Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3929ED3B.87B@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.lucky.w,alt.magick,alt.religion.orisha Subject: Kaballah and Hoodoo References: <90.4abb5fa.265ae199@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 02:23:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.136.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 959048603 209.204.136.3 (Mon, 22 May 2000 19:23:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:23:23 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.lucky.w:7465 alt.magick:193590 alt.religion.orisha:6764 A query from email: > I'v read that Hoodoo has some Caballistic (spelling here > may be incorrect, forgive) beliefs...how did Kabbalah > enter African American Hoodoo? Basically, kaballism entered hoodoo during the early 20th century through the distribution of books on European magic, including Jewish magic and mysticism into the African-American community. I have written a series of articles online that explain this osmostic process in some detail. One is the section called "Admixtures" in my page on hoodoo history and the other is a short-write-up of a book called "Secrets of the Psalms." I ahve also written a related article on how medieval German folk-magic entered hoodoo via the book "Pow-Wows or the Long-Lost Friend." Here are the URLs for these articles. Read them in the order named and the subject will be pretty clearly set out for you. Hoodoo History: http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html Secrets of the Psalms: http://www.luckymojo.com/secretspsalms.html Pow-Wows or Long-Lost Friend: http://www.luckymojo.com/powwows.html Good luck, cat yronwode Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets