Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course

by Catherine Yronwode

Genres: Folklore, Witchcraft, Divination

435 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Catherine "Cat" Yronwode (b. 1947) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and teacher. A practitioner of herbalism and traditional magic, she is a founding member of the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers. She has had an extensive career in the comic book industry, and coauthored Women and the Comics (1985), the first book on women in comics. Born and raised in California, Yronwode attended Illinois' Shimer College in the 1960s, through the school's unique early entrance program.

Reviews

[Claudia Loureiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course by Catherine Yronwode is just a wonderful book!
From the author: "Dear friends and customers,

As many of you know, about 1,000 of my web pages about hoodoo are online for free reading at "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice" and "Hoodoo and Blues Lyrics," as part of the Lucky Mojo web site.

I have written and edited a series of books on the subject, including "Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic," "The Art of Hoodoo Candle Magic," "Paper In My Shoe," and "The Black Folder: Personal Communications in the Mastery of Hoodoo." These books and web pages have met with considerable acceptance in the magical community.

At the beginning of the year 2003, i decided to focus my teaching duties in a specifically focussed way -- as a series of 52 weekly lessons. By January 2014, a total of 1,900 students had enrolled in the one-year Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course and we have formed an active and permanent Yahoo groups elist forum for discussion of the material.

Nothing written for this Correspondence Course will be placed online at the Lucky Mojo web site; it's a private class, sent only to people who want to study the matter in greater depth than through the web site or my public books. Both theoretical and practical matters are covered, including free magic spells, herbal information, tips on how to work with the tools of conjure, chit-chat about what it's like to be a root doctor working for clients, and a lot of inside information that is not available through my other venues."

Index

Dedication and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Important Notice

Lesson 1 Gifted for the Work
Lesson 2 Three-Ingredient Baths, Scrubs, and Floor Washes
Lesson 3 Family Traditions, Herbal Baths, Commercially Prepared Baths
Lesson 4 Soap, Water, Tub, Prayer, and Candles for the Bath
Lesson 5 Tuning and Directionality for Baths and Spell Work
Lesson 6 Prescribing Baths, Bath Formulas, Trial Baths (and Homework #1)
Lesson 7 Wahoo Bath, Finishing the Bath Rite, Disposal of Bath Water
Lesson 8 Sprinkling or Spraying a Client 65
Lesson 9 Hands-On Work, Dressing the Head, Egg Rite, Foot Washing, Rub-Down
Lesson 10 Recipes for Salves, Ointments, Rubbing Oils, and Liniments
Lesson 11 Medical Herbs in Hoodoo: Tonics, Tinctures, and Teas
Lesson 12 Popular Types of Incense and How to Bum Them
Lesson 13 Compounding Incense, Atypical Incenses, Smoking a Client (and Homework #2)
Lesson 14 Sachet Powders: How to Make and Use Them
Lesson 15 Anointing and Dressing Oils: How to Make and Use Them
Lesson 16 Setting Lights: Creating and Furnishing Your Own Altars
Lesson 17 Traditional Storefront Altars for Clients
Lesson 18 Lodestone Magic Part 1: Types of Lodestones, How to Match Lodestones
Lesson 19 Lodestone Magic Part 2: Mojo Hands Made With Lodestones (and Homework #3)
Lesson 20 Lodestone Magic Part 3: Care of Lodestones, Lodestone Money Spells
Lesson 21 Lodestone Magic Part 4: Lodestone Love Spells
Lesson 22 Sweetening Spells: Sugar and Honey
Lesson 23 Working With the Spirits Part 1: Religion
Lesson 24 Working With the Spirits Part 2: Ancestors and the Dead
Lesson 25 Working With the Spirits Part 3: The Graveyard
Lesson 26 Graveyard Spells Part 1: Buried Spells (and Homework #4)
Lesson 27 Graveyard Spells Part 2: Spells That Use Graveyard Dirt as an Ingredient
Lesson 28 Old Southern Graveyard Spells Part 1: Protection and Legal Work
Lesson 29 Old Southern Graveyard Spells Part 2: Love, Moving, and Killing Work
Lesson 30 Sneaky Tricks: How to Conceal Your Conjure Work
Lesson 31 Papers and Petitions Part 1: History of Inscribed Amulets and Petitions
Lesson 32 Papers and Petitions Part 2: Tools and Techniques (and Homework #5)
Lesson 33 Papers and Petitions Part 3: Sample Written Spells and Petitions
Lesson 34 The Ethics of Conjure Part 1: Frequently Asked Questions About Conjure Work
Lesson 35 Hie Ethics of Conjure Part 2: More Client Questions about Conjure Work
Lesson 36 Problem Clients Part 1: Treating the Mentally and Physically 111
Lesson 37 Problem Clients Part 2: Sliategies for Dealing With Troubled People
Lesson 38 Love Spells Part 1: How a Worker Categorizes Love Spell Clients
Lesson 39 Love Spells Part 2: My Favourite Love Spells (and Homework #6)
Lesson 40 Money Spells: A Reference Guide to Business, Financial, and Gambling Work
Lesson 41 Protection Spells from Many Sources
Lesson 42 Reversing and Revenge Spells
Lesson 43 Moving Candle Spells
Lesson 44 Scripture and the Psalms in Hoodoo
Lesson 45 Foot Track Magic (and Homework #7)
Lesson 46 Contained Spells: Bottle, Egg, Mojo Hand, Gris Gris
Lesson 47 Working with Dolls
Lesson 48 Dream Work and Hag-Riding
Lesson 49 Divination
Lesson 50 Cold Reading
Lesson 51 Live Things in You
Lesson 52 The Transactional Nature of Rootwork (and Homework #8)

Lesson Plan

[Justin Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great course put together that covers all the historical, etymological, cross referenced research passed along and taught from the perspective of Catherine Yronwode. I found out a lot about myself and how society at large has adapted aspects of Hoodoo into its structure. You will begin to appreciate the friendships and research that you will have gathered over the time of taking this course. Some aspects related to family I uncovered in my research has compelled me to get into further contact and generational awareness of what is possible.

My view on religion, how it was adapted to hoodoo, points of how it’s currently accepted and a full appreciation for the ones that have taken on this path, humbling to say the least. Folks went through a lot of hardship and developed full systems to keep this magickal modality alive. One thing is for sure the resolve and legacy of this heritage is not going anywhere so long as there is great content out here such as this course that preserves folks knowledge.

The book, although not long, appeared to take longer than I estimated. This is one of the course books that I know years to come from now, I will remember the exact moments I reached milestones in my page notes 📝 with all the great points of interest. My only reservation is that the course-book was not done with a digital version. I think that would make it more accessible to a wider audience.