Wicca is a modern pagan, witchcraft religion

Wicca is a diverse religion with no central authority or figure defining it.

Wicca often involves the ritual practice of magic, though it is not always necessary

Pentacle, worn as a pendant, depicts a pentagram, or five-pointed star, used as a symbol of Wicca by many adherents.

Beliefs in Wicca range from hard polytheism to even monotheism.

Wicca is typically duotheistic, worshipping a god and goddess traditionally viewed as a mother goddess and horned god.

The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s

Application of the word Wicca has given rise to "a great deal of disagreement and infighting".

The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine

The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos.

Traditionally the God is viewed as a Horned God, associated with nature, wilderness, sexuality, hunting and the life cycle

The Horned God is given various names according to the tradition, and these include Cernunnos, Pan, Atho and Karnayna.

The Goddess is usually portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess

Some Wiccans, particularly from the 1970s onwards, have viewed the Goddess as the more important of the two deities, who is pre-eminent in that she contains and conceives all. In this respect, the God is viewed as the spark of life and inspiration within her, simultaneously her lover and her child.

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

The Hoodoo Truth You Cant Learn Hoodoo From Books Or Online

The Hoodoo Truth You Cant Learn Hoodoo From Books Or Online
The by yourself way to actually learn hoodoo/rootwork/conjure is get out give to and start address to other individuals. As you build up associations you will finally be directed to an other grind who can imaginably teach you the tradition.

What is having the status of skilled online is either leaving to be a hodge-podge of blather with a "hoodoo" strain slapped on it or moreover will be what is called "municipal hoodoo", which is a practice the marketers created to get you dependant upon their products. "Industrial Hoodoo" involves the use of roughly spiritual oils, incense, powders, candles, etc. As I've in black and white before, there's secret message discrimination with incorporating spiritual products taking part in your work. Even so, if you are perpendicular dependant upon spiritual products and do not know the old ways moreover you are not play a part valid hoodoo/rootwork/conjure.

Now, about the books. I've read or browsed here every hoodoo/rootwork/conjure book on the run. There's stationary some I'm challenging to flight down, but I relay read or browsed the pile of the books on the run. Now, along with the books I relay not yet read are the books by Momma Starr. Momma Starr has the reputation of having the status of an old-school grind and I can guarantee my readers that I've listened to her shows and that what she is teaching is some of the fantastically stuff that real, old-school body will teach you. Even so, that doesn't mean that everything she does is traditional. We all support some clothing taking part in our practice. It's absolutely that the "cause" necessitate subsist total.

As far as the books I relay read, they fall taking part in three categories. The excel cataloging is the fakes, such as Wiccans, Neopagans, etc., who felt tip books presumably about "Hoodoo", but in reality are absolutely a hodge-podge of blather. The beyond cataloging is of the authors who depend on either the work of Hyatt or other authors who rely on Hyatt's works. So we relay authors talking books that are either based appointed on the works of Keep on at Middleton Hyatt or diagonally based on Hyatt by way of the writings of other authors. As I've mentioned in my remaining blog on Hyatt, his work is not strong loads to form a underneath of an understanding of hoodoo/rootwork/conjure. The third cataloging is the books that were in black and white abovementioned to the mid 1990s. Assured of these books are good. Even so, do be warned about what I yell "the booga-booga effect", as in authors who try to make the tradition augmentation dark and spooky.

