Hello from Missouri

[peabea]

Ashamed to say I've been a lurker of the site since 2006. I figured it wouldn't hurt to register in the forums, so here I am I live in Missouri as you can see, raised Catholic but as a Black Catholic there was always an underground current of hoodoo and voodoo.There's several family legends about different hexes that it turned my grandmother away. My mother and her family were raised in Louisiana and she's dabbled in it over the years. Even performing a small seance with my brother and I when we were little. She is still Catholic but I decided to take another approach and study different religions and spiritual beliefs. Buddhism, ATR and Kemetic beliefs spoke to me the most. But the hoodoo and voodoo has always been there, never leaving. By joining the forum I'm hoping to learn what has been hidden in my family and honor those that paved the way.

[Miss Aida]

Good Evening, Peabea!
We love your lurkers!! And we FORMALLY welcome you to the Lucky Mojo family.
As you know, this forum is about Hoodoo and we hope that you will continue to learn a lot from us. Sounds like you might be a GREAT candidiate for Miss cat's Correspondence Course too (with your diversified background).
Anyway, we welcome you and (you probably already know this) we will formally provide you with the most popular threads and some forum rules.
Enjoy. See you on the forum!!

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[catherineyronwode]

Welxome to the Forum. I lived in Missouri for a number of years, and still have fond memories of the Show Me State. Whereabouts are you located, if i may ask...?

[peabea]

Thank you everyone! I tend to stay in the shadow so to speak but enjoy being able to share ideas and such with like minded people. I'm in the Kansas City area.