Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F0083DC.D2BD058@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Reply-To: cat@luckymojo.com Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: New Here! References: <3EFFD8E1.70807@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:29:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.150.101 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1056997768 209.204.150.101 (Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:29:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:29:28 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:350727 farid al-qahar wrote: > > These are some of the role models I have learned from over the balance > of 15 years. There are numerous others, but some of the more prominent > and alluring came to mind first. > > Maybe Cat can recommend some female figures? Why? 'Cause i'm female? I mean, i'll oblige, but i also follow the exploits of male magicians -- and i think men ought to keep up to date on the exploits of female mages as well. I am an equal-opportunity-mage-admirer. Okay, anyway, here are two "female figures" i admire: Madame Collins -- a rootworker from Memphis, Tennessee who was interviewed by Harry M. Hyatt in the late 1930s; an excellent conjure doctor and a patient teacher; the only hoodoo whom Hyatt interviewed twice over the course of his four-year odyssey through the South, due to her extensive knowledge and deft expression of it; i use and teach some of her herb-based spells, and find them quite valuable. Aunt Caroline Dye -- a spiritist conjure doctor from Newport, Arkansas, born in the mid 19th century and thus roughly contemporary with the founders of the Golden Dawn; she was known for her healings and cures, her efficacious mojo bags, her ability to tell the future for clients, her many acts of charity in the local community, and for the fact that at least three songs were written about her during her lifetime. Read more about her at http://www.luckymojo.com/auntcarolinedye.html cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html