Voodoo hoodoo is the unique variety of Creole voodoo found in New Orleans. This rich compendium includes more than 300 authentic voodoo and hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, luck, prosperity, health, and success. Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, showing how it evolved over time to include influences from Native-American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th- and 20th-century formularies along with her own magical arts. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook includes more than 100 spells for banishing, binding, fertility, luck, protection, money, and more. Alvarado introduces listeners to the pantheon of voodoo spirits, the seven African powers, and other important loas, prayers, novenas, and psalms, and much, much more:
- Oils and potions: attraction love oil, dream potion, gambler’s luck oil, blessing oil
- Hoodoo powders and gris gris: Algier’s fast luck powder, controlling powder, money drawing powder
- Talismans and candle magic
- Curses and hexes
