Historical and Contemporary Hoodoo Root Doctors, Practitioners, Fortune Tellers, and Shop Owners

coastwitch · Post by **coastwitch** » Sun Jan 09, 2022 5:34 pm

I just read the AIRR web page on Dr. Jim Jordan, written by Miss Michaele and Miss Cat. You folks are doing wonderful work preserving the history of this craft. The biographies are part of the tradition almost as much as the spells are and we are lucky to learn about these people.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jan 22, 2022 3:32 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, as my husband and i continue our second year at Patreon, one of last year's private Patreon pages has gone public. THANK YOU, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to https://SouthernSpirits.org 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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MysticAurora · Post by **MysticAurora** » Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:30 pm

Wow! Went through these posts and it is so amazing to be able to learn this information and really be able to understand different perspectives of some issues that were touched on.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:38 pm

MysticAurora,

I'm glad you enjoyed the posts. As my Patreon pages beome open to the public one year after i write them, i will be announcing them and linking to their pages in this thread.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 09, 2022 7:51 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, as my husband and i continue our second year at Patreon, two of last year's private Patreon pages have gone public. THANK YOU, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to http://SouthernSpirits.org to find the newly public pages, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Dr. E. P. Read
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Post by **fredburke** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 11:37 am

I think these are the Patreon posts I've most enjoyed, and I look forward to a lot more history articles!

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:34 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, as my husband and i continue our second year at Patreon, one of last year's private Patreon pages has gone public. THANK YOU, Patrons, for making this possible. Go to http://HerbMagic.com/Joseph-E.-Meyer.html 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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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon May 16, 2022 2:57 pm

While bot about conjure per se, thi announcement about an extended exhibit of antique black dolls may be of interest to those who practice magic with dolls.

New-York Historical Society Exhibition Explores Handmade Black Dolls Through the Lens of Race, Gender, and History

Black Dolls on view February 25 – June 5, 2022

https://www.nyhistory.org/press/black-d ... ace-gender

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 30, 2022 5:06 pm

Old-school hoodoo supplies from my collection: Peppermint, Sage, Frank-Incense Compound, 5-6 Lucky Horseshoe Incense, and Araby Incense, all circa 1928-1938.

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:41 pm

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:42 pm

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Aug 14, 2022 3:43 pm

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:29 pm

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Mr Christopher · Post by **Mr Christopher** » Wed Sep 14, 2022 1:44 pm

News from Miss cat:

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:13 pm

A portion of my collection of antique and contemporary hoodoo supplies -- including brand-new vintage-look conjure oils from my own shop, the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. in Forestville, California. All of our products are hand-made and contain real herbs, roots, and minerals. We honour and support traditional African-American folk magic by providing practitioners with the finest of freshly-made spiritual oils, incense, perfumes, floor washes, candles, spell kits, and sachet powders, plus the widest selection of magical herbs and roots under one roof. We are open 7 days a week, 9:00 - 5:00.

Our catalogue is online at luckymojo.com/catalogue — and we sell by mail order, too, both retail and wholesale.

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:46 pm

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 4:04 pm

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

This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," i take a look at the United States Food and Drug Administration's successful legal action to destroy traditional American herbal knowledge that had its roots in ancient Native American medicine.

This illustrated page brings us the story of A. L. Machris and the Old Chief Medicine Co. of Detroit, Michigan, a mail-order house that purchased bulk herbal teas from Joseph E. Meyer's Indiana Botanic Gardens in Hammond, Indiana. Lucky for us, while ordering several shipments of these folkloric medicines to be destroyed, the FDA also carefully noted down all of the ingredients in six different remedies -- so now you can make your own!

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2) "Southern Spirits" Web Site

http://southernspirits.org/wiki/

"When Hoodoo Was Illegal" is a category of web pages at the Southern Spirits web site, which is a site that collects primary documentary accounts of the practice of hoodoo, the folk magic of African-American practitioners. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Nov 21, 2022 2:47 pm

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:53 pm

Thanks to my Patrons, there is a new web page on The Conjure Doctors of 1878 at
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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Dec 14, 2022 2:48 pm

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
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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:49 pm

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.

