American Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs that were created by enslaved Melanated American Aboriginals in the Southern United States from various traditional hebraic spiritualities, regarding the Popol Vuh, Mormonism and elements of Mayan, Aztecah indigenous botanical knowledge. Practitioners of Hoodoo are called root workers, conjure doctors, conjure man or conjure woman, root doctors, shaman, Hoodoo doctors, and swampers. Regional synonyms for Hoodoo include conjure or rootwork. Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of Cuauhtēmallān people of Central America in guatamala.
American Hoodoo is The most well-known American folk magic that originated from Melanated American Aboriginal slaves and is called Hoodoo. There are other names for it such as root-work and conjure. Hoodoo is a spiritual practice that stemmed from a mixture of Melanated American Aborigines and Siberian Native American mongoloid traditions; however, it’s NOT the same thing as Voodoo. Voodoo is a religion, not a spiritual practice. The American spiritual practice of Hoodoo has its roots in the Deep South of the U.S. – from Louisiana to Alabama, from Mississippi to Georgia.
by Desert flower September 20, 2023