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ABOUT THIS BLOG

This blog’s purpose is to act as a complement to our online store, Black Cat Curios. Here, I will be exploring in greater depth the areas of hoodoo, AKA rootwork or conjure, which the products in our store only touch on. I hope to share with you information and techniques that will help you get the most out of your purchases and further your knowledge of this practical and very effective way of working. I also hope to share other bits of information regarding folklore, superstitions, the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the like, as these areas are also of interest to me and have a tendency to overlap. It is my hope that this blog becomes a source of enrichment and entertainment for us both.

ABOUT ME, MS LAURA, THE PRACTITIONER

Family legend says that my great-grandmother had the “shine” and that she would help out people in the neighborhood with a tincture here and a tea reading there – things that she had learned from the “Black Gypsies” when she was coming up in North Carolina. It is also said that her daughter, my grandmother, frequently exhibited an uncanny ability to know the future, could take the measure of a person in moments, and would converse at length with the many animals that hung around the family homestead. Oddly enough, my mother always referred to their doings as “their funny ways” and “superstitious hogwash.” Yet, I also know that it was not beyond my mother to put a little blood in her man’s food to keep him faithful. It would seem that the familiar propensity to do what I do was there the whole time. There just wasn’t a name for it, it was just the way one did.

Growing up in Texas, I was unaware of hoodoo as a body of knowledge until, at the age of eleven, our family babysitter disclosed to me that watching other people’s kids was not what she considered her actual occupation. Turns out, she was a self-identified “hoodoo” and my first real teacher of things spiritual and conjure-related. Among other things, she taught me not to fear the spirits that would pass in front of us while we were watching TV, how to aid the sick by detecting and destroying forming death wreaths in feather pillows, and that even if one does not believe in a curse, a curse doesn’t care.

At the age of thirteen, despite my mom’s misgivings, I received as a Christmas gift my first Tarot deck. I would give little readings to anyone who would have one, and although I had not yet learned to really “read” the cards, these little consultations proved remarkably accurate. When not playing with the Tarot or attending church, I would devour books on hauntings, cryptozoology, and psychic phenomena, and would eagerly question anyone who seemed to have the remotest clue about things of a supernatural or paranormal nature. In addition, I was often bewildered by the spirit visitations of passed loved ones, dreams that would come true, and Ouija Board sessions with friends. I could see that there was more to life than what was obvious and tangible, and all of that input just made me want to know more. It was a puzzle to be solved.

Decades later, I am still learning and have come to the conclusion that I may never truly know how all of the pieces fit. I have, however, found that hoodoo/rootwork/conjure really seems to work for me. It resonates with what I am as person and my natural, practical, straightforward style of working. Perhaps it resonates with you as well. In any case, WELCOME.

Love, peace, and chicken feet,

Ms Laura

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