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A Hoodoo practitioner's powerful collection of saints and strategies for BIPOC/AAPI people and their allies to fight against systemic racism. By working magick with the 12 Hoodoo saints in this book, we learn how to create a more balanced society that supports and honors all BIPOC and AAPI folks. Using the tools in book, readers will explore everyday ways to tell the world, 'I matter, and I refuse to be silenced.' Conjuring the Calabash author Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani introduces these revolutionary warriors and explains why their energy is necessary right now. She even teaches how to canonize our own elevated ancestor or spiritual icon. Hoodoo is conjure; it is rootwork; it is Black folks' spiritual hygiene and a weapon for social change. Hoodoo is a way of communicating with the universal spirits; it is a channeling of powerful and beloved figures. This book shares inspiring stories, shows how to incorporate those saints into daily spell work, and expands any practitioner's repertoire through rituals, dice divination, altar work, and more.

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""Bomani, with her trademark love, directness, expertise, and wit, creates a guidebook for those of the diaspora wanting to utilize ancestral magic to navigate hostilities while protecting and soothing themselves."" --Eden Royce, award-winning author of Root Magic ""Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors can bring you safety, wisdom, and blessed assurance."" --Sherry 'That Hoodoo Lady' Shone, author of Hoodoo for Everyone ""After reading Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints, my heart is full, and the fire within me has been reignited."" --Mecca, astrologer and author, MyLifeCreated.com ""I am completely blown away by the fortitude, honesty, and beauty within Mawiyah."" --Granddaughter Crow, (Dr. Joy Gray), author of Wisdom of the Natural World ""Bold, brilliant, and deeply transformative. This book is not only exquisitely written...but it is also a book of profound necessity."" --Elyse Welles, author of Sacred Wild ""These pages contain tools to help you discover how to transform your pain into power, your rage into resilience, and your silence into change."" --Elhoim Leafar, author of Manifestation Magic and Dream Witchery ""Mawiyah unapologetically provides a blueprint for combating white supremacy, racism, and systemic oppression."" --Aly Kravetz, aka BronxWitch, founder and CEO of BronxWitch HeadQuarters ""An incredibly well-researched history of rarely known Hoodoo practitioners mixed seamlessly with accessible rituals for liberation."" --Marcelitte Failla Hendred, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University ""[This book] opened my eyes to the abundant ways in which Hoodoo is not only deeply intertwined with my spiritual DNA, but is in fact the power that fuels it."" --Christena Cleveland, PhD, author of God Is a Black Woman ""A powerful reclamation of spiritual sovereignty, transforming the very tools once used to oppress us into instruments of liberation, healing, and protection."" --Abiola Abrams, author of African Goddess Initiation and creatrix of the Faces of Oshun Oracle deck ""A map to the source of power colonization has tried to hide from us...It's a portal to untapped power for those of us expanding our awareness of ancestral magick."" --Dr. Sarah L. Webb, founder of Colorism Healing ""Bomani is such a brilliant, powerful source, resource, and thought leader in our tradition...She has an incredible way of disseminating very complex spiritual technology into accessible tools."" --Jo-Ná A. Williams, Esq. ""[This book] encourages us to do what [our ancestors] did during hard times: stand up against those that look to oppress us."" --Anibal ""AB"" Rodriguez, content creator, AB's Witch Journal ""Bomani's work beautifully tells the stories of our collective high ancestors who were the embodiments of revolution, freedom fighting, and endless resolve."" --Angèle Pressley, owner of Hoodoo Hussy Conjure Enterprises ""This thought-provoking book is unlike any other I have read in recent years."" --Chris Onareo, Olórìṣà, osychic medium and host of the We're Booked! podcast ""A powerful testament to the resilience, brilliance, and sacred defiance of Black spiritual traditions."" --Omisade Burney-Scott, founder/chief menopause steward, Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast ""A book that is simultaneously full of love, rich with hope, and unapologetically fierce as it provides the information we need to prepare, protect, and find our strength."" --Rhonda Alin, founder of Black Women of Magick and Conjure ""Bomani ignites the fires of Hoodoo in an inimitable way. This book defies time. Bomani takes readers behind the multidimensions of historical curtains to reveal the potential for empowerment, through magick that Hoodoo has always possessed."" --Stephanie Rose Bird, author of 365 Days of Hoodoo ""A fierce and necessary volume that honors Black resistance and the power of conjure as a form of spiritual survival and political defiance. Bomani doesn't just write about resistance--she embodies it."" --Denise Alvarado, author of the Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire

""Bomani, with her trademark love, directness, expertise, and wit, creates a guidebook for those of the diaspora wanting to utilize ancestral magic to navigate hostilities while protecting and soothing themselves."" --Eden Royce, award-winning author of Root Magic ""Mawiyah sits you down for a lovely cooked meal. Before you, each chapter is the recipes, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions before you both dine in silent reflection and reverence. You ingest the well-prepared facts (metrics, percentages, survey results) to show you the receipts of her conjure workings. After you are full, then she sends you home with takeaway boxes of powerful rituals and exercises."" --Sherry 'That Hoodoo Lady' Shone, author of Hoodoo for Everyone ""After reading Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints, my heart is full, and the fire within me has been reignited. May the sacred, age-old wisdom that Mawiyah offers in this book nourish and strengthen you as it did for me, just as it did for those who came before us."" --Mecca, astrologer and author, MyLifeCreated.com ""I am completely blown away by the fortitude, honesty, and beauty within Mawiyah...She speaks of history and our path forward. She introduces us to Hoodoo Saints and uncovers the ones being hidden in plain sight. I see the spirit of our ancestors within her writing...[This book] will lead to deeper understanding of the human spirit of the BIPOC AA/PI, and how we continue to rise."" --Granddaughter Crow, (Dr. Joy Gray), author of Wisdom of the Natural World ""Bold, brilliant, and deeply transformative. This book is not only exquisitely written, weaving together history and storytelling with powerful honesty and depth, but it is also a book of profound necessity...This work stands as both a shield and a torch: illuminating the resilience, power, and sacred traditions that have long been buried or erased."" --Elyse Welles, author of Sacred Wild ""Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors unlocks the potent magic of twelve revolutionary saints, real spiritual warriors who stand with BIPOC and AAPI souls against the crushing weight of systemic racism. This book is more than rituals; it's a lifeline, a legacy, a promise...These pages contain tools to help you discover how to transform your pain into power, your rage into resilience, and your silence into change."" --Elhoim Leafar, author of Manifestation Magic and Dream Witchery ""There is no more appropriate time in US history than now for Mawiyah Bomani to arm us with the words and weapons that are so carefully laid out in Hoodoo Saints and Root Warriors. Mawiyah unapologetically provides a blueprint for combating white supremacy, racism, and systemic oppression...She provides clear and explicit instructions on how to channel the warriors, saints, and 'hell-raisers' that we need."" --Aly Kravetz, AKA BronxWitch, Founder and CEO of BronxWitch HeadQuarters and BetterWitch Coaching ""An incredibly well-researched history of rarely known Hoodoo practitioners mixed seamlessly with accessible rituals for liberation...This book is essential for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking spiritual tools for justice."" --Marcelitte Failla Hendred, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University ""A wonderful and wise primer on Hoodoo...[This book] opened my eyes to the abundant ways in which Hoodoo is not only deeply intertwined with my spiritual DNA, but is in fact the power that fuels it. But even if you're new to Hoodoo and/or Black spirituality, this gorgeous book is an insightful and accessible guidebook."" --Christena Cleveland, PhD, weaver of Black liberation and the Divine Feminine and author of God Is a Black Woman

Author Information

Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani is an award-winning writer, educator, and spirit woman. Mawiyah is an eighth-generation Witch, Egun Medium, and Priestess of OYA in the Yoruba system of spirituality. She is also editor in chief of the culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality e-zine, Oya N'Soro. Mawiyah is the host of FishHeadsinRedGravy, a podcast dedicated to celebrating marginalized people of the esoteric/occult world. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, and Catch the Fire. She has written several plays, including Spring Chickens, which won her the Southern Black Theatre Festival's 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year Award. She is also the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award winner and a KAT Artist Residency recipient. Mawiyah currently lives, writes, and conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, house cleansings, and divinations in both northern and southern Louisiana. Visit her at www.MawiyahKaiELJamahBomani.com.

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