and contributing a whole lot of biographical information as we compile this complex historical web page. This week in "Professor A. F. Seward, Part Four" we take a stroll on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and venture out to Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. And there is still a LOT more to come -- and two more weeks before we open to the public!

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This growing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 9th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at:

http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat May 27, 2023 2:59 pm

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. Read the page below for 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.

https://southernspirits.org/wiki/index. ... _from_1875

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun May 28, 2023 11:30 pm

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

Nagasiva and i have added more content and more images to our obsessively illustrated and annotated bio-bibliography, presenting Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965) to the modern astrological public. This is our FIFTH pass through the page in as many weeks, and we will make one more pass through before we release my new book, "Astrology for Rootworkers," at the 2023 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th, and release this monomaniacal web page for all to see. This week "Your Wate and Fate" offers more photos, artwork, and text drawn from my 12 years of unremitting research into the life of the secretive Scorpio who popularized Sun-Sign Astrology. My Patrons have been funding this project, and i also want to thank Faith Elliott, who found me through social media, and who is in correspondence with me and contributing biographical information as we compile this complex look at a man who had almost as many pseudonyms as he had birthplaces. This week in "Professor A. F. Seward, Part Five" we linger longer "Under the Shadow of the Mosque," where astrology infolds and Orientalism is in bloom. And there is still a LOT more to come -- one more week before we open to the public!

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This growing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 9th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at:

http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue May 30, 2023 11:57 pm

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, we leap into the past, exploring the tea rooms of bygone America, specifically 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.

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/Patreon_F ... _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!"

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:15 am

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

Nagasiva and i have piled on more text and more images to our profusely illustrated and annotated bio-bibliography of the "World's Foremost Astrologer," Prof. A. F. Seward (1877-1965). This week we present Prof. Seward to the modern astrological community in his role as a global tourist, who sought out and studied with elder astrologers in Egypt, India, and Japan during the era between the two World Wars. This is our SIXTH and FINAL pass through the A. F. Seward page before it debuts to the public this weekend when my own new book, "Astrology for Rootworkers," is distributed to attendees at the 2023 Virtual Hoodoo Heritage Festival, June 10th - 11th. At that point the A. F. Seward page will be free for all to see, and my book will go on sale world wide. This week "Your Wate and Fate" offers yet more photos and text drawn from my 12 years of unrelenting research into the life of the "World's Foremost Astrologer."

My Patrons have been funding this project, and i also want to again thank Faith Elliott, who is in correspondence with me and contributing biographical information as we compile this complex look at a man who had almost as many pseudonyms as he had birthplaces. This week, in "Professor A. F. Seward, Part Six," we take a peek at the myriad spots on the globe he touched down!

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This growing occult biography is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 9th, 2023, at which point it will be open to all as part of my "Astrology for Rootworkers" workshop at the 2023 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Tickets on sale at:

http://hoodooheritagefestival.com

"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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Thanks to my wonderful Patrons -- you have made this web page possible. (And, truth to tell, we will return to it in months to come, and continue to expand it until we have created a virtual A. F. Seward Museum online.)

Cordially,
cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 12:20 am

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

This week The Mystic Tea Room brings you a new Bibliography of Tasseomancy -- Booklets on tea leaf reading that were issued by Tea Companies, described and illustrated.Just send in your coupon -- a picture of Sir Thomas Lipton, and a 3-cent stamp!

This new web page is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until June 14thth, 2024, at which point it will be unlocked for their aesthetic appreciation.

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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.

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cat yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Jun 15, 2023 9:19 pm

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 bibliography of tasseomancy books and booklets, consisting of a sizable collection of antique, vintage, and contemporary tea leaf guides. It 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. Go to

http://mystictearoom.com/wiki/Bibliogra ... asseomancy

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:54 pm

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

This week, "Your Wate and Fate," jumps back, for the fourth time into the long-gone lives of the psychic readers, numerologists, clairvoyants, tea leaf readers, and cartomancers of the 19th and 20th centuries!

