The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook, Denise Alvarado
The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook, Denise Alvarado
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The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook

Author: Denise Alvarado

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Unabridged: 12 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/20/2021


Synopsis

Voodoo Hoodoo is the unique variety of Creole Voodoo found in New Orleans. This rich compendium includes more than 300 authentic Voodoo and Hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, luck, prosperity, health, and success. Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, showing how it evolved over time to include influences from Native American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th and 20th century formularies along with her own magical arts. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook includes more than 100 spells for Banishing, Binding, Fertility, Luck, Protection, Money, and more. Alvarado introduces listeners to the Pantheon of Voodoo Spirits, the Seven African Powers, and other important Loas, Prayers, Novenas, and Psalms, and much, much more: * Oils and Potions: Attraction Love Oil, Dream Potion, Gambler's Luck Oil, Blessing Oil * Hoodoo Powders and Gris Gris: Algier's Fast Luck Powder, Controlling Powder, Money Drawing Powder * Talismans and Candle Magic * Curses and Hexes

About Denise Alvarado

Denise Alvarado was born and raised in the rich Creole culture of New Orleans and has studied indigenous healing traditions from a personal and academic perspective for over four decades. She is the author of numerous books about Southern folk traditions and has had artwork featured on several television shows. A rootworker in the Louisiana folk magic tradition and a spiritual artist, she teaches southern conjure at Crossroads University. For more information, visit CreoleMoon.com.

About Adenrele Ojo

Adenrele Ojo is an experienced audiobook narrator and actor. A self-described theater brat, she spent many late nights as a young child falling asleep on theatre chairs as her dad directed and her mother performed. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Philadelphia, she received her bachelor of arts in theater from Hunter College in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Denise on June 19, 2012

Well, as the author of the book I am most biased. But I have to say I am very proud of this work as it is the among the very few that have been written about Creole Voodoo as it is experienced in New Orleans.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 18, 2015

Interesting, but I'm confused by and disappointed in the content. Alvarado's only comment on integration is that her white friend was teased viciously by black girls. (Hey, I was teased in school, and some of the girls were black. This was because I was weird.) She then uses the slur "tranny" quite......more

Goodreads review by Joree S on July 22, 2013

Great read......more

Goodreads review by Ariestess on March 31, 2019

When I picked this book up, I was kind of excited to be reading it, having found it on a whim at the library. I love the anthropological aspects of learning new spirituality systems, and this author seems to have that style of writing, so I'm stoked here! By the time I finished reading it, I actuall......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia on June 09, 2021

3.5 stars. I knew that much of voodoo meaning is hidden in Christianity because slaves had to hide their religious beliefs here but I was amazed at how much it mirrors. It makes sense though if your life is on the line, you hide it well. Although I won't be practicing any spells, it was a worthwhile......more