Solitary Witch by Silver RavenWolf

Author:Silver RavenWolf
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Book of Shadows, witchcraft, wicca, witch, spell, ritual, sabbat, esbat, solitary wicca, worship, magic, rituals, initiation, spells, spellcraft, spellwork, magick, raven wolf, ravenwolf, HOL20, HOL09
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Hoodoo

When you begin to delve deeply into herbal and folk magicks in an effort to further your personal magickal education, you will invariably run across Hoodoo (and Pow Wow). They are an intricate part of historical America, where these two systems have flourished for hundreds of years, and have affected (to some degree, depending upon your personal opinion) the current religion of Witchcraft. In an effort to give you basic information, Ray Malbrough has written a section for you on Hoodoo, and I have provided a section on Pow Wow further on in Part 3. Once you learn the patterning of these two systems, you will discover that several of the older American Craft grimoires contain mixed elements of these practices.

Hoodoo Magick

by Ray Malbrough

Hoodoo has become an Americanized adaptation of the indigenous African religion relating to the Fon people of Benin and Togo, found on the western coast of the African continent (also referred to as the Ivory Coast). Hoodoo thrives within the indigenous magickal tradition of people living in Louisiana, and deals much with the working of herbs and roots to make charm bags, called gris-gris bags. The gris-gris bags are very similar to an American Indian medicine bag. Hoodoo also uses packets that are carried in a person’s shoes. Hoodoo’s magickal teaching is carried down from male to male and female to female. The only exception to any magickal knowledge being carried over from male to female or female to male was to keep the practice within the family bloodline.

The Hoodoo practitioner is also taught how to prepare the magickal and spiritual baths that are also an integral part of Voodoo as practiced in Haiti today. The practitioners are also skilled in making and using magickal powders, used to influence people when worn or in contact with a person’s body. For example, when a man or woman desired to attract a certain person to be their lover, a powder would be worn after bathing to help draw the forces of love into their own life. Or the powder would be sprinkled about a place where the beloved was sure to walk or sit. The charge that is put into the powder would begin to have an effect on the other person. These magickal powders are also sprinkled onto candles to give extra power to the candle as it burns. Practitioners of Hoodoo or Voodoo don’t believe that magick is black or white. It just simply is, neutrally.

The main difference between a practitioner of Hoodoo and a priest or priestess of Voodoo (also spelled Voudu) is that Hoodoo invokes the aid of the Catholic saints. The Voodoo practice makes use of the vèvès in order to invoke the aid of the African spirits when petitioning for help in solving the problems in life. One thing that is common to both, besides the practice of magick, is a reverence for the dead and communication with the dead and the ancestors that have gone to the other side. Death is not viewed as an end to the relationship, but as a beginning to the relationship on a spiritual level.

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