The 48 Laws of Hoodoo

The 48 Laws of Hoodoo: The Spirit, The Root, The Power is a groundbreaking cultural, spiritual, and historical text that reclaims Hoodoo as a living tradition rooted in the Black American experience. More than a spellbook, this volume is a declaration: that Hoodoo is not just what you do, it is who you are. It is ministry. It is medicine. It is memory carried in the body, buried in the soil, and passed through bloodline, breath, and burden.
 
Drawing from thousands of oral testimonies recorded in Harry M. Hyatt’s seminal Hoodoo—Conjuration—Witchcraft—Rootwork volumes, the sacred knowledge of Conjuring Culture by Theophus Smith, the practical power of Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic, and the unspoken rituals remembered by midwives, gravediggers, deacons, treaters, mothers of the church, and conjure women from the Mid-South, this work reweaves traditional Black folk wisdom into 48 spiritual laws designed to teach, guide, and preserve.
 
Each law is presented as a full-length chapter: academically rigorous, spiritually anchored, and richly poetic. The laws do not just instruct, they initiate. From ancestral veneration to Bible conjure, from elemental rites to spiritual hygiene, from matrilineal transmission to ethical spellwork, these laws are not rules, they are Truths forged in resistance and fire.
 
Whether you are a seasoned rootworker, a spiritual scholar, or a seeker of ancestral knowledge, this book serves as both grimoire and gospel. It honors the elders who carried the flame and calls a new generation to walk as living altars vessels of sacred power, walking law, and ancestral fire.
 
This is not a trend. This is tradition. This is not folklore. This is foundation. This is Hoodoo as it was, as it is, as it must remain.