Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Conjure Master Class

Southern Rootwork is a living ethnobotanical, folk magic system of medicinal healing and coping through the use of herbs, roots, bones, and stones. Our course covers the gamut of how to create floor washes to wash away negativity and spiritual baths to bring luck and opportunity. We introduce you to little known secrets of conjure designed to improve your situation, whatever the situation, because Southern Rootwork is a solution-focused system of knowledge and way of life based on the ancient wisdom of our ancestors.

This master class consists of 109 lessons presented in 6 chapters. Here is a list of some of the lessons to give you an idea of what you will be learning:

• What is Hoodoo, Conjure, and Rootwork?
• Louisiana Swamp
• Putting the Root Back in Rootwork
• Hoodoo's African Origins
• Benin's Voodoo Fetish Market
• Presentation: Hoodoo, Conjure, & Rootwork
• Glossary of Terms
• Ancestor Reverence
• Zora Neal Hurston: Genius of the Harlem Rennasaince
• Who's Who in Hoodoo History: Zora Neale Hurston
• That's Livin! The Zora Neale Hurston Story
• Conjuring and Conjure Doctors
• Curin' is Part of Rootworkin'
• Good For What Ails You: Secrets of the Bayou Healers
• Herbs, Plants, & Roots A-Z
• The Doctrine of Signatures
• Presentation: The Doctrine of Signatures
• Herb Spotlight: Five Finger Grass
• Root Spotlight: Licorice Root
• Root Spotlight: Devil's Shoestring
• Edible, Magickal, Medicinal Weed Spotlight: Chickweed
• Root Spotlight: Solomon Seal Root
• Prescriptions of Rootdoctors
• Identifying Poisonous Plants
• Poisonous Plant Remedies
• Swamper Walk Assignment
• Plantation Medicine and Root Doctor Cures
• Presentation: Little John to Chew
• Plantation Medicine and Health Care in the Old South
• Slave Medicine
• Secret Religion of the Slaves
• Hoodoo Religion and American Dance Traditions
• Crossroads Conjure
• Crossing and Uncrossing
• Floor Washes

In addition to the above lessons, we go over all of the core practices and rituals, and there are chapters on The Mojo Bag and The Magickal Household. To see all the lessons for this course, follow the link below and scroll on the page to Course Curriculum. Then expand each chapter to see what you will be learning.

Whenever you sign up for a course at Crossroads University, you become a lifetime student. That means you have access to the course whenever I add new content, and you have access to the forum, Conjure Corner, as well. In addition, you have access to me! I even give you my phone number so we can text about the course content when you have questions, comments, or need clarification on a subject. Upon successful completion of the course, you receive a nifty certificate of completion that is a work of art itself and worthy of any frame and wall.

If you were a healer searching for herbs, red brick dust, and other mate­ria magica of the healing arts in New Orleans in the 1800s, you would likely find yourself frequenting the busy rush of the old French Market. A strange, novel, cosmopolitan place, it was unlike anything else on the Amer­ican continent. The odor of wild herbs and woodland leaves permeated the air. Choctaw women, the original inhabitants of the land upon which New Orleans now stands, sat cross-legged on the ground with their babies swad­dled in cradleboards. Next to them were baskets woven from river cane in diamond patterns signifying a traditional reverence for the diamondback rat­tlesnake. Peering into these ancestrally coded baskets, one could see herbs used for cooking, medicine, and magick. From these women, bundles of bay laurel and manglier could be purchased to concoct aromatic teas for the infirm, as could sassafras leaves, which, when pounded with a mortar and pestle, was transformed into gumbo filé, used by the Creoles to make the now famous New Orleans dish, gumbo.