hello from the greater st louis area!

[skittlepoofs]

Hi everyone!

I was always very close to my grandmother, who was always burning candles, and making what I now know to be oils. She never really told me what she was doing, but I never really asked. She died when I was 19, and going through her things, I found this handwritten book. I kept it, but I never took the time to try and understand it. For about 2 years now, I have been researching the things in her book, but until I found this website, it made very little sense. I would personally like to thank everyone that posts here, because you've all helped fill in a lot of the blanks, but I still have so many questions! So I figured that I'd register (finally) and see if I can't learn more about my grandmother, and what she was doing in the kitchen all those years!

Thank you!
P

[aura]

Hi skittlepoofs and welcome to the Forum. A great resource for you in future would no doubt be to enroll in the Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course that you can read more about here: http://www.luckymojo.com/mojocourse.html

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http://luckymojo.com/hoodoohistory.html

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http://luckymojo.com/baths.html

Powders:
http://luckymojo.com/powders.html

Incense:
http://luckymojo.com/incense.html

Candles:
http://luckymojo.com/candlemagic.html

Herbs:
http://herb-magic.com

Conditions and how we can address them:
http://luckymojo.com/hoodooataglance.html

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[skittlepoofs]

Thank you for the welcome! I have never tried anything from her book, I have mostly just been trying to figure out what it means. Hoodoo is the closest thing can find to what she was doing, but lots of things are different. She called them different names than anything I can find, which has made this difficult, but by reading these forums non stop for the last year, I have definately bridged a lot of the gap. The most interesting thing is looking at the dates on her notes/recipes, then trying to figure out what was going on within the family at that time. Much easier to do, since everyone here unknowingly helped me decipher the majority of the uses for the ingredients she was using. It's been fascinating!

[Miss Aida]

Skittlepoofs!
You are so lucky to have that! WOW!
Welcome to the forum!!

[Mama Micki]

Hi, skittlepoofs. Please don't hesitate to ask questions.

[jwmcclin]

I join my fellow moderators in welcoming you the forum.