Three previous outings into "The Realm of the Readers" revealed a wide range of seers, both Black and White, from all around the country and the world. This time we visit a 1938 Fortune Tellers' Convention, and check in on a touring clairvoyant from Vienna, Prague, and Berlin who speaks many languages, and has amazed the crowned heads of Europe before fetching up in San Francisco, California, where she charges a dollar a reading to Ladies, and two dollars a reading to Gentlemen. It's all here, documented with business cards and photographs, for your enjoyment in "In the Realm of the Readers 4."

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"In the Realm of the Readers" is part of the Your Wate and Fate web site, which is dedicated to mechanical and personally-conducted fortune telling. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site. 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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Jun 23, 2023 4:30 pm

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's release 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 now that the list is public, y'all can go haunt eBay for bargains because starting today, the sellers will start to adjust their prices to reflect each book's rarity and desirability.

https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Bibl ... asseomancy

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 1:02 am

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

From 1910 through 1960, fortune telling machines were a common sight across America, from the Wate and Fate scale in your local Greyhound Bus station to the Exhibit Supply Company vending machine in the local bar that dispensed postcards showing hands of poker cards with their divinatory meanings. But it was Earl L. Crabb, the inventor of the Planetellus horoscope vending machine, who brought a real yearly horoscope for every sign of the zodiac to the small towns, the little restaurants, the taverns, and the tea shops of the American Midwest. Learn about this remarkable man, and see examples of the Planetellus horoscopes, this week at "Your Wate and Fate."

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. Every article at the web site has been made possible by my Patrons, and new pages open to the public regularly. 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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 11:11 pm

Thanks to the support of my Patrons, there is a new public web page online at SouthernSpirits.org that describes conjure, root doctoring, and witchcraft among enslaved and emancipated people of African descent in Georgia. 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 as well as rootworkers. 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. Find it at:

http://southernspirits.org/wiki/Roland_ ... rgia,_1901

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!"

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:56 pm

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

This week The Mystic Tea Room brings you one of those surprises that you get when you support a creative accumulator with Gemini Rising on Patreon -- an update to the USA Trains Billboard Reefers Checklist, featuring the artistry of Charles Ro. Eighty-thousand people have viewed this page since it first went online and now it has been updated with dozens more descriptions and illustrations!

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The revised version of this popular web page is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until July 7th, 2024, at which point it will be unlocked for their aesthetic appreciation. 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 ... and Garden Railways. 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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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:01 pm

And, yes, i will admit that this is the most random-seeming of all the Patreon web pages i have yet created. But, really, considering that i am a polymath, you just have to expect such things now and then.

The current version of the page is, of course, still open to the public, and it may be found at

https://mystictearoom.com/wiki/USA_Trai ... _Checklist

But the updated version is only available to Patrons, until 2024, when it too will go public.

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:29 pm

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 is 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.

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

http://yourwateandfate.com/Muscle_Testi ... thesiology

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:29 pm

This week i have a new song transcription for you from my "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 1927, to hear about a famous hoodoo drug store in Helena, Arkansas. And, to make it more fun, an MP3 audio file is included so you can sing along with the great piano player Arnold Wiley and his sister Irene.

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo 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.

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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:

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:14 am

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Your Wate and Fate: 20TH CENTURY GOOD LUCK TOKENS! Tier 3 JULY 28th, 2023

The 20th century was a time when lucky tokens, pocket pieces, and mascots were manufactured in vast quantities and given out to customers by companies of all kinds. Everyone believed in luck in those days, and these talismans, often called "Good Luck Coins," although they had no monetary value, were carefully saved by the folks who were got them. I have collected such exonumia for more than 50 years, and a couple of decades ago i put a few samples up for show at my Lucky Mojo site. This week i am sharing another batch of them, with commentary.

