The Art of Making Mojos: How to Craft Conjure Hands, Trick Bags, Tobies, Gree-Grees, Jomos, Jacks, and Nation Sacks

by Catherine Yronwode, Grey Townsend (Illustrator), Charles C. Dawson (Illustrator)

Within these pages you will find a treasure-trove of accurate, authentic, and easy-to-follow instructions that teach you how to craft and work with Conjure Hands, Trick Bags, Tobies, Gree-Grees, Jomos, Jacks, and Nation Sacks in the hoodoo folk magic tradition. Down-home Methods for Making Conjure Bags
How to Select Your Herbs, Roots, and Curios
Dressing and Feeding a Mojo for Any Purpose
Lucky Mojo Hands for Winning Games of Chance
Jomos for Money Drawing and Business Success
Uncrossing, Healing, and Jinx-Breaking Hands
Tobies for Attraction, Sexuality, and Love
Mojos to Rule or Control Your Associates
Bed and Mattress Packets to Bless the Home
How to Make Nation Sacks and Jack Balls

Genres: Occult

96 pages, Paperback

Published April 13, 2018

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

[Onyx · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve read books on this subject before…”Sticks, Stones, Roots, and Bones,” by Stephanie Rose Bird, and “Magic’s in the Bag,” by Jude Bradley and Cheré Dastugue Coen…and there’s one more in line that I’ve only gotten in a few pages and hope to finish…any day now…“The Magickal Art of Crafting Charm Bags,” by Elhoim Leafar. So far, the first two disappointed me in that they felt vague, as if information was missing. It was glaringly noticeable. I was so disgusted, I got to the point where I went looking around and started buying books just on how to make sachets (namely, “Sensational Sachets,” by Stephanie Valley).
Yeah I know…that’s a step backwards.
So the way it’s going, the last book I’m on promises to be the same as the other two.

Not this book.

I’ve read Catherine Yronwode’s other writings before and found them exceptional. But since I read these previous two books, I was thinking, “She’s got this amazing track record for writing incredible books, but maybe this time I might be let down…although probably not. I hope not.” And wouldn’t you know it? I was pleasantly surprised. And relieved. Yeah, she’s still got it.

The stuff I wanted to know was immediately found in the first few pages, even before I got good into the book. Also, as I got further in, I found myself saying to myself more than once, “I needed to see this…I needed to see this….” And over halfway through, I kept returning to those pages to review what I read, wanting to absorb it and not forget. The stuff left out the other books was there in this one, and I had to ask myself, “Why couldn’t these other authors say anything like that?” This author accomplished more in 96 pages than what they couldn’t do with over 250. That’s sorry.

Occam’s Razor is a thing.

This book deserves much more than five stars, but I have to be content with just that. It actually sets the standard (platinum) for books on how to make mojos. Good luck to any future authors reaching that level without copying The Mistress’s work.

[Justin Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book for the most part Catherine yet again laces the most important aspects right up front and also signed mine. There are a lot of take aways, I will for sure be running with the JOMO layouts soon. Some of the coursework related to hands are expanded on in great historic detail in this book. I do appreciate the concepts and insight here. It has helped me greatly with my craftwork.