#southern rootwork

[conjuremanj]

What's The Difference Between A Blockbuster, Road Opener and Uncrossing?

Let's start with a uncrossing.

Uncrossing: Is where someone has put something on you or a negative energy of a person is causing a negative effect in your life and the uncrossing will undo all of that.

A Road Opener: This will clear away blockages. When we take a different direction or unexpected path like a left turn onto another road this helps take us back on the original path. It can also help rid the blockages thats be in our way. [Example] If you ask God or the universe for something and you constantly squander those blessings you can lose them and the universe don't want to give help any more then a road opener can help with that.

Last we have the Blockbuster.

Blockbuster: This can help change your course in life, this can put us on the path that maybe we're weren't supposed to be on but really really wanted it to be. [Example: A career, you have a job/career and always wanted to do something else and you know how to do it this working is for that]

[propheticeve]

If someone claims to practice Hoodoo but says they don't pray, then they are not truly practicing Hoodoo. Don't let the trend followers on social media make you believe that prayer is bad. Praying as a beggar is bad because it spiritually opens a portal, and begging is a form of low vibrational energy. This low vibrational energy allows spiritual leeches and parasites to attack you, leading to spiritually transmitted demons, psychic attacks, mental episodes, and freak accidents. However, with proper prayer and an understanding of how your words can access different realms, you are truly practicing Hoodoo correctly.

[gullahconjure]

Bitter Sweet moments kiss in passing-

Loves dagger stings.

Confusion rules during uncertainty-

Love’s episodes replay like marathons.

No more uncertainty!

-Friendship Termination, Gullah Conjore

[marsinthecorner]

Just a backwoods witch in her natural habitat! Self portrait.

[hoodoohoneychild]

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[vanilla-cigarillos]

Some Rootwork Terminology

As with most things, it’s good to learn about the terminology of a practice before trying to dive into things. Here’s a short post on some of the common terminology you might come across if you’re looking to get into rootwork.

Anoint - Applying oil to a place, person, or thing prepared for ritualistic purposes

Amulet - An object similar to a charm that is meant to protect the wearer against an entity (illness, evil, etc.)

Blessing - A technique for performing a consecration ritual

Conjured Oil - Consecrated oil used in ceremonies/rituals, and spells

Conjure Water - Water that has been mixed with infused oils, herbs, etc. used in cleansing a chosen place

Crossing/Uncrossing - Refers to adding/removing hexes, negative energy, etc. (uncrossing is meant to cleanse you or a place of hexes, curses, etc.)

Doll Baby - Spirit dolls made to be used in spell or ritual work

Floorwash - Holy or Florida water used on your floors to purify and protect the space

Honey Jar - Spell contained in a bottle with honey and other chosen ingredients to direct positivity

Mojo Bag - Spell packed with ingredients in a drawstring bag meant to attract or dispel intentions; A.K.A. “gris-gris” bags

Oracle - A type of divination used to receive messages from the believed divine

Orisha - (African) spirits that are also associated with forms of voodoo spirits

Talisman - Object made during specific astrological cycles that is meant to bring positivity and/or protection to the wearer

[skinpriestess]

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[nyxshadowhawk]

Hi, weird question maybe, I'm just some guy who stumbled on your quora answers and figured you're pretty knowledgeable. I'm Italian and I'm wondering if you knew of any forms of magic that could be compared to what in Italy is referred to as 'low ceremonial magic', usually practiced by farmers / poor people. I'm looking for similar traditions in other parts of the world because I'm trying to figure out what kind of magic is most practiced by low income people historically. Thanks a lot

Great question! I'm still in the process of learning about "low magic" or "folk magic." I usually call it folk magic, to distinguish it from ceremonial magic, although the lines between the two are pretty thin and there's significant overlap. (The difference seems to be mainly a class distinction.) If you want to research it, I recommend using "folk magic" as your keyword.

