A transformative blueprint of ancestral healing from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls
A system of divination inspired by the Libyan Sibyls, the African prophetesses of the classical world
• Includes 44 full-color cards in Latin and English with a comprehensive guidebook
• Details how to consult the oracle, providing in-depth write-ups about the meaning of each card and the symbolic language represented by their imagery
• Designed to directly a
A divination deck and guidebook rooted in the American Hoodoo tradition
• Includes 78 full-color Tarot cards that depict legendary rootworkers past and present as well as important Hoodoo archetypes and symbols
• Provides in-depth card meanings for each card in the Major Arcana and the four suits of the Minor Arcana, including the history of the rootworker or symbol featu
African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive.
A Marvelous Blend
of Memoir, Folk Wisdom,
and Afro-American Beliefs.Actress, storyteller, and priestess Luisah Teish dramatically re-creates centuries-old African-American traditions with music, memoir, and folk wisdom.
Hoodoo is an eclectic blend of African traditions, Native American herbalism, Judeo-Christian ritual, and magical healing. Tracing Hoodoo's magical roots back to West Africa, Stephanie Rose Bird provides a fascinating history of this nature-based healing tradition and gives practical advice for applying Hoodoo magic to everyday life.
Hoodoo is a bold spiritual tradition that helps enhance your wellbeing and solve everyday problems. This practical, do-it-yourself guide shows you how to use spells, rites, recipes, mojos, and curios to enrich your life and be ready for whatever comes your way.
A reader-friendly, fun, and practical guide to improving one's love life, career, health, and overall happiness with African American folk magick.
In this groundbreaking book that places Rootwork in its rightful spot among other magickal traditions, Tayannah Lee McQuillar offers a fun and practical guide to improving your life with the help of African American folk magick.
Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence).
An introduction to the spiritual source of the beliefs and practices that have so profoundly shaped African American religious traditions.
Most of the Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas were from the Yoruba nation of West Africa, an ancient and vast civilization.
$11.69ISBN: 9781580911498Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Crossing Press - January 28th, 2003In the realm of African spiritual pathways, no tradition is so widely embraced and practiced as the West African religion Orisa. Awakened by her own spiritual journey, Tobe Melora Correal, an initiated priestess in the Yoruba-Lukumi branch of Orisa, guides us along this blessed road.
$14.36ISBN: 9781496722201Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dafina - September 24th, 2019FROM PREPARATION TO CELEBRATION,
MAKE YOUR KWANZAA A FAMILY TRADITION!
$29.65ISBN: 9781478003106Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Duke University Press - May 10th, 2019In Queering Black Atlantic Religions Roberto Strongman examines Haitian Vodou, Cuban Lucum /Santer a, and Brazilian Candombl to demonstrate how religious rituals of trance possession allow humans to understand themselves as embodiments of the divine. In these rituals, the commingling of humans and the divine produces gender identities that are independent of biological sex.
$15.26ISBN: 9780872861718Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: City Lights Books - January 1st, 2001Secrets of Voodoo traces the development in Haiti and the Americas of this complex religion from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods of loas and their function, the symbols, signs, rituals and the ceremonial calendar of Voodoo; and the procedures for performing magical rites are given.
$16.00ISBN: 9780615708744Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Waterhears - October 16th, 2013What exactly does it mean to grow up Yoruba? For author Kemba Mchawi, it meant juggling the vastly different worlds of being a teenager in Brooklyn with the curious practices of a religion that started in Africa.
$15.26ISBN: 9781578636952Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Weiser Books - May 11th, 2020An inspiring exploration of the goddesses of the West African spiritual traditions and their role in shaping Yoruba (Ifa), Santeria, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo.
Throughout Africa and beyond in the diaspora caused by the slave trade, the divine feminine was revered in the forms of goddesses like the ancient Nana Buluku, water spirits like Yemaya, Oshun, and Mami Wat
$15.26ISBN: 9781578636730Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Weiser Books - February 1st, 2020The life and work of the legendary “Pope of Voodoo,” Marie Laveau—a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s
Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours.
$17.06ISBN: 9781578636273Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Weiser Books - September 1st, 2018Conjure, also known as Hoodoo or Rootwork, is an old, powerful, and increasingly popular system of North American folk magic.
$17.06ISBN: 9781578636440Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Weiser Books - February 1st, 2019The spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empowerment, and liberation.
The historical role that magic and soothsaying played in the Underground Railroad has long been ignored out of fear it might diminish the legacy of Harriet Tubman and other heroes of that time.$26.95ISBN: 9780822370383Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Duke University Press - February 27th, 2018From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility.
