INDEX
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A
abortion 128
absinthe 107
Adele (NC rootworker) 121
Africa 43
folk medicine 69
age, scientific 93
alchemist 41, 93, 98, 100
Alice Defense 65
America 42, 46, 48, 50, 53-55
American occultists 39
Americans
African Americans 120, 168, 172-173,
174
Dutch Americans 43, 44
German Americans 43, 44
Jewish Americans 174
Native Americans 43, 69, 157
angel 6, 9, 67
God's angels manipulated by humans 93
animal sacrifice (see sacrifice, animal)
animals, dead 143
Anthony, Saint 36
anthropologists 69
anti-cultism 44
Aristotle 100
Armstrong, Karen 95
As above, so below. 45
Asia 43
astrology 40, 47, 50
Atlantis (Dee's America) 43
attention 55, 83
"Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues" 79
B
Babylonians and Sumerians 99
backwards
reading 44
Bailey, Cornelia Walker 31
bagua (8-sided mirror, feng shui) 160
baloney (see superstition)
Baptists, Southern 38, 39, 125
belief 33, *36*, 38, 39, 49, 63,
51-2, 55, 65-67, 83-84, 102,
123-125
belief in dreams
beliefnet.com 26
Bettleheim, Bruno 27, 37, 38
bewitchment 47, 62
Bible 21, 44, 45, 69, 166, 178
bibliomancy
Bible-based 44
black arts 4
"Black Dust Blues" 78-79
black man, the 80
blasphemy 5
Blavatsky, Madam Helen 47
blessing 9
blood 4, 8, 10, 59, 124, 138
bloody dream 124
cat 71
circulation 31
health problem 178
Bloom, Harold 57
Bohme, Jakob 101
Boggs, Wade 25
bondage, discipline,
sadism and masochism (bdsm) 71, 91
bones 138-139
*Book of Shadows* 90
Borg, Marcus 133
Bradley, Marion Zimmer 83
Bride of Christ 3
Britain 46
Bruno, Giordano 117
Buddha 84
Burton, Dan 51
Bug, Dr. 117
pled guilty to practicing medicine
without a license 117
Buzzard, Dr. 117, 121, 159
bones desired by conjures 159
convicted of practicing medicine
without a license 117
many Dr. Buzzards 159
buzzards 159
buzzard dance 159
C
Cabot, Laurie 111
the Official Witch of Salem
Cabot School of Witchcraft 111
Caduceus 99
Cagliostro, Count Alessandro 116
Cake of Light 71
Calvinism 49
Campbell, Joseph 100
candle 7, 69
candle scams 81
dressing a candle 74
genitalia candles 74
three white candles 88
cannibalism 128
Cat (see yronwode, catherine)
Catholics 36, 44, 46, 82, 157
Celts 39
cemeteries 169
ceremony 91
chain letters 42-43
change, intentional 49
channeler 51
chanting 105
charms 69
chicken art 138
chicken sacrifice (see sacrifice)
children 27
books for 37
Christ consciousness virtue 178
Christ formula 131
Christianity 3, 19, 39, 44, 45, 46,
50, 54, 69, 82, 93, 99, 131
Charismatic 54
in hoodoo 157
with a goddess is Wicca 112
Christopher, Saint 106
church 40, 45, 53
churn, magic 47
Cinderella 6
circles (magic; see Wicca)
clairvoyant 47, 49
Clark, Mary Ann 106, 115
Clarke, James Freeman, 46
Clutterbuck, 'Old Dorothy' 90
coffin 7, 8
coincidence 167
cold reading 81
comic books 82
commune 82
community, magical (see magical community)
cone of power (see Wicca)
Congo 169
conjure (see hoodoo)
conjurer 4, 47
Connecticut 41
consciousness 15, 32
Christ consciousness 178
higher consciousness 55
universal unconscious 83
conversion 102
Cosgrove, Jen 145
costumes, ceremonial 103
Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de 40
Crick, Francis 52
criminal 40
cross 22
crossroads (see hoodoo)
Crowley, Aleister 66, 71, 116, 122
cat sacrifice 71, 122
desert demon hand-to-hand combat 116
family 71
feats of trek 116
frog crucifixion 122
identified with the anti-Christ 116
magical vampirism 71
self-mutilation 71
crucifix 3, 9
Crystal Moon 62
'cunning folk' 42
curse 19, 43
cutting 11
D
Dada 129
daimon 139
Dali, Salvador 129
Danforth, Samuel 41
dark energies 139
dark nature 59
dark passions 141
dark side
feminine 127
follower of 86
ignorer of 85
Day, Christian 4, 9, 107-108
death, channeling 145
Dee, John 43, 93, 97, 100
Dee denied commerce with evil spirits 98
Dee's library burnt 98
destiny 47
devil 6, 49, 87
at the crossroads 80
Devine, Carrion Abagail 141-143
Devine, Tracy (aka 'Mistress Tracy')
6-11, 137-144
animal lover 140
childhood 143
class-based values 139
dogs 138
fangs 140
fisherwoman 143
have a human skeleton 138
lives in New Hampshire 138
painter 139
tattoo artist 139
vegetarian 137
witch 139-140
disenchantment 51
world of 66
divination 40, 121
candle wax divination in hoodoo 75
divining rods 43
dousing [dowsing] 43
divine being 92
divine power 45
divining (see divination)
divinity 107
contacting divinity 93
Dr. Bug (see Bug, Dr.)
