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I’ve seen a lot of great discussion online about Remmick and his hive mind vampire cult as a metaphor for cultural appropriation and the way white culture absorbs marginalized—especially Black—cultures’ creativity and beauty but only wants to use & exploit it without giving a fuck about the people who created it. Which, yes! And I love that blues music with its deep ties to African roots, as well as being an expression of both the pain and resilience of Black people, is what saved Sammie and the group and defeated the vampire clan.

But I wish there was more discussion about Annie and her root work! Now, I am FAR from an expert on root work, hoodoo, or voodoo. But the little I know about it, I think is so amazing! The syncretic African religions and practices of the American South like New Orleans voodoo and the root work that Annie does have just as deep and meaningful ties to the ancestors and the West African homeland as blues! There’s a reason almost every blues song has something in it about mojo. Or going down to the crossroads. They are deeply intertwined!

And it’s Annie’s intuition that saves the group from initially inviting Remmick into the club. AND her knowledge of the supernatural that saves the group by knowing how to fight the vampires!

Smoke is very skeptical about her magic—and bitter that it failed to save their infant daughter—but he still wears Annie’s mojo bag out of love and devotion. And it turns out it really did protect him! It saves him from being bit by Stack. And that moment when he takes it off to ambush the Klan because he’s ready to join Annie and their baby after this last stand…it’s so powerful!

Anyways, I don’t know if this is coherent. I just love Annie! And I was so excited to see root work and hoodoo/voodoo portrayed in such a beautiful way that felt so authentic and honest, rather than demonizing and misportraying it as Hollywood usually does. Even Annie speaking the African language (I apologize, I don’t know which language specifically. Subtitles said Yoruba. I hope that’s correct) was a really beautiful touch. It’s clear that Coogler and his team did their research and approached it with a lot of respect.

And Wunmi Mosaku gave such a stellar performance as Annie and looked drop dead gorgeous while doing it!!

The. Road. Is. Real.

Billy created a real place. With real effects on the people involved in it. Wanda created real children. Billy is one of them. The Scarlet Witch and Wiccan are capable of creating their own realities. These are not fake after the fact. There are real effects on the people of Westview from Wanda's reality. Imagine how they must have to contend with ptsd from a 'fake' reality. They probably still live together so that they don't feel crazy. Their neighbours validate their experiences.

So much of witchcraft is belief. Billy and Wanda have enough power to make their beliefs fully realised quicker and with nuance and automation. Gaslighting witches is saying that they are crazy to think that what they believe is true.

Jennifer healed Billy with water, moonlight and incantation! Generations of rootwork training from her African-American ancestors!

Anyway, Wanda dismantled her hex, but I'm not convinced that Billy dismantled his road just by putting a solid lid on it. It probably no longer glows blue with his magic, but I bet it exists if another witch's belief seeks it out.

The song itself has created a new belief, no matter the con Agatha thinks it is. In my opinion, the song and the road it leads to continue to be real enough. They both represent hope for wretched witches after all.

Anyway, recommended reading these wonderful books about root work in the Gullah-Geechee culture (Root Magic by Eden Royce) or about root magic in an African-American family with a generational curse uncannily similar to Alice Wu's family (The Legendborn Cycle by Tracy Deonn).

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