The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/hoodoo)
In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: the delightfully odd Bumpy Snailfish is discovered, the ancient Roman Ludi are remembered, Memphis welcomes a new Hoodoo Museum, and the community mourns the Crossing of the Veil of Lady Cara and Jaeme-Adelle Hughes.
In magic we strive to fulfill our mundane needs in a magical way. Using herbs, stones, bones, or other curio (along with prayer, energy work, and intention) we attempt to conjure forth the hidden spiritual properties within those items to create an environment that will protect us from whatever harmful influences we may encounter.
Dr. Natalie Emmons invites readers to consider the role of storytelling and oral tradition to modern Pagan traditions.
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.
However, when it comes to Witchcraft practice, it’s not just the language that matters. It’s the techniques we use, the tools we get, the points of view we work with, and even the people we meet and learn from. Being in Venezuela forced me to work with limited resources, sometimes even limited information, but since I came to the United States, a door opened for more of all of this.