Dr. Buzzard (see Buzzard, Dr.)
Dr. Kioni (see Kioni, Christos)
doctrine 54
dolls 61-62, 108, 169, 177, 179
Dolls of the Living Dead 108
dousing [dowsing] (see divination)
Dragons of Flammel 99
Drawing Down the Moon 71, 88
*Drawing Down the Moon* (Adler) 90
dreams 107, 124, 143
dreamers 40
druid 26
drums 4, 7, 8
dualism 69
Duchamp, Marcel 128
Duke of Hamilton 118
dumb suppers 41
*Dumbo* 140
*Dust Tracks on a Road* by Hurston 185
Dyer, Aunt Caroline (/Dye) 79
E
Eastern religions 51
Edwards, Jonathan 42
egg 41
Egypt 39
Eliade, Mircea 27
Elizabeth, Queen's coronation 97
Elk, Black 143
elves 67-68, 107
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 45
enchantment 28, 33
energy 59, 178
candlelight a form of 122
concentrated by what humans do 103
deflecting, using a bagwa 160
groups working themselves up 102
secret fire pervading matter 99
sending energy 141
virtue 178
*Entertainment Weekly* 23
Ephrata 41
Ernst, Max 129
Essence of Bend Over floor wash 80-81
Europe 42, 46, 69, 93
evil
evil eye 21-23, 37
evil spirits 14, 34, 98
evil thoughts 114
evocation 119
extraterrestrials 49
eye of Sauron 35
F
Fascists, Italian 117
fairies 50, 109
meeting fairies 109
fairy tales 27, 37, 38
faith 13, 178
falcons 180
feeling, importance of 169
feminine
fiction's value 83
five-fold kiss 71
flagellation (see scourging)
flogging (see scourging)
Floyd, Kitty Boy (The Outlaw,
Oklahoma Knew Him Well) 86
folk medicine 40, 174
Forestville 65, 72, 76
Fort Pierce (see Hurston, Zora Neale)
fortune 37
fortune-teller 37, 47
fortune-telling 40-1, 67, 103
Franklin, Benjamin 41
Freemasons 41, 46, 138
freethinking 40
French, Peter J. 93
Fuller, Robert C. 40, 54
G
Gallows Hill (see Salem)
games clubs 83
Garden of Joy Blues 82
Gardner, Gerald 71, 90
accused sadomasochist and voyeuristic (per King) 91
timing of Gardner 91
Geechee
Gent, Dapper 5-6, 11-12
geometry 55
ghosts 26, 34, 49
Gleik, James 94, 98-99
glossollalia (see speaking in tongues)
Glover, Ken ('the Quaker Mortician') 144-148
and Myrna the Death Puppet 144, 145-152
predictions haven't come true 146
reading for David 150
works in an AIDS outreach center 152
gnomes 50
Gnostics 101
God 5, 14, 18, 19, 35, 42, 49, 68,
88, 93-94, 99, 100, 101, 106,
114, 120, 164-165, 166, 167,
178
*God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man* 30
god of the crossroads 80
God, wisdom of 99
Goddess, the 88-89, 111, 128
Goddess' rites, all acts of pleasure 88
goddess worship 50, 72 128
God, particle of 183
gods 104, 118, 122, 123
Godzilla 84
goofer dust (see hoodoo)
Gorey, Edward (fashion show) 10
gospel of positive thinking 48
Goths 10, 11
Grandy, David 51
graveyard (see hoodoo)
graveyard dirt (see hoodoo)
graveyard work (see hoodoo)
Great Martyrdom Cult ('GMC') 139
great vision 94
Greek rationalism 56, 94
Grim Reaper 145 (also see skeletons)
Grimm, Brothers 37
grimoires 44, 100
guilty, found 124
Guthrie, Woody 78
Gypsy (Salem witch) 88
H
hag 30-32, 158
hair for bird nests 35 (also see hoodoo)
Halloween 41, 102-103
"Halloween" (movie) 139
Myers, Michael 139
Hamlet 5
hands (see mojo bags)
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. 56
Harvard alchemists 41
haunted house 49
healers 13, 44, 49
hearse 7
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 46, 93, 100
Hermeticism suspected of 100
*Phenomenology of Spirit* a grimoire by 100
unworldliness an issue for fans of 100
Hellenism 48
Hermes Trismegistus 94
Egyptian sage 94
mage, magician 94
Hermetic corpus 94
anonymous pseudepigraph origins 95
date of origin misunderstood 95
historical account of Jesus 95
robbed of main claims to legitimacy 95
seems to foretell Jesus' life 94
seems to be a source for Plato 94
stolen from Plato 95
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 46
Hermeticism 93, 98, 100-101, 122
Hess, Rudolph (see Nazis)
Heston, Charleton 5
hex 47
justified (Teish) 121
on Philadelphia commissioner 41
High John the Conqueror root (see hoodoo)
Hillman, James 139
Hilton, Paris 23
hippie 81
history 39, 55-56
Hitler, Adolf (see Nazis)
hogwash (see superstition)
holidays 26
Holiness tradition 44
Holy Ghost 181 (see also In the Name of...)
Holy Guardian Angel 183 (:
hoodoo 44, 64-65 *69*, 73-79, 105,
120, 179
African magic and medicinal
lore 127, 157, 174
anecdotes on radio 118
attacks in 78
baths 169
black cat bone 183
blues music about 78-79, 80
bottle spells 169
burying in 169
Christian character 157
cleansing 169
clients mostly women 74
cemetery doll-coffin burial 169
conjure woman 74
conjure doctors 64, 105, 158-159
conjure docs favour turning
bad magic back on the sender 121
crossroads
ritual 80
working 83
dreams in 157
elements 69
fame seeking 170
goofer dust 120, 169
graveyard 175-180, 185
graveyard dirt 119-120, 169-170 177-180,
185
graveyard work 169, 177
paying for graveyard dirt 170,
177-178
hair and 64, 145, 169
harmful aims in hoodoo 114
High John the Conqueror root 75
Hurston, Zora Neale and hoodoo 168
(also see Hurston, Zora Neale)
invisibility 182-183
'justified' natural result 120
killing enemies 169
killing frogs, cats and bats 122
lady-hearted 120
laying a trick (see hoodoo)79
leave a bad habit behind 169
lodestones (see hoodoo) 85
mail-order businesses 174
money drawing use of red 178
Moon timing 169
nine needles, pins, and nails 169
not a religion 69
not New Age 69
numbers in hoodoo 169
opened container doctored 80
powders, use in 74, 182
practitioners jailed 65
prayer with a barb 120
problems often love-related 74
products 174
protection 169
Psalms used in 120
relation to Jesus essential 127
rootworkers serving others
grow strongest 119
shoes in 169
Safe Travel oil 106
St. Helena Island hoodoo doc 120
sulphur 169
white attitudes toward 168
hoodoo queen 170
hoodoo wagon (hearse) 158
Hopkins, Lightning 174-175
horror fiction 10
horses, sacred 143
Humanism 94
humility 166
Hudson, Kate 73
Hurston, Zora Neale 75, 168-176, 182-183
became a hoodoo conjure 168
burial expenses covered by friends 168
dirt from her grave 170-180
festival annually in Eatonville 177
Garden of Heavenly Rest cemetery,
in Fort Pierce 168, 175-181
grave discovered by Alice Walker 176
grew up in Eatonville 177
headstone 177
lied about her age 177
life 168-171
love affairs 170
poverty of 171
spirit at work 185
Huxley, Aldous 77
I
I Ching 121
idols 103
imagination 165
imaginary playmates 50
immigrants 43
in the name of Jesus 183
In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit 44
Indians (see Americans, Native Americans)
inner reality 49
instruction 106, 111, 119
labor of love 111
intellect
through intellect humans could reach
the wisdom of God themselves without
intermediaries. 99
intelligences, higher 67
intentions 49, 83, 122
intermediaries, without 99
internet 10, 43, 60, 85
invisible friend (see imaginary playmates)
astral masters 67
Iraq 35
Irene 8, 9
irrationality 33, 38
*Isis Unveiled* 47
Islam (Black Muslims, Nation of Islam) 174
J
jackal 110
jack-o'-lantern 30-32
James I 98
James, William 28, 32, 46
Jeff 7-9
Tracy's boyfriend 138
