Hoodoo Encyclopedia Volumes I-XIII (EBOOKS)
Volume I: The Root and the Flame – Foundations of Hoodoo as Indigenous Science
Category: Cosmology & Spiritual Philosophy
Description:
This volume grounds the reader in the spiritual, cosmological, and ancestral framework of Hoodoo as an Indigenous Black American system. It explores the difference between spirit and soul, the anatomy of energy, the four elements and the fifth force (Spirit), the role of the ancestors, and the twelve universal laws as understood through folk wisdom. Also included is an introduction to the "Clair Gifts" (clairvoyance, clairsentience, etc.), Hoodoo’s unique grammar of being, and how power flows through lineage, land, and language.
Volume II: Graveyard Dirt and Feathered Saints – Spirit Work, Ancestors, and the Dead
Category: Ancestral Veneration & Mediumship
Description:
Focuses on working with the dead, including collecting graveyard dirt, ancestor altars, funeral customs in Black America, spirit communication, signs from the dead, crossing rituals, and the role of mediums and seers. Includes protocols for working with “named” and “unnamed” spirits, handling restless dead, and spirit-led divination.
Volume III: The Hand and the Candle – Fire, Light, and the Art of Spellcasting
Category: Candle Magic & Fire Conjure
Description:
Delves into the language of candles, flame reading, wax interpretation, and fixed candle work. Includes fire baptisms, pyromancy, vigil altar maintenance, and the use of matches, chimneys, and lighters in spiritual practice. Teaches how to dress, fix, load, and speak over candles for every condition.
Volume IV: The Jar, the Bottle, the Box – Containments, Bindings, and Spell Vessels
Category: Containment & Spell Containers
Description:
Dedicated to the mechanics of containment in Hoodoo: honey jars, souring jars, bottle spells, freezer spells, burial boxes, and trick bags. Covers spirit traps, bindings, love-draw bottles, and ancestral message bottles. Explores how the material world becomes a spirit house.
Volume V: Foot Tracks and Crossing Dust – Cursing, Justice, and Spiritual Defense
Category: Spiritual Warfare & Cursing Work
Description:
Teaches defensive and offensive conjure. Includes hot foot powder, crossing work, laying tricks in someone’s path, using war water, mirror boxes, rust magic, and how to spiritually "return to sender." Includes reversal work, spiritual armor, and historical rootworker cases of justice conjure.
Volume VI: Sweetening, Soothing, Securing – Love, Fertility, and Family Work
Category: Attraction & Domestic Harmony
Description:
Focuses on love spells, marriage conjure, baby blessings, fertility rites, womb and phallus work, binding lovers, and reconciliation spells. Includes family healing work, peace conjure for the home, and generational restoration rituals rooted in the kitchen and bedroom.
Volume VII: Coins in the Corner – Money Drawing, Gambling, and Prosperity Conjure
Category: Financial Work & Luck Magic
Description:
All things money: gambling conjure, fast luck oils, job-getting candles, road-opening rituals, customer drawing, business anointing, and ancestor-led financial wisdom. Includes money altar creation, folk spells with coins, dirt from banks, and numerology of wealth.
Volume VIII: The Herb and the Root – Hoodoo Materia Medica
Category: Herbalism & Root Knowledge
Description:
A working rootworker’s herbal and mineral encyclopedia. Organizes materia medica by condition and planetary correspondence. Includes the doctrine of signatures, plant spirits, conjure uses of kitchen herbs, and harvesting rites. Also includes bones, shells, minerals, and railroad dust.
Volume IX: Signs, Omens, and Bone Talk – Divination Systems of the Old South
Category: Divination & Folk Prophecy
Description:
Explores the divinatory systems used in Hoodoo: throwing bones, playing card divination, Bible-based prophecy, smoke and wax reading, dream interpretation, pendulums, mirror gazing, and cowrie shell reading. Also includes signs from nature, dreams of the ancestors, and how to develop “second sight.”
Volume X: Water Walkers and Wind Talkers – Elemental Rites and Nature Spirits
Category: Elemental Conjure & Spirit Ecology
Description:
Covers the sacred relationship with the elements as conscious spirits. Includes river rites, air offerings, mud baths, spirit baths, storm conjure, tree work, grave-soil magic, and smoke as prayer. Rooted in animism, Black ecospirituality, and land-based mysticism.
Volume XI: Saints, Spirits, and Syncretism – Working with Deities, Folk Saints, and Cultural Guardians
Category: Spiritual Pantheon & Syncretic Work
Description:
Focuses on the saints, folk spirits, and deified ancestors within Hoodoo tradition—Black Hawk, High John, Aunt Caroline Dye, St. Martha, etc. Includes altars, novenas, prayers, and spirit contracts. Touches on the historical and spiritual ethics of blending Catholicism, Native American spirits, and Black Christian mysticism.
Volume XII: The Worker's Bible – Psalms, Prayers, and the Spoken Word in Hoodoo
Category: Scriptural Magic & Word Power
Description:
A study of the power of spoken word, psalmic conjure, and oral incantation. Includes Bible verses for every condition, the art of scripting, spoken blessings and curses, and sermon-style rootwork. Rooted in the power of Black Southern preaching, poetic hexing, and Bible-based sorcery.
Volume XIII: The Spirit of the Work – Ethics, Initiation, and Becoming a Rootworker
Category: Initiation, Lineage, and Ethics
Description:
The final volume addresses what it means to carry the title of Rootworker, Healer, or Conjure Doctor. Covers ethics, spiritual maintenance, mentorship, secrecy, and dealing with clients. Includes rituals for initiation, keeping the ancestors’ names alive, and writing one’s own Book of Power.