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:54 pm

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

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jan 14, 2023 2:56 pm

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:

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:57 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 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.
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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat May 27, 2023 6:53 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 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

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Jul 01, 2023 6:52 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

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Post by **Theredqueen911** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 12:30 pm

I wasn't sure where to put this post so I put it here... It's kind of a history question more or less/ looking for a list also of white hoodoo practitioners that were famous back in the day....

I got into a serious debate with a Gullah Geechee person who claims that Hoodoo is from the Gullah people... And that hoodoo has initiations... And bloodlines... And that if you aren't from their bloodlines, you may not practice hoodoo.

Is there any truth to the bloodlines or hoodoo's origin into the Gullah Geechee people?

Of all my years of studying Hoodoo from teachers as well as books but mostly teachers I have never heard of hoodoo bloodlines nor legit hoodoo initiations...

Idk I'm coming here to ask this question because Miss Cat... Is one of the greatest hoodoo historians since Henry Hyatt.

@catherineyronwode... If you have any thoughts on this I would greatly appreciate it...

The people I was arguing with got a little nasty. I left the conversation and I'm not going back to it. This is more for just my education... If I am wrong please correct me...

Sincerely,
The Red Queen

Post by **JayDee** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 5:03 pm

Theredqueen911 ,

You may have people make claims that state, "hoodoo is...." they are mostly exclusionary, meaning only they and a small group can practice due to some rule they made up. The easiest way to answer that question is then to look at Hoodoo as it was practiced and recorded by Newbell Niles Puckett, Harry M. Hyatt, Zora Neal Hurston, and other anthropologists like Miss Cat.

"The Gullah/Geechee people of today are descendants of enslaved Africans from several tribal groups of west and central Africa forced to work on the plantations of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida." So says the Library of Congress.

Was and is Hoodoo practiced in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and California? Yes.

Is there evidence of it being worked by African-Americans who had no connection to the Gullah? The answer is clearly yes.

Let's move on then to the practices of Hoodoo. If it is an exclusionary practice, why is there no initiations initiations in all of Hyatt's works? He interviewed 1,600 practitioners in 15 states. Did every single person leave that out?

If the work is only for Gullah people:

* How do we explain the northern and southern African roots such as foot track magic?
* How did the Jewish Psalms, or Seals of Moses and Solomon enter the work?
* When did the Bible become an important tool and why do hoodoo practitioners work with holy water, and mention baptism?
* How can we explain non-religious Jewish, Arabic, North African, and Mediterranean traditions, such as belief in the evil eye, the use of basil and rue, and the use of spices like cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg?
* How does one explain the influence of Native American traditions such as American herbs, sage, sassafras, tobacco, Indian Spirit Guide, Black Hawk?
* How can we explain the European aspects such as herbalism from European sources, German Braucherei or Pow Wow magic?
* How did the classical planetary influences and western astrology enter in?
* How did candles get included?
* How do we reconcile the adaption of Asian work in Hoodoo, Chinese Wash, bat nuts, the color red, hell money, Oriental Grasses, Lucky Buddha?

Has this person read the works of Henri Gamache, or Hohman's Pow Wows or the Long Lost Friend? Have they read the Key of Solomon or the 6th and 7th Books of Moses or Secrets of the Psalms? Likely not. But these books and others like them have been sold in African American candle, herb, and incense shops for 100 years and more.

Of course this is not an exclusive list, I would be here all night pointing out the inconsistencies and errors in this person's logic. You can argue with them, or do as I was taught by Miss Cat when people bring these claims to make something exclusively their own, agree to disagree and move on. History is on your side.

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice: https://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

JayDee

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Jul 23, 2023 6:59 pm

Thank you, JayDee. You nailed it.

It is logically impossible to disprove a claim by asserting that no evidence of it exists, because the claimant can always allude to "secret evidence." of some sort. But the evidence of widespread non-Gullah conjure is overwhelming, and actually forms the preponderance of specific interviews with practitioners in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Of course the Gullah and Geechee people certainly did and do practice hoodoo, but you will also find hoodoo spells from non Gullah people in the states where Gullah people live, and in states where African Americans don't have historical ties to Gullah people.