shaved head 138
Jesus 13, 21, 34, 39, 43, 44, 84,
88-89, 94, 110, 121, 127, 131-2,
164, 166, 178, 183
Jesus, begging 110
Jesus in dream (in dark pants and a
white shirt) judges Christine's
innocence in a dream 125
Jesus letter, talismanic 43
Jesus visitation 164
Jews
allying with Blacks 174
Jewish pharmacists as conjure shop
proprietors 174
Jillette, Penn 63
Johnson, Robert 80
Johnson, Tommy 80
Jordan, Michael 25
Judaism
animal sacrifice in 122
Judeo-Christianity 56, 68, 135
Jung, Carl 100, 139
K
kabbalah *55*
Center 23
red thread 23
kairos 48
Kali 127
Kant, Immanuel 100
Ken (see Glover, Ken)
Kennedy, John 174
Kennedy, Robert 174
Keynes, John Maynard 98
Kieckhefer, Richard 56
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 174
Kioni, Dr. Christos 118, 119, 158-167
168-173, 177-184
children 165
clients and 179
co-hosts radio show
(see *Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour*)
Devil's Shoestrings used by 160
drive-away with swept salt 160
effective magician 160
female clients primarily 182
hoodoo and 179
lives in Florida 159
married to Marilyn 160, 161, 165
operations 162
Pentacostal preacher, former 158, 183
pitfalls of magic, not susceptible to 183
Polio and abandonment 161-162
sent revealing photos 159
signs seen by 181
stopped doing love work 184
spell to get a storyteller 160, 167
vision of Mary 161-164
(see also Mary Holy Mother of God)
wears a silver Jesus ring 166
knowledge 24, 52, 61
Koch, Christof 52
Kroll, Diana 181
L
Laveau, Marie 170
grave a site for tourism 170-171
lavender 144
LaVey, Anton 128
laying a trick (see hoodoo)
Le Guin, Ursula 83
Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) 78
Lector, Hannibal 139, 145
Levenda, Peter 118
Lily Dale 20
*Limericks for Young Vampires* 11
linga stones 75
lodestones (see hoodoo)
logos and mythos 95-96
*The Long-Lost Friend*
(*Der Lange Verborgene Freund*) 43
Lord of the Rings 82
Love, Zardoa 107 (see Silver Elves)
Lovecraft, H.P. 83
luck 38, 74
Lucky Mojo Curio Company 65, 72, 76
*Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour* 118-119, 158
Luhrmann, Tanya M. 15
lwa 34
M
Mabon 144
*Macbeth* 25
Madonna (Esther) 23
Mae, Pearlie 162-163
Magee, Glen Alexander 101
magic 4, 12, 13, *15-16*, 18, *23-24*,
26, 33, 35, 38, 42-3, *55*, 103
African magic 78, 79
African American magic 44, 55, 64,
69, 158, 168
American magic 48
antidote magic 42
attraction magic 81, 85-86
bad magic 35, 38, 49, 68, 84, 86,
87, 88, 120
be careful what you wish for 107
belief in magic 39, 51-2, 55, 65-67, 84
Bible magic 44
black magic 118, 120
books, magic 81
bragging about magic 84
breakup spells 170
business magic 84
buzzard wing to remove jinx 159
candle magic 74-75, 159
bolstering, magic for 66
cause is justified 170
Christo-magic 44
clergy and magic 45
clothes, magic 79
clouds, magic to blow up 62-63
countermagic 47
court work (aka court case fixing) 169
Crowley and magic 66
death spells 169
defined, magic *55*, 92
Devil's Shoestrings use 160
energy, magic as 91
finding magic 36
finding treasure, magic for 47
folk magic 55, 91
focussed on energy/power 91
food and magic 140
footprint magic 69
for hire, magic 105, 107
gambling luck magic 79
gay men disproportionately
involved in magical arts 182
God and magic 35
God summoning magic 109-110
good magic 37, 38, 68, 74, 86, 108
167
hair in 145
harmful magic 114, 120
healing magic 106
hex (curse) 47, 114, 119
hex removal (see magic, uncrossing magic)
high magic 91, 92-93, 101, 122
history of magic 51, 104
