Nyan Tolo

Connecting and aligning with the Womanist vibration.

[ciorsdan]

[mizar113]

[lavenderlundi]

Good evening y’all!

What a day to remember to RESPECT INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS AND PRACTICES!🥰💖

[lipstick-n-hoodoo]

[laughinggoddessapothecary]

That exquisite moment during the creation of Oberon's Breath when the Tupelo honey first touches the freshly harvested pear blossoms and the bottle fills with intoxicatingly scented condensation. 🌙🌙🌙When genderfluid rootwork happens Yeye Nature always seals it with a kiss🌙🌞💋

[justiceayo]

A Working Bibliography of Books On Rootwork/Conjure/Hoodoo That Are Actually Authored by Black Folk

 “Wherever there are Africans, or people of African descent, there is magic.”- Faith Mitchell

 My calling to rootwork is ancestral. However, I unfortunately I have yet to encounter elders in my life to apprentice under on this plane of existence.  Coming up, I didn’t know other people who identified themselves as rootworkers/hoodoos/conjurers etc. Being a scholar (among other identities), my entry point into hoodoo began with books, archives, and scholarly journals. As a result, I was able to garner a wealth of information as to what hoodoo is and isn’t, which recipes (old school hoodoos don’t cast ‘spells’) to use for what, to be able to engage in an intangible mentorship with the elders that came before me. All of these things have informed how I move through the world and grow stronger in my practice.

    As a result of a White spiritual hijacking of African Traditional Religions and Africana Magico-Spiritual practices (i.e. hoodoo), the vast majority of the information about hoodoo on and offline has been authored by white people, so much so that they have become the face of hoodoo (similar to white women and yoga). 

    For those of us who are looking to grow and learn from other Black practitioners, here is a working list of books. This list consists solely of non-fiction texts, however, there is a lot to learn from novels as well, perhaps I’ll create a part two some other time. 

Please hit me up if I am missing anything or if you have a personal connection with these texts, I’d love to be in conversation. 

Many of these mentioned texts can be found online for Free.99. 

Also, sorry this is a long ass post. 

My Personal Favorites:

   1. Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms & Practical Rituals - Luisah Teish

 2.  Of Mules & Men- Zora Neale Hurston

3. Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing

4. Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System- Katrina Hazzard-Donald

5. Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition- Yvonne P. Chireau

6. Secret Doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans by Wonda L. Fontenot ( I think this one might be out of print but much of it can be found online via Google Books) 

Honorable Mention: Tell My Horse- Zora Neale Hurston

 Ok, so this is one of my absolute favorite texts though it doesnt discuss American hoodoo. It focuses on Haitian Voodoo and Jamaican Obeah. However, there is a lot that can be learned from this text and how African magico-spiritual practices are indeed “scientific” as opposed to mere superstition. 

Additional texts that I haven’t gotten to reading yet or are simply not in my favorites (no shade, no tea):

7. Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies - Faith Mitchell

8. 365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo and Conjuration- Stephanie Rose Bird

9. Sticks, Stones, Roots & Bones: Hoodoo, Mojo and Conjuring with Herbs- Stephanie Rose Bird

10. A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for Body and Spirit - Stephanie Rose Bird

11. African American Folk Healing- Stephanie Mitchem

12. Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life (Religion, Health, and Healing) - Stephanie Mitchem ED. 

13.  God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island, Georgia - Cornelia Walker Bailey

14. Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success- Tayannah Lee McQuillar

15. Voodoo & Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners- Jim Haskins

[weavemama]

I FEEL LIKE EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS 

[antivaxxer]

You know she was Tired™ and ready to spill Tea™ with that first sentence

[jonas-la]

The new sisterhood chant honestly

[ithelpstodream]

[witches-ofcolor]

I really think white autistics are freaking coddled. I was honestly just thinking about how they can display behaviors and expect a slap on the wrist no matter how badly they act, yet black kids on the spectrum have to act like literal saints.

And honestly i think most bad, rude behavior by white autistics is just being enabled and never corrected. Yall will treat people like shit and be racist, and expect to be coddled cus yall have autism. Yet black folks on the spectrum can’t even whine.

[witches-ofcolor]

Also just clarifying my point because @bunnygalaxies is really trying to speak over the experiences of what black people have felt.

No, I don’t see anything wrong with what I said, because it’s true? Because white autistics have hyper fixated on racism and expect no consequences because black people have come to this post and shared their experiences and suddenly you know enough to tell them that their lived experiences and wrong and incorrect?

