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 DIRECTORY/Society/Spirituality/African/Diasporic/Hoodoo, Rootwork, Conjure, Obeah (12)
i0Drums and Shadows by Mary Granger and the Georgia Writer's Project - http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/das/index.htm - Oral folklore from coastal Georgia, collected from African Americans during the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration; much of the material concerns hoodoo practices.
 
i0Hoodoo - An American magical tradition - http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa091603a.htm - An interview with the author of "Sticks, Stones, Roots, and Bones" about hoodoo and its current popularity.
 
i0Hoodoo in Theory and Practice - http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html - An online book by Catherine Yronwode. Included are descriptions of how to burn candles and incense, sprinkle powders, make mojo bags, prepare spiritual baths and floor washes, perform spells and take off jinxes.
 
i0Hoodoo: An Afro-Diaspora Tradition - http://www.mamiwata.com/hoodoo.html - A New World name of an Ancient African Magical Tradition.
 
i0Index of 19th Century Southern Texts - http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/riedy/texts.html - An archive of texts by Charles W. Chestnutt, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mary Alice Owen that mention African-American hoodoo beliefs that derive from African religious sources. Also included at the site are extracts from Mark Twain's works that mention European-American witchcraft beliefs.
 
i0Luck-Balls; Hoodoo History - http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/riedy/luckb.html - A 19th century account of the making of hoodoo luck balls by Mary Alicia Owen.
 
i0Obeah: Afro-Shamanistik Witchcraft - http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/obeah.html - An occultist's compilation of views on Jamaican Obeah, stressing magical aspects and minimizing religious ones, with extracts from W. Somerset Maugham and Azoth Kalafou.
 
i0Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica by Joseph J. Williams (1934) - http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/ppj/ - An account of spiritual practices and Obeah from the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest who first visited Jamaica in 1906.
 
i0Rethinking the Nature and Tasks of African-American Theology - http://www.mamiwata.com/hoodoo4.html - Anthony B. Pinn of Macalester College provides scholarly examples of how hoodoo and other African-based religious practices form a "second stream" within African-American Christianity, forcing a recognition of theological complexity beyond the merely folkloric or religio-magical orientation of conjure.
 
i0Rootwork: a cyberhoodoo website - http://www.rootwork.com - Arthur Flowers' poetic exploration of contemporary hoodoo.
 
i0Southern Spirits Archive of African American Spirituality - http://southern-spirits.com - Annotated collection of 19th and 20th century primary documents describing hoodoo, conjure, and spirituality in African American society.
 
i0Superstitions & Folklore of the South by Charles W. Chesnutt - http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/projects/riedy/chesnutt.html - This 1901 account of hoodoo in North Carolina is among the earliest that was written by an African American author rather than a white folklorist.
 
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