Book Discussion Mama Marie’s Hoodoo Bible

[CCCT]

I read this book after reading many of the other available books on Hoodoo by authors Catherine Yronwode and Professor Porterfield and the like and there are some passages that are taken whole cloth from Ms. Yronwode’s books. To me this reads like an AI copy and paste job but none of my magic friends who are into Hoodoo have read it so I’ve had no one to talk to about it.
Thoughts?

 

[MorganBlack]

I've not read it , so I grabbed a copy just to see what's up.

Just first impressions, but holy shitballs, I can't decode any of this posturing (below), but it seems like a setup to start sandbagging Hoodoo/ Conjure and make it a closed practice. I do feel we must respect the people who came before us but Hoodoo is not just African American. It's also European, and indigenous, and Latino... John the Conqueror Root is native to Mexico and parts of Central America.

I may keep reading, but this does not bode well.

Hoodoo is a complex, ancient aspect of Afro-American culture, a practice that is as old as the concept of Afro-Americanism itself. In today’s hyper-connected world of social media, online streaming,and millions of internet websites discussing the core components of Afro-American culture in a bid to appeal to this extremely significant demographic, most of the core components that form the cultural phenomenon called Hoodoo have been misrepresented.

It is, therefore, critical at this time, more than ever, for budding practitioners and rootworkers, as well as anyone interested in Afro-American culture in general, to truly understand what Hoodoo is, its origins, and how this superb aspect of our culture has influenced our lives over the past decades

 

[CCCT]

I've not read it , so I grabbed a copy just to see what's up.

Just first impressions, but holy shitballs, I can't decode any of this posturing (below), but it seems like a setup to start sandbagging Hoodoo/ Conjure and make it a closed practice. I do feel we must respect the people who came before us but Hoodoo is not just African American. It's also European, and indigenous, and Latino... John the Conqueror Root is native to Mexico and parts of Central America.

I may keep reading, but this does not bode well.

Ok, Thank you! I’m glad it’s not just me. I picked up on that closed practice stuff too and was massively put off by it. The whole work seems really fragmented. If you do push on you’ll see what I mean; no consistent voice, wildly differing opinions from book to book, and, like I said originally, that likely stems from the fact that this book has removed large sections from other books on Hoodoo and used them verbatim.
When I looked for reviews, to see if I was the only one taking crazy pills, all I could find were glowing Amazon reviews and hundreds of TikTok videos proclaiming this to be the pinnacle of Hoodoo publishing. Granted, this was almost a year ago and I haven’t checked since but I was baffled.
Thanks so much for checking it out and responding. I feel less alone.