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Love

Psalm 33:20-22

Psalm 57:10

Psalm 85:10-11

Psalm 86:15

Psalm 94:18–19

Psalm 100:5

Psalm 138:8

Psalm 143:8

Confidence

Psalm 16:8

Psalm 20:7

Psalm 27:3

Psalm 27:13-14

Psalm 34:1-3

Psalm 71:5

Psalm 118:13

Psalm 139:13–14

Motivation

Psalm 23:1-4

Psalm 26:2-3

Psalm 32:8 

Psalm 34:17

Psalm 37:5

Psalm 37: 23-24

Psalm 121:1–2

Anxiety

Psalm 16:8

Psalm 25: 1–3 

Psalm 27:1-3

Psalm 40:1-3

Psalms 46:1-3

Psalm 56:3

Psalm 61:1-3

Psalm 142:1-2

Money/Abundance

Psalm 1:3

Psalm 34:10

Psalm 37:25-26

Psalm 112:3

Psalm 115:14

Psalm 118:25

Psalm 145:15-16

Fertility

Psalm 4:6-7

Psalm 17:14

Psalm 65:11-13

Psalm 113:9

Psalm 127:3 

Psalm 139:13-14

Power/Strength

- A lot of these mention God’s power, but I believe that God gives us his power. By calling upon God’s power, we are also given strength

Psalm 27:10

Psalm 37:3-4

Psalms 68:35

Psalm 73:26

Psalm 89:13

Psalm 147:4-5

Psalm 121:1-2

Protection

Psalm 4:8 - Protecting your happiness

Psalm 18:16-19

Psalm 23:1-6

Psalm 31:2

Psalm 40:14-15

Psalm 55:16-17

Psalm 91:9-16

Shh…

あさからひなたぼこよ…はるですよ…

I'm basking in the sun from morning today...

I’ve been thinking and researching a lot about the (Black) Southern Gothic style/aesthetic and African American folklore, so I put together a list of books for myself and thought it might be helpful to someone else. 

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FOLKTALE COLLECTIONS

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton | Thrift Books Amazon

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton | Amazon

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston | Amazon Thrift Books

Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon

Go Gator and Muddy the Water : Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers Project by Zora Neale Hurston | Thrift Books Amazon

Lies and Other Tall Tales by Zora Neale Hurston and Joyce Carol Thomas | Thrift Books Amazon

FOLKLORE AND STORYTELLING

Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine | Thrift Books

Shuckin’ and Jivin’: Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans | Thrift Books Amazon

A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas by Harold Courlander | Amazon

The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young | Amazon

Talk That Talk: An Anthology on African-American Storytelling by Linda Goss | Amazon

African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World by Roger Abrahams | Amazon

Deep Down in the Jungle: Black American Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia by Roger Abrahams | Amazon

Singing the Master : The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South by Roger D. Abrahams | Thrift Books Amazon

From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom by John W. Roberts | Amazon

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon

Black Folktales by Julius Lester | Amazon

Folk beliefs of the southern Negro (1926) by Newbell Niles Pucket | Amazon

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner | Amazon

HUMOR

African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (The Library of Black America series) by Mel Watkins, Dick Gregory | Amazon

Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor by Daryl Cumber Dance, Nikki Giovanni | Amazon

STYLE

The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora by Carol Tulloch | Amazon

 Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness by Rebecca Walker, Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Amazon

MAGIC/MYSTICISM

African American Female Mysticism: Nineteenth-Century Religious Activism by Joy R. Bostic | Amazon

Working Conjure: A Guide to Hoodoo Folk Magic by Hoodoo Sen Moise | Amazon

Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition by Ifalaye Books | Amazon

FOLK HEALING

Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing by Michele Elizabeth Lee | Amazon

African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and nonHerbal Treatments by Herbert C. Cove | Amazon

African American Folk Healing by Stephanie Mitchem | Amazon

ADDITIONS: 7/27/2019 (NOTE: As I continue to add books, some of these may deviate from folklore and focus on Black history and/or Black experiences)

Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris | Thriftbooks Amazon

The Skull Talks Back: And Other Haunting Tales by Joyce Carol Thomas & Zora Neale Hurston | Thriftbooks Amazon

Passed On: African-American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway | Thriftbooks Amazon

Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant by Kelly Brown Douglas | Amazon

ps. yeah, i really like both dark and colourful stuff at the same time

there are plenty of ways to work to work a little magic into your day without doing a full on ritual, and your daily (hourly?) tea is one of them! here’s just a couple of suggestions with fruits and their correspondences.

raspberry - love, strength, endurance and reliability

black currant - for  abundance, lust, and fertility

rhubarb -  for fidelity and protection.

mango -  harmony, balance, contentment, fertility. 

strawberry -  for fortune, friendship, and love.

lemon -  for friendship, love, and purification.

cherry -  for divination and love.

blueberry -  for protection.

apple -  for banishment, fertility, healing, love, protection, and purification.

pear -  for wealth, love and lust.

orange -  for beauty, divination, fortune, love, purification, and wealth.

cranberry -  for protection, positive energy, courage, passion, determination, goals, and action

rose-hip - for luck, love, and spirituality. 

pomegranate - for divination, luck, wishes, wealth, and fertility

there are a number of combinations of fruit teas, with other types of fruit as well as spices, herbs, flowers and teas. teas can be simple, easy potions with a variety of brewed intents.