Hoodoo Voodoo And Conjure A Handbook Greenwood Folklore Handbooks

Hoodoo, voodoo, and like are part of a new world of African American spirituality that has long captured the beguiling hallucination. These magical beliefs and practices influence figured in studious works by such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed, and they influence been inner to singular cinema, such as "The Covering Key". In black and white for students and for all readers, this book is a dexterous introduction to hoodoo, voodoo, and like.

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Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Manual (Greenwood Myths Handbooks) as you think fit appeared on Stanch Voodoo & Hoodoo Spells on September 1, 2011.