what is hoodoo??

Answer 1

Hoodoo refers to African-American traditional folk magic. A rich magical tradition which was (for thousands of years), indigenous to ancient African botanical, magio-religious practices and folk cultures, its practice was imported when mainly West Africans were enslaved and brought to the United States.
Hoodoo is used as a noun and is derived from the Ewe word "Hudu," which still exists today. Hoodoo is often used in African-American vernacular to describe a magic "spell" or potion, or as a descriptor for a practitioner (hoodoo doctor, hoodoo man or hoodoo woman), or as an adjective or verb depending upon context. The word can be dated at least as early as 1891.* Some prefer the term hoodooism, but this has mostly fallen out of use. Some "New Age" non-Diaspora practitioners who have taken up Hoodoo as a hobby employ synonyms to include conjuration, conjure, witchcraft, or rootwork, The latter demonstrates the importance of various roots in the making of charms and casting spells. It is important to note that in traditional African religious culture, the concept of "spells" is not used. Here again, this Afro-botanical practice has been heavily used by the New Age, and Wiccan communities who have little understanding of "Hoodoo's" spiritual significance as it is traditionally used in Africa. An amulet characteristic of hoodoo is the mojo, often called a mojo bag, mojo hand, conjure bag, trick bag, or toby; this is a small sack filled with herbs, roots, coins, sometimes a lodestone, and various other objects of magical power.
As can be expected, most practitioners of hoodoo are African American, but Whites and Native Americans also use hoodoo, although their practices share commonalities more with Pennsylvania Dutch pow-wow magic, rather than with the practices in West Africa. In its home of Africa, Hoodoo (Hudu) is a well respected tradition, which is typically passed through old family priestly lines. Today, in America, traditional folk knowledge is passed from person to person; and there is no evidence of a structured hierarchy.

The goal of hoodoo is to allow people access to supernatural forces to improve their daily lives by gaining power in many areas of life, including gambling, love, divination, cursing one's enemies, treatment of disease, employment, and necromancy. As in many other folk religious, magical, and medical practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions, and bodily fluids, especially menstrual blood, urine and semen. Contact with ancestors or other spirits of the dead is an important practice within the conjure tradition, and the recitation of Psalms from the Bible is also considered magically effective in hoodoo. Due to hoodoo's great emphasis on an individual's magical power, its basic principles of working are easily adapted for use based on one's desires, inclination and habits.

Answer 2

Hoodoo is the ancient art of martial harnessed by Rayu the street fighter the art Hoodoo combined with kin will grant yo Hoodoo-kin a un stop-able force.

Answer 3

Hoodoo is an americanized form of the religious practices of those who follow Vodoun. Hoodoo exists mainly in New Orleans and is a corrupted version of Petro Vodoun, which comes from Haiti.

Answer 4

It';s the hoodoo of voodoo that you do so well!

Voodoo is the religion
Hoodoo is the magic

a voudoun is a priest/preistess (verbage)
a houdoun is the magic maker (action)

Answer 5

I can tell you one thing: Never watch movies to learn. Look up a local Mambo or Hougan and sit down and have a talk with them. They'll, most likely, be more than happy to tell you all about their religion.

Answer 6

Found a page that will tell you everything about it!
http://www.mamiwata.com/hoodoo.html#hoodoo

Have fun and use all magick wisely. Dont want Karma on your but in the bad luck form.

Answer 7

Have you seen The Skeleton Key? It's African American magic that I believe was used mainly by the slaves. Not sure how much, if at all, it is practiced today.

Answer 8

Excellent answers above! I can't really add any personal input, but if you want to know more this website is excellent:
http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

Answer 9

its all the people in america that think their opinoin can change a fact because they dont know any

and practice of studing all the reasons people dont believe in voodoo because they cant do it

Answer 10

Watch the skeleton key they have mini explanations and they are clear..