hoodoo (see hoodoo)
husband-summoning 41, 85-86
importance of magic 48
inclinations
Indian (Native American) magic 157
irrational magic 38
justice magic 44
killing 120
lavender magic 144
lodestone magic 85
love magic 62, 79, 85, 170
low magic 91
*maleficia* 114, 120
mirror magic 41
money magic 24, 74
new magic 104
personal concerns, magic and
(hair, clothes, footprints,
name paper, etc.) 69
people turning to, desperate 166
pitfalls of magic 183
poisoning magic 80
powders (see hoodoo)
power, magic 91
practical magic 91
precursor to science 94
proof of magic 66
prosperity magic 83
protection magic 41, 74
proving magic 167
pumpkin magic 140
rain magic 81
religion and magic 44
Saint Magic 44
salt on hagskins 159
salt swept after to drive away 160
serious magic 106
sex magic 47, 70-71, 182
sieves to catch hags 158
spirit magic 67
spiritual magic
sports magic 26
students of magic 62
'surrender before you believe' 166
thinking, magic is a way of 66
transgressive thinking and magic 40
uncrossing magic 83
wax in spells 75
what works 36, 43, 69, 81, 84, 105
Wiccan magic 55, 104
magical
magical attack 77
magical beliefs (see magic, belief in magic)
magical books 41, 44
magical communities 56, 69
magical concepts 46, 49, 69, 114
magical culture 61
magical mixtures 69
magical people *38*, 52, 63, 67, 83, 85,
86, 96, 103
magical people are anything
but humble 166
magical people are not hopeless
or powerless 166-167
magical people, demythologizing the 61
magical people, hard-core *38*
magical people seek wisdom by
looking backward 92
magical powders 79
magical power, outlandish tales of 84, 92
magical shop 61-62, 73-75, 88, 103
magical tenets 45
magical theory 49
magical thinking 28, 39, 44, 48-9, 66
91, 94, 166
racial superiority is 117
Himmler use of corpse heads
to communicate with masters 117
secret or used to be, magical thought 173
surrender to enter into 166
magical women and their consorts 85-86
magical worldview 46
magician 47, 96, 109, 140
magician, greatest modern (Crowley) 116
magicians, Renaissance 115
*Magic, Mystery, and Science* 51
magnetic sand 81
mahatmas 47
Mary, Virgin, Mother of God 14, 84, 161-164
Masons (see Freemasonry)
Massachussetts 40, 41
Masters, Robert 50-51
Mather, Cotton 41
Mather, Increase 41
McTeer, Ed 117
meaning in coincidental events 47
Memphis Jug Band 79, 130
Mercury 99
Merton, Thomas 127
mess, that (see hoodoo)
Messmer, Anton 46
metal bending 81
Methodists 14-15
Miami 115
prosecuting attorney powdered 116
voodoo squad 115
Miller, Henry 77
mirror 41
mojo bags 69, 79, 106, 169
Mojo Car, The 84
monk 22, 23, 127-128
Moses 94
wisdom of Moses 94
*Mother Bunch's Closet* 41
mundanes 4-5, 66, 84
muggles 4
Murray, Margaret 90
music 78
American rural 78
Blues 78
church 102
Myers, Michael (see "Halloween")
Myrna the Death-Puppet
(see Glover, Ken)
mysticism 45
mythos and logos 95-96
myths 27, 82
N
nagasiva (see yronwode, nagasiva)
name paper 69
naming 24
Native Americans (see Americans)
Nazis
Hess, Rudolf occult believer 118
Himmler, Heinrich 117
Hitler turned against occultism 118
realm of the dead under dining hall 118
some fascist tenets fostered
by magical thought 117
SS paganism 118
near-death experience 50
negative ideation 38
Neo-Nazis (see Nazis)
Neo-pagans 82, 88
New Age 48, 69
New England 47
New Orleans 26, 170
Superdome 26
New York 47
*New York Times* 26, 52
Newman, Jacqui 145
Newton, Sir Isaac 93, 98-99
'last of the magicians' Keynes 99
Newton the New Solomon 98
trunk of papers auctioned (1936) 98
