Hoodoo is not and never was a simple cumulation of folk wisdom from Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans. Hoodoo is 99.9% African, you can look and see the similarities in the way that religions like Palo, referred to as a cousin to Hoodoo, (Cuba) operate as well as non initiatory practices like Obeah (Jamaica). Hoodoo was by those enslaved African and their descendants, that’s who Hoodoo is for. If you don’t have African blood in your veins, this ain’t for you boo. This is inherited and passes down by lineage. If you can’t reach out to your ancestors and be greeted by Black faces, get out of our tradition. If you’re a member of our tradition, stop spreading that watered down bullshit message that it’s just folk magic. I know your ancestors are looking at your disgusted because it wasn’t folk magic when it was helping them find their freedom, it wasn’t folk magic when it gave them some protection from the hands of their masters, it wasn’t folk magic when they prayed to their ancestors for the strength the carry on, when they persevered and adapted their prior religions as best they could to function on this strange land knowing if they were caught their life might end. Put some respect on Hoodoo or keep it out of your mouth.
