Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: African: Diasporic: Hoodoo, Rootwork, Conjure, Obeah
See also: - Oral folklore from coastal Georgia, collected from African Americans during the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration; much of the material concerns hoodoo practices. - A New World name of an Ancient African Magical Tradition. - An archive of texts by Charles W. Chestnutt, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mary Alice Owen that mention African-American hoodoo beliefs that derive from African religious sources. Also included at the site are extracts from Mark Twain's works that mention European-American witchcraft beliefs. - An online book by Catherine Yronwode. Included are descriptions of how to burn candles and incense, sprinkle powders, make mojo bags, prepare spiritual baths and floor washes, perform spells and take off jinxes. - A 19th century account of the making of hoodoo luck balls by Mary Alicia Owen. - An occultist's compilation of views on Jamaican Obeah, stressing magical aspects and minimizing religious ones, with extracts from W. Somerset Maugham and Azoth Kalafou. - An account of spiritual practices and Obeah from the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest who first visited Jamaica in 1906. - Anthony B. Pinn of Macalester College provides scholarly examples of how hoodoo and other African-based religious practices form a "second stream" within African-American Christianity, forcing a recognition of theological complexity beyond the merely folkloric or religio-magical orientation of conjure. - Arthur Flowers' poetic exploration of contemporary hoodoo. - Annotated collection of 19th and 20th century primary documents describing hoodoo, conjure, and spirituality in African American society. - This 1901 account of hoodoo in North Carolina is among the earliest that was written by an African American author rather than a white folklorist.
