ISBN-13: 978-0942272185
ISBN-10: 0942272188
Voodoo men, hoodoo woman & root doctors say they know how to use eggs, graveyard dust, forks in the road, the numbers 3, 7, and 9, pins and nails, red flannel bags, yellow homespun urine, feces and blood, shoes and clothing, black cats and black hands, doorsteps, and the interior and exterior corners of houses to conjure good and to conjure evil. Voodoo & Hoodoo tells how the spiritual descendants of African medicine men and sorcerers "lay tricks" and explains the hold these practices have had on their believers, from their Old World origins until today.
229 pages.