Hoodoo spells have been collected by Black folklorists as far back as the 19th century. No mentions of bloodlines or initiations appear in these Black accounts of conjure -- in publications by Black people FOR Black people.

For more evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries, go to my historical site, Southern Spirits, and read the entries.

https://www.southernspirits.org

For evidence of conjure practices documented in the 20th century through popular Black music, with no references to exclusivity of bloodlines or initiations, check out my Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo collection:

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

As for White hoodoo practitioners of the 19th and 20th centuries, i know of many, but i do not have time to compile a list for you. The Black practitioners interviewed by Harry Hyatt between 1936 and 1940 did mention White readers and rootworkers. Hyatt did not interview candle shop owners, but i personally knew of some who were White or Jewish or Latino back from the 1960s through 2000. You can find a list of more recent ones in the back of Carolyn Morrow Long's book, "Spiritual Merchants."

Post by **Theredqueen911** » Mon Jul 24, 2023 12:48 pm

@JayDee @Catherineyronwode

Thanks for your informative responses. I will def ck out all of those links....especially that southernspirits...I've been meaning to ck that page...for a while now. Thank You Very Much to the Both of You!!!

Sincerely,
Theredqueen911

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Aug 14, 2023 3:59 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 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

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:50 am

AIRR Tech Team Report 8/22/2023 Black Herman!

The AIRR Tech Team joined hands and created a new web page on Black Herman. Born Benjamin Rucker, he was a stage magician, herb doctor, spiritual teacher, and social activist. Jon Saint Germain wrote the page, Catherine Yronwode edited it, Nagasiva Yronwode provided the graphic, Papa Newt did proofreading and site-wide linking, and Nagasiva created the graphic announcement. Check out our prestidigital page on Black Herman!

The Black Herman page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Black_Herman

We shall now move to social media, to share the the Black Herman page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

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ain sophist · Post by **ain sophist** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 1:44 pm

Found this one on Youtube
A Black Women’s History of Hoodoo, Conjure, & Witchcraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuxww4DgRY

I thought y'all might enjoy it.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:17 am

Thanks!

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 4:06 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 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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http://southernspirits.org/wiki/index.p ... kell,_1943

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Post by **TBanks91** » Sat Oct 28, 2023 7:19 pm

Hey everyone!

I was very curious if anybody knew, roughly how many people are estimated to be practicing Hoodoo in the US?

I also was curious to see the population of people practicing other types of magic and the popularity behind it?

TBanks91

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:26 am

Hi, TBanks91 -- nice to see you here!

I know of no such survey, but i can tell you my own method of estimation.

The folklorist Harry Hyatt interviewed 1,600 Black Americans about hoodoo between 1936 and 1940 -- and he estimated then that 60% of Black people knew about or outright practiced hoodoo at that time. That was 75 to 80 years ago, and i will return to this number in a moment.

A demographic study conducted back in the late 1990s and another from the early 2000s noted that either 1 in 10 or 1 in 11 United States citizens -- not sorted by ethnic or cultural backgrounds -- had consulted a psychic during the past year. Of course, some do so only once in their life and others do so every month -- and consulting a psychic is not the same as practicing folk magic ... but let me use these studies to make some speculations.

* There are about 330 million people in the USA at the present time.
* If 1 in 10 US residents on average go to a psychic once a year, that would be a total of 33 million people per year who get a reading.
* If 1 out of 10 Americans is Black, that would be a total of 3 million Black people in any given year who get at least one psychic reading.

Now let's look at those who go to readers versus those who practice domestic folk magic. Here i have no studies to back me up -- just my own sense of proportions after almost 60 years as a reader and practitioner. Considering only my Black reading clients --

* I deal with people who only get readings and never do any magic spells nor work with any prayers.
* I deal with people who get readings and also want lights to be set for them but do not practice any rootwork nor hire any rootworkers.
* I deal with people who get readings and want to hire rootworkers to cast spells for them, but do no work themselves.
* I deal with people who get readings and want spell-casting consultations because they do their own rootwork -- and these folks may either buy spiritual supplies or only work with kitchen herbs.
* I deal with people who rarely get readings but buy hoodoo and other magical supplies regularly and are presumably doing their own rootwork.

