Magickal Correspondence

Bend-Over Oil

This extremely potent oil makes other people do your bidding. Use it to break any hexes and to order evil spirits to return to their sender. This oil is suitable for anointing candles and Voodoo dolls...

Attraction Love Oil

A hoodoo Attraction oil for drawing love. Blend equal parts of the following: • Rose scent, which can be one or more of these: • Essential Oil of Roses (Rose Otto) • Essential Oil of Rose Geranium • R...

Foot Track Magic

Foot track magic is one of the hallmarks of hoodoo. It involves throwing powders and such in the path of a target, who will suffer from abnormal maladies and a run of bad luck once they have walked on...

Crossing and Uncrossing

Simply put, crossing refers to spiritual works that cause harm or bad luck, while uncrossing refers to works that reverse it. There are a number of products sold that are used to aid in putting an end...

Voodoo is a Religion

Voodoo is a religion, while hoodoo is a magickal system. The word voodoo means the “spirit of God.” Voodoo believers accept the existence of one god, below which are the powerful spirits often referre...

New Orleans Voodoo

New Orleans Voodoo is known for several unique characteristics, such as Voodoo dolls, gris gris, and zombies. The use of Voodoo dolls in New Orleans reportedly peaked during the reign of the infamous ...

New Orleans Voodoo

also known as Creole Voodoo, originated from the ancestral religions of the African Diaspora, and is one of many incarnations of African-based religions rooted in the West African Dahomean Vodou tradi...

Warlock

I left this one for last, as it is a word very rarely used in the Magickal community. This old term of insult comes from Old English waer-loga: “traitor” or “liar.” It once described a Witch who betra...

Priest/Priestess

A man or woman dedicated to the service of the Gods—often concentrating on a single manifestation or aspect (such as a Priest of Apollo, or a Priestess of Aphrodite). They may also serve a community o...

Pagan

Paganism (meaning “of the country”) is a collection of diverse spiritual paths which are rooted in or inspired by indigenous (native) and Classical (ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, etc.) traditions wo...

Witch

In Medieval Europe and Britain,“Cunning Women” were often called Wicce—an Anglo-Saxon word meaning “shaper”—from which we get our term “Witch.” This word, in turn, comes from Middle High German wicken...

Cunning Man/Woman

“Cunning” comes from the Old Norse cunna (“to know”) and the Old English kenning (“wise”). This term was applied to the resident magicians and healers of small English towns and villages ever since th...

Shaman

The spiritual leaders in traditional tribal cultures are the Shamans, or medicine men and women, who are both gifted and learned in talents and skills of divination, herbalism, hypnosis, psychic work,...

Philosopher

From the earliest beginnings in ancientGreece, Philosophers have sought to understand theunderlying principles and nature of “life, the universe, and everything.” They seek to apply wisdom,knowledge, ...

Prophet

Prophets are usually divinely inspired preachers, who often speak on behalf of the Gods and Goddesses themselves. They are great teachers, known for compelling religious visions and revelations—often ...

Necromancer

Someone who conjures up the spirits of the dead to speak with them and learn hidden knowledge and secret information, and to foretell the future. Today people who do this are usually called Mediums or...