Hot Dayum! I did it again!
*insert Britney Spears "oops I did it again" here*
I, for the 3rd time, had the privilege to attend and photograph the Annual Hoodoo Heritage Festival Workshop weekend put on by the
Missionary Independent Spiritualist Church. To my delight, a
small handful of my pictures made it into this months Newsletter... YAY!
I say a small handful because there were close to 3,000 shots taken, after editing and discarding the undesirables, 1200 remained.
Obviously 1200 could not fit in this newsletter, I am tickled to pieces to see my photos used once more.
*Original Newsletter Scaled Down To Fit This Blog Post*
Lucky Mojo Curio Co. Newsletter
June 1st, 2014
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The May 3-4, 2014 Hoodoo Heritage Festival Workshop Weekend was a fabulous event! We debuted five brand new books, showed off our brand-new garden railroad, held ten spectacular workshops, and met dozens of friendly practitioners. We had visitors and guests from as far away as Florida and Sweden, and once again almost half the members of AIRR were in attendance. If you missed this year's get-together, start making your plans now to be here for next year's Hoodoo Heritage Festival!
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Thanks to our favourite documentarian, Coastside Conjure, we herewith present a full and thrilling account of what transpired at the 2014 Missionary Independent Spiritual Church Hoodoo Heritage Festival in Forestville, California. This two-day event, sponsored in part by the Lucky Mojo Curio Company and Hoodoo Psychics, brought together almost 100 practitioners of rootwork, spiritual healing, and traditional folk magic.
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Eileen Edler signing in early registrants up by the barn and the railroad layout on Saturday morning, with Ms. Melanie Gail.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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The grand opening of the East Tennessee and Western Northern California Railroad (ET&WNC) at Lucky Mojo, on the grounds of the 2014 Hoodoo Heritage Festival. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Quimbanda Opening Service, with attendees circled around ConjureMan Ali, Madame Nadia, and the House of Quimbanda. If you look closely, you will see AIRR members Deacon Millett, nagasiva yronwode, Miss Elvyra Curcuruto-Love, and Ms. Melanie in the circle.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Kast Excelsior of the House of Quimbanda bestows an herbal blessing on Elizabeth Ruth at the opening ceremony.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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catherine yronwode with a Bloomfield Courage rose plant as the first part of the Wildcrafting for Herbal Magic class.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Professor Charles Porterfield demonstrates the dehydrator in the second half of the Wildcrafting Herb class.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Madame Pamita's Luncheon Matinee Show: Playing vintage hoodoo songs and telling fortunes for selected audience members.
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Miss Phoenix LeFae with Lou Florez at the Bath and Cleansing Spells workshop presenting Aura Laforest's book Hoodoo Spiritual Baths. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Lou Florez demonstrating uncrossing bath techniques at the Bathing and Cleansing Spells workshop. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Participants sampling spiritual baths and washes made with a variety of herbs and minerals and the Bathing and Cleansing Spells workshop. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Ms. Robin at the Favourite Money Spells Panel Discussion workshop.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Ms. Melanie at the Favourite Money Spells Panel Discussion.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Kast Excelsior, Lou Florez, and Miss Elvyra at the Favourite Money Spells Panel Discussion. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Madame Nadia's Cartomantic Divination workshop, with ConjureMan Ali and Vicky Sirgo Gutierrez handing out free Psychic Vision sachet powders and decks of playing cards to be blessed.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Valentina Burton, Chas Bogan, and Greywolf Townsend blessing their playing cards at Madame Nadia's Cartomantic Divination workshop.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Dr. Johannes brought an array of rare herbs from Sweden for us to use when making our protective trollknyte bundles. Here he explains the techniques of trolldom to a group including catherine yronwode, nagasiva yronwode, Miss Phoenix, Vy Tran, and Greywolf Townsend.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Apollo Dark teaching the difference between Road Opener and Block Buster spells and introducing our new line of Block Buster products.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Congregants lighting candles at the Spiritualist Road Opener and Block Buster Service on Sunday, with Ms. Melanie and Raina del Magick.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Madame Pamita and Madame Nadia as they demonstrate their favourite hoodoo spells for bewitching glamour and sexuality footwork techniques.Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Hoodoo Food! The Best of the Conjure Cook-Off and Rootwork Recipe Round-Up was the give-away at Sunday's Catered Lunch.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Candelo Kimbisa broadcast his popular "Candelo's Corner" radio show live from the event, and he interviewed many of the presenters and participants. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Participants gather 'round as Michele Jackson teaches her
Contemporary Bone Reading class. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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Miss Michaele and Prof. Porterfield teach how to pray from
The Holy Bible using the Psalms. Photo by Coastside Conjure
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This Nkisi Ndoki was displayed as a prototype of a physical guardian spirit at ConjureMan Ali's Defending Against the Dark Arts Workshop.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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ConjureMan Ali teaches How to Make a Physical Guardian Spirit during his workshop, Defending Against the Dark Arts.
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Reader's Tent
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In between workshops, Hoodoo Psychics sponsored a tent where card reading, palmistry, crystal gazing and other forms of divination and fortune-telling were offered to the public.
Photo by Coastside Conjure.
Deacon Millett was the Reading Wrangler; here he is shown with tarot reader Miss Elvyra. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
When the Reader's Tent was filled, overflow palmistry readings were conducted up at the railroad benches by cat yronwode.
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The Empty Chair in the Reader's Tent honouring Dr. E. of AIRR,
who passed in January 2014.
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The Empty Chair honouring AIRR member Rukiah Shamon,
who passed in January 2014. Photo by Coastside Conjure.
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SUNDAY, June 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2014:
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The Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour, brought to you every week by catherine yronwode of luckymojo.com and ConjureMan Ali of conjuremanali.com, is a live call-in show, where we will read your fortune on the air and prescribe down-home, old-school conjure and rootwork remedies!
Show Time:
* 3:00 PM Sunday, Pacific Time
* 4:00 PM Sunday, Mountain Time
* 5:00 PM Sunday, Central Time
* 6:00 PM Sunday, Eastern Time
To get a FREE reading and rootwork advice, you must pre-register at the Lucky Mojo Forum, then call in by telephone during that week's LIVE broadcast and press '1' to request to be on the air.
Call-In Number for pre-registered applicants or to listen to the show live by phone:
1-818-394-8535
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Time to relax, rewind, and renew! We'll be back next month with more free spells, more articles, more links, and more discount coupons you can use to purchase the finest hand-made spiritual supplies in the world.
Cordially,
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The remainder of the photos can be found at these 2 Albums:
Oh! And as an added bonus... Some of my photos taken can be found on the pages of some of the members of
AIRR and/or their Profile Photos on Facebook.
It's like Christmas to me to see stuff like that; such an incredible compliment to an amateur photographer like myself :)
AND... Their new
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Trust me,
Block Buster is flying off the shelves at the shop and they have offered a 20% off coupon this month on the whole line... You have nothing to lose, except the "blockages" holding you back!
With that said... See y'all next year!