Given these variations, i would say that about half of the Black clients who come to me for a psychic reading never express any interest in prayer-work, spell-casting, having candles set, hiring a root doctor, or purchasing spiritual supplies. They just want readings.

That cuts our estimate in half -- of the 3 million Black people who get readings in any given year, i would guess that about 1.5 million are also interested in prayers, spells, or root doctoring. Of that 1.5 million -- well, probably half of my Black clients tell me that they will want to passively hire a root doctor or have lights set for them, and the other half will actively either (or additionally) say prayers with magical intent or perform spells in their own homes -- say about 750,000 passive and 750,000 active.

But remember, not all of the Black people who actively practice magic in their own homes also get readings in any given year, so i will add a guess as to their number back in -- maybe 250,000 active Black practitioners who do not seek out a reading in any given year but who are practitioners nonetheless.

That brings me to about 1 million Black people in the USA who actively practice some form of domestic magic, be it prayers, spell-casting, lighting their own candles, working with kitchen herbs, or all-out rootwork -- with or without getting a reading in any given year. They may not practice rootwork every year, and they may consider it old grandmother stuff until they need it, but they know what it is and they can hold a conversation about it.

I am thus estimating that about 33% of the Black population in American know about or outright practice hoodoo at the present time. This is just over half of Harry Hyatt's estimate in 1936 - 1940 when he stated that 60% of Black people knew of or outright practiced hoodoo during his era. Given the increased skepticism and secularization of all demographic niches in American society, and the rise of evangelical and sternly anti-magical Christian denominations since the late 1970s, that revised figure seems a fair estimate.

I also think, based on my experience, that the same general proportions and numbers hold true in the Latino community.

Of course this is all just speculation, but at least you can see how i got there...

Post by **TBanks91** » Wed Nov 01, 2023 1:42 pm

Thank You Ms. Cat! This is amazing because I find a lot of these newer generations don’t fully understand folk magic let alone their ancestry and where they come from. So I wanted to get a general poll just to understand how many cultures are out there who still practice and how long they’ve been practicing. It’s like all of us are a dying breed and these newer generations aren’t getting taught properly from their ancestors or getting false information from unreliable sources who deliver half baked information about santeria, hoodoo, voodoo and other spiritual practices.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Thu Nov 02, 2023 11:39 am

TBanks91 --

You bring up an interesting point that i overlooked -- the ages of the practitioners. Neither the studies on how many people get a psychic reading in a given year, nor Harry Hyatt's estimate that 60% of Black people knew about or practiced hoodoo from 1936-1940 take into account the ages of those surveyed.

We know from internal evidence in his documents that Hyatt interviewed people as young as 25 and as old as 85 to 90 -- with the average known ages for professional root doctors (whose ages he was more likely to note) being around 55 to 65. (One exception, the 25 year old professional rootworker known as the "Boy-Girl" of New Orleans, was very young, but his grandmother, Madame Populous, who had trained him, was also a professional root doctor.)

In looking at my Black reading clients, i note that they range in age from in their early 20s to 85 years old. The majority are 35 to 65 -- following a bell-curve skewed slightly to the older age ranges. This may be because of my own age -- i am 76 at this writing and many of the Black reading clients whom i serve have been coming to me for 25 years or more. (I first got on the internet in 1994.)

Due to the sample distortion caused by my own age and length of service, i cannot tell whether "these newer generations," as you call them are still taking up the practice of traditional hoodoo. If they are, folks like you and me are still here to help.

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:07 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 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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Post by **nagasiva** » Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:16 am

Today i came across this article from 1995 on metaphysical supply stories in Los Angeles (Donald R. Blyth, and his Ram Religious Center; and Sharon Viedma Aguilar and Panpipes Magickal Marketplace):

"Museum Too Weird, County Says : Hollywood: Coroner’s officials want to seize its dried corpses, severed heads and other human remains. Owner says the exhibits are harmless"

by Eric Malnic
June 9, 1995 12 AM PT

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

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Here's a 2013 followup on the subsequent owners of Panpipes from a humorist:

"Panpipes Magickal Marketplace: Where pagans shop and stop for a spell"

By Chris Erskine
Oct. 25, 2013 12 AM PT

https://www.latimes.com/home/la-xpm-201 ... story.html

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sun Dec 24, 2023 5:20 pm

Sheriff Warns Tarot Card Reader Could Be Subject to Arrest
Steve Lehto (455K subscribers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpe3ADXlpzA

A religious prophesy ... or for entertainment purposes only? You decide!

