tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-778118747102568082.post8783396407122376326..comments2023-01-13T15:20:07.717-05:00Comments on Spirit Writer: Neo-Hoodoo - The New Cultural AppropriationTDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04300070128618803730noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-778118747102568082.post-91958789540321203942013-09-11T14:26:46.212-04:002013-09-11T14:26:46.212-04:00Candi,
Thanks so much for taking the time to read...Candi,<br /><br />Thanks so much for taking the time to read my post and sharing your insights on hoodoo. It's interesting you say that hoodoo doesn't use fire as it seems some modern practitioners have incorporated candle work into their hoodoo. Do you think they're wrong?<br /><br />I'm not sure but I think that Gerald Gardner took from different traditions including African and blended them with European practice to create Wicca. Since Wicca has informed so much of modern witchcraft maybe that's why some witches feel that hoodoo isn't that different. That's just a not so fleshed out theory mind you, but I do wonder.<br /><br />You said - "Hoodoo is about bending your own soul and manipulating your own spirit until it is in total alignment with God and then all roads open without penalty."<br /><br />That is so elegantly stated and I think something for people interested in hoodoo to think and pray on past a surface level. Thank you.TDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04300070128618803730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-778118747102568082.post-3569051201183863692013-09-09T17:00:28.244-04:002013-09-09T17:00:28.244-04:00I'm shocked no one has commented on this post!...I'm shocked no one has commented on this post! This is actually an honest post. The amazing thing to me is that a witch would want to adopt or incorporate a practice that is totally against witchcraft. In Africa a "witch" doctor was a doctor who healed people who had been cursed by witches. Hoodoo, Voodoo and other African traditions are %100 against witches. For a witch or one who practices witchcraft to want to mix their religion with such practices brings up questions of their own authenticity. <br /><br />I would like to think that witchcraft is so self-contained, together and well organized that it need not bother with "little old" Hoodoo! LOL! Fact is many people who have become possessed through foul practices of witchcraft have had to go to the Hoodoo doctor to be healed. Hoodoo is about bending your own soul and manipulating your own spirit until it is in total alignment with God and then all roads open without penalty. Witchcraft is about bending and manipulating God's will in spite of the soul and that leaves the individual wide open for evil spirits to consume the soul. <br /><br />Real hoodoo does NOT use fire to bring in blessings of love or money, because that is not in line with nature. Fire consumes, fire repels, fire destroys. Real hoodoo uses water and dirt, because they give life.<br /><br />There is NO way to mix anything with hoodoo without taking away its power. It simply does not work. If you use FIRE to bring in money, there maybe temporary results, but in hoodoo common sense you just burnt your blessing and the change will NOT LAST. <br /><br />Hoodoo was invented to open the road that was blocked by oppression and injustice, not to practice selfish "spells". <br /><br />Hoodoo also does not use spells, they use recipes. The only thing that needs to change with hoodoo is its delivery, but there is no way that the real power of hoodoo will ever be realized by mixing it with witchcraft.Candihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09271241946029224624noreply@blogger.com