My own country, the United States, has several robust traditions of folk magic that tend to go unnoticed by people who aren't in contact with them. Appalachian Magic is one of the big ones, and Southern Conjure is another one of the big ones. New England has its own variant of English "cunning." Hoodoo and Rootwork are both African diasporic traditions, based in Vodou and practiced mainly in the South. There's also "Pow-Wow," which is mainly Pensylvannia Dutch, Curanderismo and Brujeria (Hispanic), various magical traditions that stem from indigenous religions, and the extremely popular New Age variant of folk magic (which is apparently called "manifesting"). I'm not intimately familiar with all of these systems, but I highly recommend reading New World Witchery by Cory Thomas Hutcheson for a primer on North American folk magic.

The one I know the most about is English "cunning." I just did a project for which I translated part of Bald's Leechbook, a medieval book of herbal remedies written in Old English that was intermixed with some folk spells. I've observed that folk magic tends to be very Catholic, or Catholic-syncretic, because Catholicism has a lot of folk-magic stuff built right into it (like saints' medallions and votive offerings) that were intentionally rooted out of Protestantism. But hey, new folk traditions are always popping up all the time. Tarot cards are only about two hundred years old, but they're a valid and effective divination method, and you can find them in any mainstream bookstore these days.

Finally, I feel the need to say that folk magic is very dark. There's a common idea, mainly in New Age and neopagan circles, that your spells will rebound on you if they're unethical. This has no historical grounding. Curses, forceful love spells, bindings, and other baneful spells are really common. Frequently, magic was the only source of power or agency for people with no other options. Sanitizing folk magic does it a disservice. That doesn't mean that you have to practice baneful magic, only that you should understand why it exists and respect it.

[conjuremanj]

Home Mirror Protection Used In Real Hoodoo.

In the south decoration the home is something you'll see a lot of and it’s connected to a desire to protect ourselves from evil spirits. Similar to protecting your home with haint blue on the porch or having blue bottle in a tree, putting a mirror out side on the porch or door can prevent the devil from entering your home.

The belief is the devil can only enter at at a certain time before he must go back. If he comes across a mirror, he'll get distracted by his reflection and spen the home hold night looking at his reflection that he forgets to enter. Who know who much is true but the one thing is true the use of a mirror for protection and it's does work. This will give you redirect and send back that negativity.

Get yourself four small mirrors (cheap dollar store mirrors) write the 23rd Psalms on the back of the mirrors and place them outside at each corner your house in the North, South, East & West location. Have the glass facing away (outward) from the home.

This will give you protection.

Now another thing you can work it is by adding a little sulfur.

After you set you mirrors add a little mound of sulfur on the ground behind the mirrors and that will send back any negativity with some strong stank on it if you know what I mean.😄

A little southern mirror divination, if you see a mirror fell which ever direction a means it is the direction the haters are at..

So if you see someone from that live in that direction and is coughing hard to breathe you know that's them..

[madamlaydebug]

Rootwork, also known as rootworking or hoodoo, is a form of folk magic practiced primarily in the Southern United States. It draws upon African and Native American spiritual traditions. Rootwork involves the use of herbs, roots, minerals, and other natural materials in rituals and spells to achieve desired outcomes, such as protection, love, luck, or healing. It often incorporates elements of spiritualism, Christianity, and African spirituality.

[gullahconjure]

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[marsinthecorner]

Decided to do a more witchy design for our redbubble shop. I myself am a witch from the American south, so I wanted to do designs to represent that. More will come for this section, designs around southern, Appalachian, and Kentucky folklore and myth.

[whoreofabaddon]

And since it's a long weekend and I am working on reorganizing my bookshelves, I will be slowly putting up a few quotes from some of my books on Satan. My favorites being The Poetics of Iblis and Satan's Tragedy and Redemption.