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:09 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. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week "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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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 21, 2024 4:11 pm

This week in "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we ask the question on everyone's lips "Was Texas Jack, the Snake Oil King and proprietor of the Indian Herbs of Life Medicine Company, one and the same as Dr. J. C. Delano, the 103 year-old Indian who sold his Herbs of Life Medicine Company to the famed African-American herbalist Dr. E. P. Read in 1927?

Read the evidence and decide for yourself!

This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural root doctoring and herbal medicine in the early to mid 20th century. Newspaper clippings accompany this strange tale.

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:12 pm

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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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Wed Aug 21, 2024 4:15 pm

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month 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. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free.

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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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Sat Sep 07, 2024 4:16 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.

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)

Find it at:
http://southernspirits.org/Handy-Negro- ... -1891.html

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!

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Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Nov 19, 2024 3:27 pm

For those interested in the history of hoodoo (and you are, or else you wouldn't be reading this thread), i want to recommend the article "The Candle Shops of Baltimore" by Lukianos. He's a well-known reader, astrologer, and talisman-maker, and he wrote this more than a decade ago, so it is definitely pre-COVID "history" now. Check it out --

The Candle Shops of Balitimore
https://lukianos.com/the-candle-shops-of-baltimore/

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Mar 25, 2025 1:58 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 3/25/2025 Mother Leafy Anderson!

The AIRR Tech Team dimmed the lights and joined hands to bless a new web page on Mother Leafy Anderson, a famous African American Spiritual Church Movement leader, medium, and prophet. Anderson founded the Eternal Life Christian Spiritualist Church in Chicago in 1913 and subsequently built a large following in New Orleans, where she channelled the spirit of the Native American warrior Black Hawk and the Biblical Queen Esther, and trained Black women to lead their own church congregations. Papa Newt wrote the page with contributions by Catherine Yronwode. Nagasiva Yronwode sourced and cleaned up the graphic image. Catherine did the proofreading, and she and Papa Newt concluded with site-wide linking. Nagasiva created this graphic announcement. Check out our inspiring new page on Leafy Anderson!

The Leafy Anderson page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Leafy_Anderson

We shall now move to social media, to share the Leafy Anderson page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#psychic #psychicreading #psychicreaders #hoodoo #spiritualadvice #conjure #fortunetelling #divination #readersandrootworkers #rootworkers #spiritualism #spiritualchurchmovement #folkspirituality #mediumship #spiritmediums #leafyanderson #motherleafyanderson

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:00 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 4/15/2025 Dr. Buzzard!

The AIRR Tech Team took a trip down South and fashioned a new web page on the renowned 20th century rootworker, Dr. Buzzard! His Court Case conjure services were sought out by clients from all over the nation, because by chewing the root he obtained dismissals and verdicts of innocence during a time of racism, race-hatred, and enforced segregation. Reverend Art wrote the page with contributions by Catherine Yronwode, Reverend James, Papa Newt, and Lukianos. The image was created by Night Café with prompts from Deacon Millett, then photo-edited by Nagasiva and Catherine. Papa Newt and Lukianos did proofreading and site-wide linking, and Nagasiva Yronwode created this graphic announcement. Check out our mossy new page on Dr. Buzzard!

The Dr. Buzzard page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Dr._Buzzard

We shall now move to social media, to share the Dr. Buzzard page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#psychic #psychicreading #psychicreaders #spirits #rootworkers #hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #spellcasting #fortunetelling #divination #readersandrootworkers #drbuzzard #famousrootworkers #conjurespirits

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue May 06, 2025 1:57 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 5/6/2025 Myrtle Collins!

