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Live Things In You: The Infamous Curse Work of Hoodoo, Rootwork, & Southern Conjure with Professor Charles Porterfield

Fri, Aug 16

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Live Things In You: The Infamous Curse Work of Hoodoo, Rootwork, & Southern Conjure with Professor Charles Porterfield
Live Things In You: The Infamous Curse Work of Hoodoo, Rootwork, & Southern Conjure with Professor Charles Porterfield

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Aug 16, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

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For online attendance only. If you are interested in purchasing the In-Person General Admission Ticket click HERE

From snakes, spiders, scorpions, and more - to have 'Live things in you,' to be 'tricked in your skin,' is perhaps one of the most controversial, fascinating, and dreaded of curses found within the hoodoo tradition. 

Join Professor Porterfield as he guides us in a discussion about this classic and malefic work. Including perspectives not only magical, but also physiological, psychological, historic, and practical. This class is sure to get under your skin.

About the Presenter:

Professor Charles Porterfield (he/him) is an old-fashioned, no-nonsense, Old Testament reader and rootworker. He is the co-author of Hoodoo Bible Magic: Sacred Secrets of Scriptural Sorcery, and author of A Deck of Spells: Hoodoo Playing Card Magic in Rootwork and Conjure and The Sporting Life: How to Help Yourself with Hoodoo from the Streets to the Sheets.…

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