Noelle Bowles examines Ryan Coogler’s hit film “Sinners,” speaking with Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and scholar of Hoodoo, about how this story of vampires and the blues in the Jim Crow south faithfully incorporates Hoodoo and rootworking.
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World Wide Witchcraft: the 1990s in Retrospect
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We were finally finding a way into the grooves of the Akashic record: the information superhighway was the Force, it was the oversoul, and we paid for it by the minute. One of the very first things I ever searched for on Alta Vista was Witchcraft.
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Review: Popo the Xolo
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Alan U. Dalul reviews a children’s book based on the Indigenous Mexican folklore around death, dying, and the underworld. “Family unity and peace are perhaps the most relevant topics besides the central themes of grief and death, maybe even more on some pages. Lopez delivers a story that celebrates life and reminds us there is always a light at the end.”
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Folk Magic and Hermeticism in “Nosferatu”
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With its right hand Eggers’s Nosferatu points at all the sex it can, but its left invokes the imagery and the uncanny nature of folk magic.
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Abracadabra, the Lady (Gaga) in Red Said
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Let’s get something straight: Lady Gaga is our Lord and Savior, and I will not hear otherwise. She comes back, resurrected like the phoenix when we need a beacon of hope.
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Review: Spells for Success by Lauren Parker
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“I also appreciated that each and every spell begins with drinking water,” writes Sprocket Wagner of this new spell deck from Simon Element. “Not only does this build in attention to one’s energy levels as a principle of spell work, it also tricked me into staying hydrated as I reviewed this deck.’