Nicole 3, 7
Nietzzsche, Friedrich 94
numbers 44
nun 3, 7, 9, 26
O
Oakland 80
occult 16, 46
books 44
history 39
practice 51
strength and knowledge 49
offense and journalism 84
offerings of thanks 107
oils 69, 74
Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) 72
orishas 107
outside-the-church Christo-magic 44
outside the Judeo-Christian tradition 45
P
pacts with the devil 80, 86-87
paganism 26, 27, 83, 88, 103
Parsons, Jack 117
d. 1952 (chem exp [explosion]) 117
thought Crowley's successor 117
Pascal, Blaise 52
past life experiences 60
pea pod 41
Peabody Essex Museum 103
peep-stones 47
penis amulets (Thai 'Palad Khik') 74
Penn & Teller 63 (see also Jillette, Penn)
Pennsylvania 41, 43
pentacle 108, 140
Pentacostals 13, 44, 102
*Phenomenology of Spirit* (Hegel) 100
Philadelphia
Eagles 26
Inquirer 26
lawyer 36-8
Philosopher's Stone 41
physical world
pie in the sky 49 (also see superstition)
pigeon drops 81-82
Pinkney, Roger 117
*Pirates of the Caribbean II* 73
plants 69
Plato 27, 100, 139
poet 45, 47
polytheism 67, 72
positive-thinking 48
possessory religions 55
Poirier, Shawn (the Witch) 7-11, 61,
63, 107-109, 138, 144
previously a Pentacostal 109
psychic speciality 109
sleeping fairy trade magical adeptship
for ability to love truly/deeply 109
speaking in tongues 109
Potter, Harry 4
powders (see hoodoo)
prayer 69, 83
prayer with a barb (hoodoo) 120
preaching 102
pride 49
priest 26
*prisca theologia*
(one true theology) 100
protection magic 41
Protestantism 39, 99, 157
Psalms 106
psychic 49
pumpkins 140, 144
punishment for bragging about magic 84
Puritans 40-4, 49
psychic 37, 109
Q
Queen of the Vampires (see Devine, Tracy)
questions of spiritual belief 55
questions in consultation 75-76
quicksilver 98
R
rain magic 81
Rainey, Ma (Gertrude) 78
*The Rainmaker* 109
Randolph, Paschal Beverly Randolph 47, 117
Rasputin, Gregory 116-117
razor 8
Rede 89
Red Sox 26
religion 28-29, *44*
African diasporic 122
authorities in religions 45
Catholicism and Protestantism
rejoined and healed 100
clergy in religion 45
emotionalism, excessive, 102-103
of love and unity, Hermetic vision 100
problems for religions proclaimed good 89
Renaissance, The 93-94
resurrection 41
revivals 42
Rice, Anne 10, 83
*Interview With a Vampire* 10
ritual 54, 83, 102, 105, 144
Christine's Salem witch rite 88
coming of age ritual 108-110
*Ritual Magic in England*, by Frances King 91
robes 111
rod, magic 47
rootwork (see hoodoo)
Rosalee (see Walker, Alice)
Roszak, Theodore 48
Rome 39, 55, 94
S
sacred geometry 55
sacrifice 106
animals 107, 119, 122-123
cat 183
chicken 119
frog 122
hair 144
in Christianity 122
in Judaism 122
in Santeria 122
emotional abilities 109
for others 108
money 107
payment/food (African+) 122
sin expiation, Jewish and Christian) 122
torture forbidden in the US 123
Safe Travel oil (see hoodoo)
saints 44, 107
Salem 3, 7, 8, 12, 39, 41, 61, 88,
102-103, 109-113
commercialism 103-104
coven 3
disputes within 103
Gallows Hill 102-103
monument 103
Official Witch (see Cabot, Laurie)
Old Town 103-105
witch trials 39
salvation 42
Sapelo Island, GA 30-31
Sandburg, Carl 78
Santeria 55, 106, 115, 121, 122
animal sacrifice in 122
Lacumi (Yoruba) 121
Santeria dust 116
Satan 5, 68
Satanism Scare 44
American 44, 131
Satanist
blood-pact 127
spiritual questions 131
scepticism 59, 165, 171
Schelling, Friedrich 46
schizotypal 67
Schlesinger, Arthur 46
Schneider, Mark A. 30
scholars 56, 100, 101
science 20, 30, 32, 51-3, 66-67, 99, 165
Scottish Play (see *Macbeth*)