The AIRR Tech Team put on our white silk caps and robes for the creation of a new web page on Myrtle Collins, a Celebrated Medium and Conjure Doctor! Working for clients in Memphis, Tennessee, from the 1930s through the 1950s, she blended traditional African-American hoodoo and herbalism with Spiritualist and New Age practices. Her business card read "Spiritual Doctor" and she was a member of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis or AMORC of San Jose, California. She gave birth to eight children, and when she died, her occupation was listed as "Beautician." Catherine Yronwode wrote the page on this influential Black rootworker, with contributions by Papa Newt and Lukianos. Catherine sourced the photograph of her business card, and Nagasiva Yronwode photo-edited it. Lukianos and Papa Newt did proofreading and site-wide linking, and Nagasiva Yronwode created this graphic announcement. Check out our mystical page on Myrtle Collins!

The Myrtle Collins page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Myrtle_Collins

We shall now move to social media, to share the Myrtle Collins page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#psychic #psychicreading #psychicreaders #spirits #rootworkers #hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #spellcasting #fortunetelling #divination #readersandrootworkers #myrtlecollins #rosicrucian #newage #medium #famousrootworkers #conjurespirits

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Jun 03, 2025 1:56 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 6/3/2025 Henri Gamache, Hoodoo Author!

The AIRR Tech Team skeleton crew gathered in the Graveyard of Time to pay respectful homage to the late, great Henri Gamache, author of the such enduring 1940s hoodoo drugstore classics as "The Magic of Herbs," "The Master Book of Candle Burning," "Terrors of the Evil Eye Exposed," and "Mystery of the Long Lost 8th, 9th & 10th Books of Moses" -- and to reveal beneath the ghostly shroud the actual personage of the author, Anne Fleitman! Catherine Yronwode wrote the page with contributions by Lukianos and Nagasiva Yronwode. Nagasiva scanned and photo-edited the art, he and Lukianos did proofreading. Lukianos did site-wide linking, and Nagasiva created this graphic announcement. Check out our authoritative new page on Henri Gamache!

The Henri Gamache page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Henri_Gamache

We shall now move to social media, to share the Henri Gamache page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#rootworkers #hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #spellcasting #divination #readersandrootworkers #candlemagic #philosophyoffire #evileye #protectionagainstevil #pseudepigrapha #authors #researchers #folklorists #hoodooauthors #conjuresources #henrigamache #annefleitmann

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:55 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 7/1/2025 Mikhail Strabo, Spiritual Guide!

The AIRR Tech Team put flame to wick to pay homage to the well-loved occult and metaphysical author Mikhail Strabo, and celebrating his true identity as Sydney J. Rosenfeld Steiner! Strabo's Guidance House books taught the secrets of hoodoo candle magic and the practices of the Spiritual Church Movement to generations of practitioners, and his publications included such classics as "A Candle to Light Your Way," "The Guiding Light io Power and Success," "The Magic Formula for Successful Prayer," "How to Conduct a Candle Light Service," "Psychic Power for Successful Living," "Golden Secrets of the Sacred Psalms," and "Playing Your Hunches to Win." Catherine Yronwode wrote the page with contributions by Papa Newt and Lukianos. The cover art for Strabo's book was the work of Grey Townsend and an anonymous artist o the 1930s. Papa Newt and Lukianos did proofreading and site-wide linking, and Nagasiva created this graphic announcement. Check out our illuminating new page on Mikhail Strabo!

The Mikhail Strabo page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Mikhail_Strabo

We shall now move to social media, to share the Mikhail Strabo page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #spellcasting #divination #readersandrootworkers #candlemagic #candlelightservices #successfulprayer #authors #researchers #folklorists #conjuresources #mikhailstrabo #sydneysteiner

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:53 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 7/15/2025 Paschal Beverly Randolph, Celebrated Medium!

