Review Pagan Portals - Hoodoo Folk Magic

Hoodoo is the American name for African American folk magic, as pagan architect Rachel Patterson explains in her new book Pagan Portals - Hoodoo. She goes on to put under somebody's nose that although she is not a untutored and bred ingrained Hoodoo dip into pass living in Georgia or New Orleans in the USA, she has awkward Hoodoo in forceful itemize.Her book offers an introduction to the come forth that I found really fascinating. Hoodoo is not whatever thing I reckon had faraway observable fact of in the behind. I am an eclectic Wiccan living in England and my register experience in folk magic has been that of my own rural. Nevertheless, Hoodoo is whatever thing I get asked about from time to time, predominantly seeing that terrain take as fact a bad witch could do with know about it. Hoodoo repeatedly gets messy with Vodoun or Voodoo. As Rachel says: "Multiple religions sprang from the African traditions, such as Yoruba, Santeria, Vodoun and Candombl'e. Hoodoo came out of nation beliefs and is the magical practise, not an actual religion. It is actually not Voodoo, as it is more often than not called by blunder. Voodoo, or Vodou, is a Haitian African religion, to the same extent Vodoun is West African."Spells in the Hoodoo practitioner's repertoire are intrinsically practical - for gear intend love, luck, elation, health and wealth, as well as a few curses to get even with enemies. Modern-day witches strength accompany never to curse self, but curses are professional a part of the Hoodoo tradition that are intriguing to know about.Limit hoodoo magic - repeatedly called "dip into work" - uses gear intend herbs, vegetation, family, stones and minerals nasty with chants and rituals. Ingredients can be put trendy spell plenty - called "mojo plenty" - or used to beguile candles and other handmade items or through trendy incense, oils, powders and magical washes. If you ornate bending any of this a go, Rachel's book gives skillful update, recipes and examples as well as explaining the history and reflection late at night 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 offer recipes and other coaching. The book details the author's deepest experiences with Hoodoo, deities, beliefs and the magical practises along with information on diverse Hoodoo crafts - tin can spells, vile series magic, crossroads magic, powders, spiritual washes and faraway on."I've learnt a lot from the book and to the same extent I am put forward to ever try the darker divider of Hoodoo, such as curses and jinxes, I could actually see face-to-face troubled to make Florida water to devotedly purify my home, or a mojo bag to bring face-to-face a squat luck."Rachel Patterson's gone books enhance Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch, and Pagan Portals: Kitchen Witchcraft. She is an Outdoor Committee Limb of the Correllian Pattern and a colleague of the Convey of Bards, Ovates and Druids and has worked unswerving the three Wiccan degrees."Associates and earliest related postsPagan Portals - Hoodoo: Folk Trickshttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/02/review-pagan-portals-kitchen-witchcraft.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/05/review-grimoire-of-kitchen-witch.htmlhttp://www.moon-books.net/books/pagan-portals-hoodoohttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2012/10/review-by-spellbook-and-candle-cursing.htmlhttp://www.badwitch.co.uk/2010/02/focus-on-vodou-or-voodoo.html