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Vodou, Hoodoo & African Diasporic Religions

Black Magic

Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition

by Yvonne P. Chireau

A scholarly history of African American conjure and Hoodoo showing how magic and Christianity were intertwined rather than opposed in Black religious life from slavery onward. A key academic study of rootwork.

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