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 29, 2023 3:53 pm

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 blues lyrics and hoodoo. 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.

http://luckymojo.com/bluespennilessbluesroland.html

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Aug 07, 2023 2:16 pm

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 we release 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.

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.

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Your Wate and Fate -- Fortune Telling Cigarette Cards by Edwards, Ringer and Bigg, Part Three: Tea Leaf Reading

http://yourwateandfate.com/Fortune_Tell ... r_and_Bigg

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:50 am

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

More Crystal Balls are rolling your way -- pitched by Wizards, Gypsies, Swamis, and Witches -- as "Your Wate and Fate" presents Crystallomancy in Art! From magazine ads to comic books, from beer to dry cleaning, from stage magic to the image of the crystal ball has captivated painters in all mediums and genres. For a couple of dollars a week, you will get a one-year exclusive sneak peek showcasing crystallomancy in art.

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The public will not view this page until August 7th, 2024, but 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:

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#divination #folkmagic #yourwateandfate #psychicreading #crystalgazing #fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintageadvertisements #crystalomancy

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 15, 2023 1:44 am

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 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. Go to

https://mystictearoom.com/wiki/Viewing_the_Cup

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:33 am

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

Trade cards, not to be confused with trading cards, were elaborate business cards popular during the late 19th century. Using the chromolithography printing process, they bore colourful images, the name of the business, and, sometimes, text on the reverse. This week we showcase the "U. S. Coins and Currency" trade cards printed by W. W. Chew of Philadelphia and marketed by John W. Roberts of San Francisco in 1881.

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#yourwateandfate #vintagetradecards #tradecards #numismatics #vintagebusinesscards

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:28 pm

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 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 Bibliography at YIPPIE."

Find it now at:
http://www.yronwode.org/hypnotism-bibli ... t-one.html

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:10 am

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

This week in "Leaves from the Root Doctor's Garden," i am disclosing the recipes for a wonderful group of traditional herbal medicines that came to light in 1953 when the United States Food and Drug Administration destroyed a shipment of nine different herbal medicines from Father Francis's Herbal Remedies Co.

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This page is part of the Herb Magic web site at

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This page is part of the Herb Magic web site at

https://herbmagic.com

which is dedicated to herbs, roots, and minerals in African American hoodoo folk magic. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

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#herbmagic #herbmedicine #herbalmedicine #herbalism #herbs #rootwork

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:39 am

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

One month ago we released a new web page on 20th century lucky tokens, pocket pieces, and mascots from the 20th century. These coin-like objects were manufactured by custom mints in brass, bronze, or copper, and some of them were gilded. Later examples were stamped of aluminum, when that became a cheaper metal than brass. They given to customers by companies and to voters by politicians, as fancy calling cards. Many people wanted luck, especially during the Great Depression, and although they had no monetary value, these talismans, called "Good Luck Coins" by the public, were carried on the person, placed in the change pockets of wallets or purses, or thrown into change drawers by the folks who got them. I have collected such exonumia for more than 50 years and this week i am sharing a new batch of them, with commentary, at Your Wate and Fate.

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"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. Every article at the web site has been made possible by my Patrons, and new pages open to the public regularly. 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:

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#exonumia #yourwateandfate #luckytokens #pocketpieces #goodluck

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 1:45 am

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 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

Find it now at:
http://www.yronwode.org/hypnotism-bibli ... t-two.html

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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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 08, 2023 3:19 am

Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: A Racist Folklorist in 1891 (Patreon Tier 1, September 7th, 2023)

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

In this installment of "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we view a difficult collection of hoodoo beliefs and practices from 1891, compiled by an amateur folklorist whose racism is obvious, but whose information is unique and therefore important in terms of what it offers to modern historians of African-American folk-magic. Sara M. Handy wrote this piece in 1891, and despite its ugliness and errors, it still offers us a good view of the conjure practices of Black Americans in Virginia halfway between the end of slavery in 1865 and America's entry into the First World War in 1917. And, as always, i take care to unpack the antiquated terminology, correct the errors, and offer some insights into the life of the author.

