Who practiced Hoodoo?
Slaves from Africa, Appalachian Mountain Folks, and Native Americans, most if not all of Hoodoo practices come from these folks. Who do the Hoodoo Do? Hoodoo is a magick of the repressed and oppressed. It is in simplest terms a way to gain control over your in-slaver. This could be the slave owner, slave overseer, husband, wife, lover or any type of enemy. What is the magick used for? Everything that no one has control over in daily life, bills, money, sex, love, power, birth and death. Does Hoodoo have ethics? Well, much like the rest of the world it is more important to ask if those who practice Hoodoo have ethics. It is the individual who must make the determination as to what they will and will not do. Some workers work both sides they are called ‘two-headed’. This means they can harm or heal just depends on what you are asking. And then there are others who will only work for the good. I have only heard of one who works only the bad side and he was a scary something. In Hoodoo it