The AIRR Tech Team fluffed up their New Orleans Magnetic Pillows to offer admiration and gratitude to the great 19th century hoodoo conjure doctor, celebrated medium, and Rosicrucian esotericist Paschal Beverly Randolph! A world traveller, prolific author and lecturer, and trance channeller, he is well-known for the works he published on spiritualism, dream interpretation, mirror scrying, and sex magic. Two of his best-known books, still in print 150 years after his death, are "Eulis! The History of Love: Its Wondrous Magic, Chemistry, Rules, Laws, Modes, Moods and Rationale; Being the Third Revelation of Soul and Sex, also, Reply to 'Why Is Man Immortal?' the Solution to the Darwin Problem, an Entirely New Theory;" and "Seership! The Magnetic Mirror." Catherine Yronwode wrote the page with contributions by Miss Michaele, Nagasiva Yronwode, Dr. Jeremy Weiss, and Lady Muse. Papa Newt and Lukianos did proofreading and site-wide linking, and Nagasiva created this graphic announcement from a studio photograph. Check out our lovely page on Paschal Beverly Randolph!

The Paschal Beverly Randolph page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/P ... y_Randolph

We shall now move to social media, to share the Paschal Beverly Randolph page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #spellcasting #divination #readersandrootworkers #sexmagic #spiritualists #neworleansmagicpillow #lovepowders #authors #triplicateorder #eulis #conjuresources #paschalbeverlyrandolph #therosicrucian #mediums

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Aug 05, 2025 1:52 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 8/5/2025 Edward H. Lowe, Astrologer and Numerologist!

The AIRR Tech Team took a trip back in time to the old Bronzeville section of Chicago in 1937, to applaud Texas-born Edward H. Lowe, the best known African-American astrologer and numerologist of the 20th century. During a 40-year career, Lowe wrote and published the "Spiritualistic Dream Book," cast horoscopes for his conjure clients, made yearly astrological forecasts, gave out lucky numbers based on dream-divination, sold planetary hour calculators, and prescribed "efficacious oils" and candles from his Southside temple. Catherine Yronwode wrote the page, Papa Newt handled the proofreading and made site-wide links, and Nagasiva Yronwode created this graphic announcement from one of Lowe's advertisements. Check out our stellar page on Edward H. Lowe!

The Edward H. Lowe page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Edward_H._Lowe

We shall now move to social media, to share the Edward H. Lowe page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers

#hoodoo #hoodoospells #spiritualadvice #conjure #conjurespells #astrology #astrologist #spiritualism #authors #numerology #chicago #jinxkiller #policy #lottery #betting #games

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Tue Sep 30, 2025 2:02 pm

AIRR Tech Team Report 9/30/2025 Rajah Rabo, Numerological Dream Diviner!

The AIRR Tech Team piloted their magic carpets back in time to celebrate the life and works of Rajah Rabo (born Carl Z. Talbot), an African American numerologist, dream interpreter, psychic reader, rootworker, and spiritual supply shop keeper in New York City from 1932 to 1974. Talbot wrote and published the "5-Star Mutuel Dream Book," the "Pick'Em Dream Book," and his own "Rundown and Workout Book." Along the way he shocked and surprised his readers by giving interpretations for dreams involving homosexuality, prostitution, social injustice, domestic violence, modern warfare, alcoholism, and drug use -- topics never seen in a lucky number dream book before or since. Catherine Yronwode wrote the page, Papa Newt handled the proofreading and made site-wide links, and Nagasiva Yronwode created this graphic announcement from one of Rabo's books. Check out our dreamy new page on Rajah Rabo!

The Rajah Rabo page is here:

http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/Rajah_Rabo

We shall now move to social media, to share the Rajah Rabo page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:

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#rajahrabo #dreambook #dreambooks #numerology #policy #lottery #betting #gambling #games #mediums #readers #rootworkers #workouts #rundowns #newyorkcity #readersandrootworkers #airr

Post by **catherineyronwode** » Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:54 pm

When Wicca Met Hoodoo
Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour 10/5/25
with co-hosts catherine yronwode and ConjureMan,
special guest Doc Murphy, and announcer JayDee
https://youtu.be/zKl3VYEEfCk

Co-hosts Miss Cat and ConjureMan, with special guest Doc Murphy and announcer JayDee, take you back in time to the 20th century, when European Wicca met African American Hoodoo -- and what happened next! We provide free spells, giving listeners an education in African-American folk magic and how it intersected with, and influenced, Neopagan Wicca and Witchcraft traditions.

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