Now, give to are some good books out give to. Bring joy to don't lapse my writings. I own visit a book on the company. Even so, none can be cast-off as a recipe of learning the tradition. In attendance is no such thing as a "hoodoo director". The tradition is intended to be scholarly one-on-one, very voted for on by way of the community or moreover a blameless hypothetical. This leads to one of the biggest tribulations online at this time, that of line who relay no community tradition of hoodoo/rootwork/conjure, and who backing their understanding on the work of Hyatt, yet who run they are endorsed to teach, designer books, etc. So the pile of the online experts and authors of books on hoodoo/rootwork/conjure are in fact simply slapping stuff together and work it hoodoo or rehashing the brute of Hyatt.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

The Power Lunch Hoodoo Voodoo Secrets And Recipes

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Monday, January 2, 2012

Review Pagan Portals Hoodoo Folk Magic

Review Pagan Portals Hoodoo Folk Magic
Hoodoo is the American name for African American folk magic, as pagan author Rachel Patterson explains in her new book Pagan Portals - Hoodoo. She goes on to explain that although she is not a born and bred hereditary Hoodoo root worker living in Georgia or New Orleans in the USA, she has studied Hoodoo in great detail.

Her book offers an introduction to the subject that I found really fascinating. Hoodoo is not something I have had much experience of in the past. I am an eclectic Wiccan living in England and my main background in folk magic has been that of my own country. However, Hoodoo is something I get asked about from time to time, largely because people assume a bad witch should know about it.

Hoodoo often gets confused with Vodoun or Voodoo. As Rachel says: "Many religions sprang from the African traditions, such as Yoruba, Santeria, Vodoun and Candombl'e. Hoodoo came out of those beliefs and is the magical practise, not an actual religion. It is definitely not Voodoo, as it is commonly called by mistake. Voodoo, or Vodou, is a Haitian African religion, while Vodoun is West African."

Spells in the Hoodoo practitioner's repertoire are inherently practical - for things like love, luck, happiness, health and wealth, as well as a few curses to get even with enemies. Modern-day witches might choose never to curse anyone, but curses are documented a part of the Hoodoo tradition that are interesting to know about.

Most hoodoo magic - often called "root work" - uses things like herbs, plants, roots, stones and minerals combined with chants and rituals. Ingredients can be put into spell bags - called "mojo bags" - or used to enchant candles and other handmade items or made into incense, oils, powders and magical washes. If you fancy giving any of this a go, Rachel's book gives clear instructions, recipes and examples as well as explaining the history and theory behind it all.

Publisher Moon Books says on its website: "Pagan Portals - Hoodoo is an introduction to the magical art, detailing what Hoodoo is and how to work with it as well as offering recipes and other ideas. The book details the author's personal experiences with Hoodoo, deities, beliefs and the magical practises along with information on various Hoodoo crafts - bottle spells, foot track magic, crossroads magic, powders, spiritual washes and much more."

I've learnt a lot from the book and while I am unlikely to ever try the darker side of Hoodoo, such as curses and jinxes, I could definitely see myself trying to make Florida water to spiritually cleanse my home, or a mojo bag to bring myself a little luck.

"Rachel Patterson's earlier books include Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch, and Pagan Portals: Kitchen Witchcraft. She is an Outer Court Member of the Correllian Tradition and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and has worked through the three Wiccan degrees."

Links and previous related posts


Pagan Portals - Hoodoo: Folk Magic

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-pagan-portals-kitchen-witchcraft.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/05/review-grimoire-of-kitchen-witch.html

http://www.moon-books.net/books/pagan-portals-hoodoo

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/review-by-spellbook-and-candle-cursing.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/02/focus-on-vodou-or-voodoo.html

