TW: Mention of animal parts, animal abuse, potential ED/wishing that onto someone, urine, appropriation, destruction of land via littering.
Rating: 1/10, Someone I know found this book and asked me my thoughts, here they are. I wouldn’t recommend the sheer appropriation of Hoodoo involved. This was a weird book, and I’ve read a lot of books. It starts off fine, maybe a little suspicious and then just…nosedives.
Pros: The basic correspondence information is spot on for moon cycles, colors, candles, tools, altar set up, etc. There’s about…four spells or so listed that I found actually useful, a Job Preserving Oil, a Hire Me spell, and an enemy pacifying spell specifically. She does say at first that white and black magic don’t exist but then continues to use the two terms?? That confused me.
Cons: No Bibliography, NONE. There’s a lot of spells that have horrible attachments, like love and obsession spells, and then just…spells that seem gross. Such as a spell to make someone gain weight to “feel bad about themselves”. If that wasn’t enough she has included quite a lot of Hoodoo work, such as a direct Domination Oil (who’s recipe matches what a friend of mine, who practices Hoodoo does to make her own.), cow tongue bindings, sour jars, and a lot more. Plus she advocates for burying or throwing all the spell leftovers into running water, which is pollution btw. And there’s one spell that requires you to boil an egg in your urine and then feed it to some poor cat or dog. I have used urine in spellwork but feeding it to another creature seems like abuse to me. And no pollution. Please ya’ll.
Long story short: Just don't. There are ways to do jinxes, hexes, and baneful work without stealing from closed practices or |hurting poor animals by giving them contaminated food.