scourging 3, 10, 11, 71, 91
scripture 54
self-help 48, 49, 131
selling your soul 80
semen, male and female 98
sermons 103
serpents 99
sex 72
sex magic 70
Shakespeare 25
Shawn (see Pourier, Shawn)
shrine 170-171
Siddons, Sarah 25
signs 35, 37, 47, 159
signs and omens 47
signification 51
*The Silent Life* (Merton) 127
Silver Elves 67-68, 107
Silver Flame 68
Zardoa Love 67, 107
silvery bells 67
singing 105
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 42
Sisters of Eternal Damnation 7
Siva (see yronwode, nagasiva)
skeleton 73, 138, 140
*The Skeleton Key* 73
skull 147
skull and crossbones 138
"So mote it be!" 145
Socialism 76
sodomy 128
'sorceries, little' 41
soul
soul hunger 51
soul's imperative 139
speaking in tongues
(glossollalia) 102, 108
Spears, Britney 23
spell 62, 69, 79, 141
attract love 79, 85
attract storyteller 167
death spells 170
healing pets 106
love spells 170
prosperity 83-84
spell kit 66
spellbook 44 (Bible)
spirits 34, 37, 41, 115, 120, 169-171
183-184
calling on a spirit 169
crossing water problematic for 170
elven spirits 107
Lord's Prayer as protection from 170
protecting and guiding spirits 169
spirits and forces animate
everything 99
spirits (of the) dead 41, 47, 120,
169-171, 177-178 181, 182-184
spirits, evil 14, 34, 98
spiritual
adepts 50
people 52
Spiritualism 20, 23, 26, 41, 46,
67, 110, 135, 183
spirituality 130-131
spirituality, feminine 91
SS (see Nazis)
Stamp Act 41
stars
can be influenced by humans 93
living entities 93
shape human destiny 93
Steiner, George 48
Stiles, Ezra 41
story greater than what ordinary
life provides 95
stories, old 96
storytelling 21, 34, 83
stuff, that (see hoodoo)
suicide 128
Super Bowl 26
superstition 48, 168
symbols 3, 27, 44, 55, 99
T
Tarot 121, 183
tattoo 3, 8, 10, 139, 140
technology of the sacred 55, 91
Teish, Luisah 120
Teisan 144
television 26
temple prostitutes 72
*Ten Great Religions* by Clarke 46
*Their Eyes Were Watching God* by Hurston 170
Theosophical Society 47
thinking (see thought)
Thorndike, Sybil 25
thought
bad thoughts 77-78
evil thoughts 114
freethinking 40
optimistic thoughts 49
think your way to success 49
magic is a way of thinking 66
magical thinking 28, 39, 44, 48-9, 66
91, 94, 166
racial superiority is 117
Himmler's use of corpse heads
to communicate with masters 117
secret or used to be 173
surrender to enter into 166
transgressive thinking and magic 40
three-fold law 89
throwing down (powders) 122
Tibet 47
Tolkien, J.R.R. 35, 82-83
Toomer, Jean 177
Towel, Jim 79
Tracy, Mistress (see Devine, Tracy)
Transcendentalists 45
Correspondence 45
Imminence 45
Influx 45
traps 44 (grimoires as traps)
transexual 9
truth, literal (*logos*) 96
U
understand everything, call to 94
universal unconscious 83
University oif California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) 77
University of Georgia, Marine Institute 30
unseen pattern of meaning
(to all things/events) 100
urban voodoo, book on
urine 47
V
Valiente, Doreen 90
vampire 3-11, 15, 59-61, 89, 137-141
groups, vampire 60
psi vampire 4
Queen of the Vampires (see Tracy)
Vampires and Victims Ball 3-11
Van den Broek, Roelof 56
virtue (see 'energy' or 'power')
vision, hypnopompic 163-165
visionary experience 54
of Florence Nightingale 165
of Joan of Arc 165
of Rene Descartes 165
of Saul of Tarsus 165
of Thomas Edison 165
of Walt Whitman 165
Voegelin, Eric 100
voice 128
voodoo 4, 15, 26, 34-35, 55, 64, 122
170
animal sacrifice 122
W
Walker, Alice 175-176
and Rosalee 175
