Hoodoo (spirituality)
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hoodoo-spirituality-188-1495638
title:
Hoodoo (spirituality)
text:
Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs that were created by enslaved African Americans in the Southern United States from various traditional African spiritualities and elements of indigenous botanical knowledge. Practitioners of Hoodoo are called rootworkers, conjure doctors, conjure men or conjure women, and root doctors. Regional synonyms for Hoodoo include rootwork and conjure. As a syncretic spiritual system, it also incorporates beliefs from Islam brought over by e
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Spiritual practices, traditions and beliefs
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(spirituality)
date created:
2003-03-02T07:12:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:50:58Z
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