Not in Kansas Anymore
“—E. M. FORSTER 9.
What to Do When the Mother of God Comes Calling If I really wanted to know about hoodoo, I would need to talk with African American rootworkers, Cat told me. Hoodoo’s combination of African magic and Christian ideas is an oral tradition handed down from generation to generation since slave days. It has a Catholic flavor in Louisiana and a Protestant flavor in other parts of the South. As blacks intermarried and mingled with Native Americans, it sometimes picked up elements of ...Indian magic. When they moved during the Great Migration, it sometimes picked up elements of magic practiced in the eastern and northern United States. Each hoodoo doc taught things his own way, and although there have been white people who practiced the magic, it belongs to African Americans in a way that it can never belong to anyone else. It’s their heritage, running through their blood, showing up in their dreams, speaking to them in a voice they understand better than anyone else.
“You’ll have to go into black neighborhoods,”MoreLess
What to Do When the Mother of God Comes Calling If I really wanted to know about hoodoo, I would need to talk with African American rootworkers, Cat told me. Hoodoo’s combination of African magic and Christian ideas is an oral tradition handed down from generation to generation since slave days. It has a Catholic flavor in Louisiana and a Protestant flavor in other parts of the South. As blacks intermarried and mingled with Native Americans, it sometimes picked up elements of ...Indian magic. When they moved during the Great Migration, it sometimes picked up elements of magic practiced in the eastern and northern United States. Each hoodoo doc taught things his own way, and although there have been white people who practiced the magic, it belongs to African Americans in a way that it can never belong to anyone else. It’s their heritage, running through their blood, showing up in their dreams, speaking to them in a voice they understand better than anyone else.
“You’ll have to go into black neighborhoods,”MoreLess
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