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Goofer Dust in Hoodoo Rootwork: History, Meaning, and Traditional Practice
Explore the history, meaning, and traditional beliefs surrounding Goofer Dust in hoodoo, including ingredients, symbolism, ethics, and folklore.
Voodoo men, Hoodoo women, and 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 hens, doorsteps, and the interior and exterior corners of houses to conjure good and to conjure evil. Voodoo & Hoodoo: Their Traditional Crafts Revealed By Actual Practitioners tells how these spiritual sorcerers "lay tricks" and work their magic, and explains the hold these practices have had on their believers, from the Old World origins until today.