Walker, Cousin Charles 31
water-witching (see dousing)
Weber, Max 51
werewolf 7
Western culture 56
Whitman, Walt
*Song of Myself* 45
Wicca 16, 54, 55, 68, 71, 88-90, 95,
102, 112-113, 122
beginnings shrouded in falsehood
and misunderstanding 95
charging for magic discouraged 105
Christianity with a goddess 112
circles 102, 104-105
Cone of Power 102, 122
Drawing Down the Moon 71, 88
ethical restraints 89
fluffybunny Wicca magic 44
maligned as too 'white light' 89
'the Jehovah's Witnesses of the
magical community' 89
'Wiccan magic is good magic' 88
Wicked Witch of the West 105
Wicker, Christine 104-105, 118, 123-124
belief in dreams 125
collects chicken images 138
dog named Pogo 164
dualist ideas damed almost everything 134
family 103, 125
fears (disease, death, bad magic,
airplanes, terrorists, not blacks) 158
good deeds seen differently by 134
mother fearful of Christine's
occult investigations 125
heavy breather on LMHR??! 118
ideas about good and evil, keeps 123
Jesus (dressed in dark pants and
a white shirt) judges dream
innocence of Christine 125
magic began 124
Myrna meeting 146
paradox, her unnamed 152-153
trip to the graveyard 168-193
visited by Jesus 164
vows not to torture chickens 123
Wicked Witch of the West 105
witch ritual 144-145
wild, protecting the 130
will 4, 45, 49, 66
will, against his 182
will to believe 66
Wilson, Colin 116
window between the worlds 51
Winthrop, John, Jr. 41
wisdom
ancient wisdom steeping
mild-eyed old men 123
humans need to fulfill
the highest hopes
of their humanity 97
of God 99
witch 3, 4, 27, 39, 47, 62, 88, 90,
103, 108-113, 140, 144
bewitchment 47
Glinda the Good Witch 84
ranks of witches 111
Wicked Witch of the West 105
witch bottles 47, 112
witches' amen 144
witches, Italian (Stregha) 144
witch doctor 26
witch lessons 112
witch wars, common in magical world 112
witch wars, money at the heart of 112
witchcraft 111
witchery 111
witches, real 104, 112
witches sabbats 144
witches, old fashioned 108
witching, water (see divination)
wizard 47, 103
words 37, 44
of power 37
world of disenchantment 66
World Parliament of Religions (1892) 46
X
Xana (the red-haired woman) 3, 7, 10
Y
Yale University (president) 41
Yeats, William Butler 46, 143
yronwode, catherine 65, 68, 70, 73-77,
80-81, 84-85, 118, 126-128, 135, 157,
158, 171, 174-175, 181, 183
astrology and 81, 85
children 81
childhood 70, 76-77, 81
co-hosts radio show
(see *Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour*)
conjure shop visit 80-81
Jewish 65, 76, 127, 174
'a little Talmudic scholar' 73
drugs and 82
favourite deities Siva and Jesus 127
husband [nagasiva] (see yronwode, nagasiva)
neo-Tantric practice 86
parents 76
rain magic 81
teaches course on hoodoo 158, 181, 183
worked at a coffehouse 174-175
yronwode, nagasiva ('Siva') 75,
85-86, 126-130, 132, 135
believes as little as possible 126
blood pact with Satan in support
of wildness of earth 86-87, 127
catalyzing change of consciousness
in the human species (Church of
Euthanasia member) 128
considers himself a Christian 131
Curse of Allah brought down by 132
daDaesque method of CoE 128
drugs, sex, rock'n'roll 128
GMC (see 'Great Martyrdom Cult')
Ironwood Drive House of Kaos 85
monk, dedicated to Kali with vows 127-128
neo-Tantric practice 86
tyagi nagasiva (initiated name) 85
vow of poverty (income limit) 132
wife [catherine] (see yronwode, catherine)
works online, networking 130
Z
Zardoa (see Love, Zardoa)
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