Do you not see anything wrong with you speaking over people who’s experiences you haven’t shared? You’re invalidating points made by black people because you’ve been offended.

And don’t call me girl. I don’t know you like that and we’re not friends.

Please stay in your lane. the fact that you’re upset with this is really telling.

[taankhsrealhoodoo]

My folks made plain old pine tea, but this looks good…

Fermented Pine needle tea that tastes better than Sprite (imo). Has the flavor of tangerines and more carbonation than most sodas. I made this so much last year and enjoyed it a lot, but then took a long break and now I started making it again. It’s so good and refreshing with a high vitamin C content and beneficial bacteria! Recipe: First, use loppers to cut off a pine tree branch. Use both the needles and the branches (break them apart to expose the inner bark which has more vitamin C content). (Edit: Last year I used about a cup or two of pine needles and bark from smaller branches for one gallon.) Separate into three groups. Simmer first group in 4-5 cups water for 20 minutes. Strain into a gallon glass jar. Next, bring 4-5 cups of water to a boil, remove from stove and add 2nd group of needles & bark. Allow to steep 20 minutes, strain, then add to the gallon jar. Add 1 cup organic sugar, stir. Add one bottle of Kombucha organic & raw (original or gingerade) when warm (not hot). Finally, add third group of needles & bark. The reason to add more pine needles and bark is that they contain wild yeasts and heat destroys them. Fill rest of the jar with water and cover with a cloth and use rubber band to hold in place (note: don’t use tap water). Allow to ferment for 5-7 days (I like to give it a stir at least once a day); Strain and pour into 7 or 8 empty Kombucha bottles (or other tough bottles); add 1 tsp of organic sugar per bottle, close cap tightly and allow to sit for 5 days at room temperature, then refrigerate. To get good carbonation fill as close to the top as possible and make sure the lid is tight. That teaspoon of sugar is what helps too. If you don’t want to make a soda, another way is to add juice from one lemon in a quart size jar along with the tea made from pine needles and inner bark; and about 1/8 tsp of the monk fruit powder or sweetener of choice. The inner bark of the pine tree (or branches), have an amazing source of both vitamin C and antioxidants. What’s really amazing to me is that it has been found to heal the damage to blood vessels that the diabetic condition has created. This drink tastes more like lemonade. Note: Only use true pine in the genus Pinus. Some warnings are given about certain pine trees being toxic. However, “this information comes from the fact that pine can be toxic to some animals, especially cats and pregnant animals & people. Also, due to the fact that many trees (conifers) people call “pine” are not actually pines”. “Boiling the needles doesn’t turn anything into turpentine. Producing Turpentine is a long, involved process in which the pine is “tapped” nowadays and the resins are boiled down and purified into various pine products, among them turpentine…The only issue you have with boiling pine needles is that vitamin c is heat sensitive and you will break some of it.“ Edit/update (3/9/20): For the past several months I’ve only been fermenting it about 2-3 days each, mainly because I don’t have the patience to wait. It still has good carbonation. Also, I’m not simmering the pine needles anymore, but bringing the water to a boil, then adding needles & bark and covering for a couple of hours.

If you don’t want to make a soda, another way is to add juice from one lemon in a quart size jar along with the tea made from pine needles and inner bark; and about 1/8 tsp of the monk fruit powder or sweetener of choice. The inner bark of the pine tree (or branches), have an amazing source of both vitamin C and antioxidants.

Mona-Britt Folds

[psych2go]

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[moved-again22-deactivated202112]

Bullying women bodies does lead some women to get work done. Not every woman, but some.

[dopenmind]

I’m doing a thing.

[atoubaa]

AWA : la revue de la femme noire - Covers : N°10 December 1964, N°4 April 1964) 

“AWA: la revue de la femme noire was an independent magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a network of African women between 1964 and 1973. The magazine features poems, short stories, political reportage, and essays, alongside recipes, fashion, home-furnishings, and readers’ letters pages. It presents women’s lives as citizens, mothers, sisters, workers, and consumers against the global backdrop of Cold War politics, new formulations of Afro-modernity, and demands for women’s rights.“ more

[moved-again22-deactivated202112]

Bullying women bodies does lead some women to get work done. Not every woman, but some.

[lipstick-n-hoodoo]

Heavy on the T!

[lipstick-n-hoodoo]

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