But also Satan: A Biography, The Origin of Satan, and The Quest for the Historical Satan. I might get around to some of the books on rootwork, conjure, and Southern folklore too. Or maybe a few of the gnostic texts. We'll see how my energy holds up in this damned heat.

[vanilla-cigarillos]

Rootwork Amulets

When you get into the intermediate sector of rootwork (A.K.A. Conjure, Hoodoo), you’ll begin seeing amulets. These amulets are typically small and are meant to either attract or dispel chosen intentions/impacts with the wearer.

They are typically made from natural materials (preserved animal parts, plants, bones, stones, etc). 

Ankh Amulet

Probably one of the most popular you’ve seen, the Ankh amulet is meant to represent both the masculine and feminine energies as well as everlasting life. It is also believed by some to represent everlasting life, others believing that when used properly it can help to protect against disease.

Other Amulets

While amulets can genuinely be made from just about anything, there are a few common examples that you’ll probably start noticing once you begin to look. Some of these examples include:

Alligator foot (good luck with money)

Crossbones (absorbs negative energy)

Catclaw (draws power)

Rabbit foot (fertility/good luck)

Wishbone (good luck/wishes)

[3rdeyeblaque]

Today we have the Snow/Bear/Hungry Moon in Virgo [in the Northern Hemisphere] & the Sturgeon/Grain/Red/Dog Moon in Virgo [in the Southern Hemisphere]

This Snow/Bear Moon comes at a time when the global Climate Change Crisis is shifting biomes, evolutionary animal behavior, agroecology, weather patterns, & much more. Or traditional understanding & recognition of these events, whether on Turtle Island or Alkebulan or the Caribbean, will have to shift with it.

Traditionally, this Snow Moon brings the heaviest snowfall of the Winter Season; we may see more or less of this (depending on the areas we inhabit). Widespread hunger is at its peak beneath this Hungry Moon as many of us find ourselves in the throes of Winter's harshness; this may become amplified or diminished in certain regions. This Bear Moon marks the time of year when new Bear cubs are born in the quietude, warmth, & safety of their mothers' dens; the timing of this may shift or the rate of Bear population growth may shift.

•Waning Moon at 07:48 degrees in Scorpio on Friday, February 2nd

•New Moon at 22:58 degrees in Aquarius on Friday, February 9th

•Waxing Moon at 19:40 degrees in Taurus on Friday, February 16th

•Full Moon at 12:30 degrees in Virgo on Saturday, February 24th

🌱 In Rootwork, Full Moons often inform our foraging of certain plants under it's peak Divine Feminine energy.

🔮 In Conjure, some New or Full Moons mark the appropriate time to petition or invoke certain spirits for their service.

[ts-wicked-wonders]

Uncle Monday is a powerful ancestral spirit that persists in southern Hoodoo lore. Uncle Monday is said to have been a medicine man of the shape-shifting variety who was brought to South Carolina with the slave trade. As the story goes, he escaped slavery and went to Florida to live among the Seminoles and the maroons, bringing his crocodile medicine with him.

A larger-than-lite figure in African American folklore, Uncle Monday is celebrated among Florida's Seminole and maroon communities. Hailing from Africa and brought to South Carolina through the harrowing transatlantic slave trade, Uncle Monday's story is one of daring escape and unwavering resilience.

Finding sanctuary among the Seminole and maroons in Florida, Uncle Monday's mystical prowess as a medicine man and hoodoo doctor shines through, with his most remarkable shapeshifting ability being the power to transform into an alligator at will! This incredible metamorphosis serves as a powerful symbol of defiance against oppression and the refusal to bow down to slavery's chains.

As the guardian of his community, Uncle Monday's legend pulses with themes of resistance, resilience, and cultural pride, inspiring generations with his indomitable spirit and unyielding courage.

references:

https://museumoffloridahistory.com/explore/collections/19th-20th-century-artifacts/art-and-ephemera/uncle-monday/

American Rootwork Association (ARA) Blog - American Rootwork Association