NEGRO SUPERSTITIONS by Sara M. Handy
(Published in 1891)

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This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural African-American
omens, divination, and spell-work in the 19th century. Copies of the original article accompany the text.

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 08, 2023 7:43 pm

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 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.
Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

Your Wate and Fate -- The Floral Oracle Part One by Catherine and Nagasiva Yronwode

https://yourwateandfate.com/The_Floral_ ... a_Yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 4:31 am

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

This week's Patreon sneak-peek page is the "Days of the Week" (Die Tage der Woche") series S-689" by Liebig Beef Extract -- a lovely set of 6 chromolitho trade cards from 1905 that show the symbolism and attributes of the classical deities associated with the seven days of the week. We scanned and cleaned up the images and added a short history of the publisher, plus some genuine occult lore on planetary magic.

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"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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 15, 2023 2:24 pm

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 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.

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

Your Wate and Fate -- The Floral Oracle Part Two by Catherine and Nagasiva Yronwode

https://yourwateandfate.com/The_Floral_ ... a_Yronwode

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 3:06 pm

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. 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.

Find it now at:
http://www.yronwode.org/hypnotism-bibli ... three.html

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:10 pm

This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" we travel back 100 years, to 1923, as i bring you another illustrated song transcription from my collection documenting African-American folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century song lyrics. Hazel Meyers describes the terror she felt when she dreamed about a graveyard and spoke to the gravedigger. Was it "only a dream" or was it a "true dream," a premonition of tragedy to come? As usual, an MP3 audio file is included so that you can sing along as you study the deep links between hoodoo and the blues.

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo 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.

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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.

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#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #graveyard #graveyarddirt#conjure

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Sep 28, 2023 11:09 pm

This week my Patrons have another surprise waiting for them in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" as we get out in front of the public with a one-year Patreon exclusive that presents an illustrated transcription from my collection of African-American folk magic as referenced in 20th century blues lyrics. It's 1962, and Curtis Jones got whooped at the game of love by a woman he tried to whoop and now she is the only key to his happiness. As usual, an MP3 audio file is included so that you can sing along as you study the deep and enduring bond between hoodoo and the blues.

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo 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.

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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 and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for as litle as $2.00 per week:

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cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #folkmagic #rootwork #blackmagic #blackarts #conjure #rootwork

Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:51 pm

This week we release Part Four -- Palmistry -- marking 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.

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to

Your Wate and Fate -- How To Tell Fortunes Part Four by Catherine and Nagasiva Yronwode

http://yourwateandfate.com/Fortune_Tell ... r_and_Bigg

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#yourwateandfate #fortunetelling #palmistry #cheiromancy

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:29 pm

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 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.

Find it now at:
http://www.yronwode.org/hypnotism-bibli ... -four.html

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

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Unread post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Oct 08, 2023 12:00 am

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

In this installment of "It's All Ephemera," i offer a "Lucky W Amulet Archive" page compiled from texts i first wrote and published in the usenet newsgroups alt.lucky.w and alt.magick in 2004, expanded and illustrated in 2023. As a Patreon supporter, you have access to the page one full year before the public does.

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The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a free online book about good luck artifacts: The web's largest illustrated descriptive archive of folkloric amulets, talismans, charms, religious icons, and magical stuff from many cultures and every era. Check out what's new at:

https://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

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:

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Unread post by **patricia** » Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:37 am

I updated my credit card information. So sorry for the delay. I had to change a few credit cards due to unauthorized activity. I had no idea it was that long ago until today...damn!

I have been away from home the entire summer and returned yesterday. Today, I updated the information. I didn't relies it was since January

. I wondered why I wasn't receiving anything ... I support your research ms cat totally. Can't wait to see what's new.