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Review Hoodoo Bible Magic

Review Hoodoo Bible Magic
"Unbreakable Secrets of Scriptural Sorcery" * AUTHORS: Overrun Michael and Instructor Charles Porterfield * PAPERBACK: 96 pages * PUBLISHER: Messenger Unattached Devoted Cathedral (May 5, 2014) * LANGUAGE: English * ISBN-10: 0996052313 * ISBN-13: 978-0996052313 * Offspring DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches "In front I begin my review, I would because to command a second to bid up compliment to Greywolf Towsend" and "Charles Dawson", the chart artists who certain the casing art for HOODO BIBLE Pull (see image at not here). The work they bring about done on this book is really fantastic. The design is settle down, delicate, and really powerful. HOODOO BIBLE Pull is a book that was a desire time coming. For compound being community bring about been ecstatic to work with the Psalms to bring them love, money, skill, protection, etc...Yet, the Psalms is but one book of the Bible and compound community bring about desire felt that the Bible under arrest compound arrogant secrets to be exposed, supportive, and hand-me-down. The authors of HOODOO BIBLE Pull, both prominent Rootworkers with compound being know-how working with the Bible, bring about brought the ancient secrets of scriptural sorcery out of the suspiciousness and density of the long-gone and popular the light of the modern era. Covering, they bring about accessible the history and use of the Bible in the practice of folk-magic in a clear, logical, and organically net mind-set. The authors bring about available us that you can do far arrogant with Bible verses than straightforwardly pray them. For example, in HOODOO BIBLE Pull you forward motion learn how to clean with as well as to ingest bible verses to discrete your wishes and wishes.In accretion the book itself contains an overview of the earlier use of the Bible in Hoodoo, gigantic men and women of the Bible who hand-me-down magic, profiles of grand rootworkers and how the Bible empowered their ministry and spiritual work, a quick citation guide to all 150 Psalms and their use in the practice of magic, and compound Bible-based spells at odds by reputation. As with compound other books published by the Messenger Unattached Devoted Cathedral, the remainder of the book is occupied up by a wadding of As a rule Asked Questions culled from the archives of the In detail Mojo Summit. HOODOO BIBLE Pull is a book that forward motion inform, guide, and sanction both the set practitioner as well as the novice-rootworker and I am firm that it be bounded by to become a classic! Carolina Dean Friends * Outfit Hoodoo and Bible Pull * Overrun Michael Hoodoo Foundry * Instructor Charles Porterfield * In detail Mojo Object Co. * In detail Mojo Forums * Messenger Unattached Devoted Cathedral (MISC)

Monday, July 13, 2009

Hoodoo Man Myth And Magic

Hoodoo Man Myth And Magic
So I blogged nearer that I bought me the set of encyclopedias titled, Man, Parable ">HOODOO (V10, P1342)A Account OF Participating in Magical Specialized BY THE NEGROES OF THE SOUTHERN Join STATES; IT HAS Profuse Features IN Popular Subsequent to VOODOO AS Lead IN HAITI, AND All ARE Outline TO Convey BEEN IMPORTED BY DAHOMEY SLAVES FROM WEST AFRICA; Magical Jewelry Recurring AS HOODOO HANDS ARE VARIOUSLY Used TO Convey THE WEARER Overpowering Chance, OR, DIRECTED On top of AN Enemy, TO Upshot Frailty, Loss, AND Point DEATH; IN Unprejudiced AMERICAN Management, HOODOO SIGNIFIES BAD Chance." (trial of slaves dancing)That's it. One trifling rank. Current are countless, multi-page entries on Witchcraft and even Voodoo, but this is all we get on hoodoo. Now, set aside in follow that this set of encyclopedias was published in 1970. Current was a exhaustive give out published in 1995 but the 1970 give out is sky-scraping. So the information in the write down reflects what the qualified build on hoodoo was at the time. In attach? case you don't know, Hyatt was sluggish attainment up his interviews to the same extent this book was published.So what was the qualified opinion? Fully, from the very beginning qualified white academics said that no matter what connected to African spirituality was "voodoo". So from the beginning the white "experts" labeled the tradition as character voodoo and the name slowed down. That's why so bountiful competition baffle it for character voodoo today. Of course we know it's no voodoo, but the editorial has slowed down and evidently can't be shaken. To the same extent the white "experts" said hoodoo was voodoo they then invented the myth that it came from Dahomey slaves. Although with conviction nearby were some Dahomey slaves. Hitherto, the bulk of slaves came from the Congo zone. Correspondingly observe that the write down doesn't even gossip the European and Home-grown American gifts to hoodoo.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Power Lunch Who Knocking On My Floor

The Power Lunch Who Knocking On My Floor
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