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Collection of conjure objects including bottles, a ring-shaped gourd, a bottle of Southern Comfort, packaged herbs, liquid containers, and dried roots, arranged on a gray background. Black and white portrait of a man wearing a white shirt and a string necklace with a nutmeg tied around his neck, photographed in Mississippi between 1920 and 1940. Cover of the novel The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, featuring red and black text describing magical and spiritual arts, with publication details at the bottom. Zora Neale Hurston smiling as she plays the hountar or mama drum, in a 1937 black-and-white portrait. Black and white photo of an open box propped against a tree, containing various objects and charms associated with a hoodoo bag, part of African American folk beliefs in the southern United States. A bottle tree sculpture with blue, green, and clear glass bottles placed on metal branches stands among tall green plants in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Nkisi (Kongo power figure)
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Modern Hoodoo materials
Hoodoo water, graveyard dirt, deadmen's powder, lodestones, gourds, and roots sit...
Courtesy of Robert Hunter, Southern Hoodoo and the Dr. Peter Davis Ring Bottle" in Ceramics in America (2023) (Milwaukee, Wis.; The Chipstone Foundation)
Hoodoo necklace
A Conjure specialist wearing a nutmeg necklace, photographed by sociologist Newbell...
Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery, Newbell Niles Puckett Memorial Gift (White GR15.N498 1920).
The Occult Books of Moses
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, a grimoire (book of spells) published by De...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (11000761)
Zora Neale Hurston
In her 1931 article “Hoodoo in America,” author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston...
New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-108549)
Hoodoo bag
Collection of Hoodoo ritual objects in a box, photograph from the work of sociologist...
Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery, Newbell Niles Puckett Memorial Gift (White GR15.N498 1920).
Bottle tree
Catching spirits in Mississippi, a modern bottle tree blossoms in Ocean Springs,...
© Carmen K. Sisson—Cloudybright/Alamy
Nkisi (Kongo power figure)
Kongo male power figure (nkisi), wood and other materials, from the Democratic...
Photograph by Katie Chao. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.127)