Category:Hoodoo Heritage Festival Workshop Presenters in AIRR

• The Seven Roots of Personal Power and Mastery
  • Angela Marie Horner

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for crafting a powerful seven-root mojo bag

• Dolls and Effigies in the Hoodoo and Conjure Tradition
  • Catherine Yronwode

Doll-babies, dollies, voodoo dolls, and poppets are names given to figural images intended to represent living beings upon whom a spell is to be cast or for whom spiritual work is to be performed. Doll magic is nearly universal, so understanding a brief overview of its history is a good place to start, after which you will receive instructions on how to make dolls from a wide variety of materials, how to ink them to a subject, and how to work them so that, by sympathetic magic, what you do to the doll happens to the person in question;

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for creating your own doll babies

• Hex Appeal: Spells for Crossing and Uncrossing
  • Papa Gee

Cursing or crossing someone requires talent, commitment, and a dash of hate. But is jinxing someone always a bad thing? In this dark arts workshop we will cover baneful magic, removing troublesome people from your life, crossing up your enemies, extracting revenge, and how the art of the hex is sometimes considered to be a proactive form of protection work. To balance the light and dark, Papa Gee will also cover the ways to remove hexes and how to prevent them from coming back. Together we will craft a cursing bottle to toss your enemy “down the river.”

• The History of Curses
• What is a Hex?
• Cursed People, Places, and Objects
• Binding, Banishing, or Cursing?
• Tools and Ingredients Used in Cursing
• The Ethics of Casting a Baneful Spell
• Curse Removal and Protection

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• "Hex Appeal - How to Cast Dark Spells of Revenge, Cursing, and Damnation," an illustrated book by Gregory Lee White
• Ingredients and supplies for crafting a cursing bottle

• Knot Magic: The Power to Loose and to Bind
  • Dr Jeremy Weiss

The art of tying knots dates back to prehistoric times. Magical knots are a cross-cultural phenomenon found used on every continent in the world. Magical knots can serve to bind people and things together, to marry, curse, for good luck, to ward off spirits, for prophecy, and for many other purposes. In this workshop, Dr. Jeremy will review:

• A brief History of knot magic from around the world and all eras
• How to use knots in hoodoo spells and rituals for
  • Love
  • Luck
  • Protection
  • Cursing

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for crafting a variety of knot spells

• Time is of the Essence: When to Perform Your Spell
  • Lady Muse

Proper timing is a tool to help aligning and direct your energy. It is one of the Keys that can assist in successfully executing a ritual or spell. So, Let’s explore the value of time when it is incorporated in our root-work. We will look at various moments of time and learn how to strategically connect those moments to enhance the driving force of energy that is being evoked for your specific intent. Together we will enjoy a journey in time and perform a spell that has multiple timed workings for the same intent.

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for performing a ritual of timing

• Lodestones on the Altar: Natural Magnetism
  • Clifford Low

Working with lodestones, also known as natural magnetite, is a fundamental Hoodoo practice. The ability of these mysterious stones to attract iron to itself via the power of magnetism has fascinated people around the world for millennia, and is broadly believed to help practitioners influence events at a distance. Lodestone altar settings can powerfully draw love, money, and nearly any other thing that can expressed symbolically through sympathetic magic. In this workshop you will learn how to set up and maintain both simple and complex lodestone altars for a range of objectives, and deepen your relationship with these most marvelous spirits of the earth.

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for crafting an altar to work lodestone magic

• Keeping or Changing Your Job
  • Papa Newt

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for a personalized job and career spell

• Chinese Moon Blocks and Paper Talismans
  • Reverend James

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for divining with your moon blocks and creating a Chinese paper talisman for love, money, protection, or success.

• Herbal Healing
  • Ramona Scott

So you want to be able to heal with natural herbs and roots? Let's talk about what you should know about prevention, treatments, and cures, using traditional folkloric methods of herbal medicine. I will guide you through selecting herbs, choosing methods of administration, from teas and tinctures to ointments and inhalers — and then we will make two types of blended herb teas for your use.

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

Physical Materials (via postal mail):

• Ingredients and supplies for making two different traditional herbal remedies

• Panel Discussion: Crossroads Spells Around the World
  • Mama E. — Afro-Caribbean Crossroads Traditions
  • Heidi Holton — The Devil at the Crossroads
  • Freya Rose — Hekate at the Crossroads
  • Doc Murphy — Pagan Concepts of the Crossroads
  • Ms. Robin — Hoodoo Crossroads Traditions

WHAT YOU GET:

Electronic Materials (via download):

• Access code to the webcast
• A two-page PDF of lecture notes

Conference Access (on the day of the Festival)

• Webcast workshop
• Live chat and social time
• Q & A session with the presenter

• Ingredients and supplies for performing crossroads work