Hoodoo..What?
Okay guys, what is hoodoo?? Im totally confused. I need this in simple terms please lol
Blessings :)
Blessings :)
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Permalink Reply by lalalala Lola on -
Kidding, kidding lol
****Hoodoo and Voodoo are often mistaken for one another. Some believe that the terms may have a common etymology. Simply put, Voodoo is a religion, whereas Hoodoo is a group of magical practices. Hoodoo is a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic.
The ancient African religion of Vodoun is an established religion with its ancient roots in West Africa. Its modern form is practiced across West Africa in the countries now known as Benin, Togo, and Burkina Faso, among others. In Haiti, Cuba, and other Caribbean islands, the worship of the Vodoun gods (called lwa or loas) is practiced in a syncretic form that has been greatly modified by contact with Catholicism. The Voodoo of Haiti and Louisiana Voodoo are better known to many English speakers; similar practices among Spanish speakers in Cuba are called Santeria.
Hoodoo shows obvious and evident links to the practices and beliefs of African folk magico-religious culture. The Hoodoo practiced in the U.S. by the enslaved Africans was brought from West and Central Africa, specifically, the area that is now known as the Congo and Angola, Togo, Nigeria and other West African regions.
The goal of hoodoo is to allow people access to supernatural forces to improve their daily lives by gaining power in many areas of life, including luck, money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. As in many other folk religious, magical, and medical practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions, and bodily fluids, especially menstrual blood, urine and semen. Contact with ancestors or other spirits of the dead is an important practice within the conjure tradition, and the recitation of Psalms from the Bible is also considered magically effective in hoodoo. Due to hoodoo's great emphasis on an individual's magical power, its basic principles of working are generally felt to be easily adapted for use based on one's desires, inclination and habits.
Home-made potions and charms form the basis of much old-time rural hoodoo, but there are also many successful commercial companies selling various hoodoo components to urban and rural practitioners. These are generally called spiritual supplies, and they include herbs, roots, minerals, candles, incense, oils, floor washes, sachet powders, bath crystals, and colognes. Many patent medicines, cosmetics, and household cleaning supplies have been also aimed at hoodoo practitioners and have found dual usage as conventional and spiritual remedies.****
****From Wiki ~believe what you may....
I thought there were a few Hoodoo practicioners on this site... hopefully they will see this and be able to answer your questions. Or at least correct me where I am wrong.. I love to learn and sometimes that's the best way to do it :)
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Permalink Reply by Ailyn on -
OMGS!!! When I first saw this post, the first thing that popped into my head was "Dance Magic"!!! YAY LABYRINTH!!!! :D
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Permalink Reply by lalalala Lola on
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Me and you, my dear, are the only ones it seems....lol. :)
"What power? The power of voodoo
Who do? You do
Do what? Remind me of the babe"
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Permalink Reply by Ailyn on
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Sigh, people are so missing out... David Bowie, tight pants... Ahhhh.... :D
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Permalink Reply by AlanHeartsong on -
I never really saw the appeal to David Bowie.
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Permalink Reply by Houngan Matt on -
Oh shush... we all wanted to be Lady Stardust. :-P
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Permalink Reply by Mistral Hart on -
The Labyrinth is one of my FAVORITE movies! good call on the Video!
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Permalink Reply by Toadpipe: the Soylent Magi on -
Hoodoo, is idiots thinking there is a "magical" aspect to vodou traditions that can be removed from ritual and then exploited. No more, no less.
Nothing there.
Hoodoo is a word for the uneducated and the lazy.
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Permalink Reply by lalalala Lola on
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So in your eyes Hoodoo is not a legitimate practice? I'm asking because I don't know anything about it, to be honest... aside from what I read on Wiki. The first I ever heard of it was on this site....
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Permalink Reply by Toadpipe: the Soylent Magi on
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Well, thats an interesting way to phrase it. The thing about Vodou is that it's very ritual based. You do certain things, certain times, certain objects, and the Loa will ride you and give you their wisdom (I'm grossly simplifying). Hoodoo is supposedly less centered on the Loa, and entirely about the practitioner, the trouble is that all of the "power" is you, while in Vodou it comes from the ritual, the specific actions there of. Removing that ritual makes something different. It's possible that those who delve into Hoodoo reach some sort of state where they can channel their own will or desire in an effort to complete a goal, but removed from the ritual the Loa demand, and they do demand, it comes from the practitioner and only them.
Legitimacy is not something I'd say yes or no to. Some schools of thought say that everything is in our mind anyway, so who knows. But, with regard to Vodou, Hoodoo is nothing, there is no "backing" of the power manifest if you will, because they don't honor the Loa.
Some of the practice may be a good focus for personal meditation, and there is some power that can indeed come from that. But if one expects to generate the same UMPH! sitting in their livingroom that the average Vodou house can generate in 10 mins...
Well, best of luck. ;)
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Permalink Reply by Le Herbalist on -
Good Lord... Jesus, Mari and Joseph, enlighten this person. Matthew? Please? A Houngan's voice would be a welcome sound right about now ;D
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Permalink Reply by Houngan Matt on
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Jordan.... I agree with Toadpipe. ;-)
The only think he's missing is the way most hoodoo practitioners have embraced evangelical christianity; there's a HUGE amount within hoodoo.
The magick systems between Hoodoo and Vodou are pretty wildly different at this point, and while hoodoo fascinates me Im going to stick to the trad in which Im an initiate. He's right... after initiation and working within a House, the amount of power that can be thrown around is spectacular in comparison to hoodoo.
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