{"id":2853,"date":"2011-07-03T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T02:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:37:57","slug":"hoodoo-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2853","title":{"rendered":"Hoodoo You Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly<\/em> is a new journal on Southern magic and folklor<\/a>e, and you can buy it on Amazon.com (follow link above).<\/p>\n

Contents of the first issue:<\/p>\n

Denise Alvarado: “The Origin of the Root,” “Dirt Dauber Nests,” “Conjure Artist profile: The Georgia Mojo Man,” “A Goetic Ritual: Magickal Doll to Raise the Ghost of a Loved One”<\/p>\n

Sharon Marino: “Bat’s Blood,” “Secrets of Sex Magick: Explore Your Sexual Fantasies with the Help of the Guede,” “St. Martha Dominadora Love Domination Candle.”<\/p>\n

Matthew Venus: “What is Real Hoodoo?” “Bottle Spell for Prosperity”<\/p>\n

Madrina Angelique: “Buying Cemetery Dirt”<\/p>\n

Alyne Pustanio: “Haunted New Orleans Folklore: The Devil Baby of New Orleans: Fact or Fiction?”<\/p>\n

Chad Balthazar, “Planetary Magick and the Venus Love Tub Lamp”<\/p>\n

Papa Curtis, “A Short Look at Witchcraft and Self-Defense in the Diaspora”<\/p>\n

Carolina Dean: “Shoe and Foot-Track Magick”<\/p>\n

Dorothy Morrison,: “The Real Dirt on Visiting the Dead”<\/p>\n

Aaron Leitch: “The Return of Psalm Magick and the Mixed Qabalah”<\/p>\n

H. Byron Ballard: “Cove-Witches and Curanderas: Traditional Healers and Magic-Women in Modern Appalachia”<\/p>\n

And there are several formulas for magickal oils and powders, a little lagniappe (that’s Cajun for a little something extra) magick, a free conjure doll baby template, and a historical text related to Voodoo in New Orleans by Lafcadio Hearn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe these are people who don’t worry about whether there are pentagrams on the tombstone\u2014they are there for the graveyard dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Contents of the first issue: Denise Alvarado: “The Origin of the Root,” “Dirt Dauber Nests,” “Conjure Artist profile: The Georgia Mojo Man,” “A Goetic Ritual: Magickal Doll to Raise the Ghost of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,55,29],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-hoodoo","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-K1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6406,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6406","url_meta":{"origin":2853,"position":0},"title":"Who Ruined Hoodoo?","author":"Chas S. 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