San Diego and Taiwan

[BrianKennedy]

Hello Folks,
I wanted to start by saying "thanks" for all the great information that is on the Lucky Mojo websites. Cat Yronwode and the rest of the folks have really done a super job on getting authentic, solid information on Hoodoo up on the website. I was born and raised on the Florida panhandle (Fort Walton Beach) and as I was going through the various pages on the Lucky Mojo site I would see things that I remembered from the late 1950s and 1960s in Florida. For example one of the first pages I saw here was about the "lucky dimes" and I remembered you used to see black folks and rural whites walking around with the dimes tied on their ankles.

It is also interesting to see how Native American ideas mixed in with Hoodoo. I am an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Nation (a tribe that was originally in the Great Lakes area, then moved to Kansas, then to Oklahoma) and had got familiar with the different religions that had been part of Potawatomi culture. It is interesting to see how that situation is like Hoodoo.

I lived in Taiwan for 15 years and while I was there I got involved with different aspects of Taiwanese folk magic and folk religion. It too offers many interesting parallels with Hoodoo. The Taiwanese were under the political control of the Japanese and then the Mainland Chinese for about a 120 years. There was plenty of racial tension and attempts to wipe out traditional Taiwanese folk culture (including folk magic practices).

I look forward to meeting and talking with the folks here. I have put in my first couple of orders with Lucky Mojo and look forward to working with those things when they get to me.

take care,
Brian

[Mama Micki]

Welcome, Brian!