Witch! The Role of the Malefic Worker in Hoodoo & Southern Conjure with Professor Charles Porterfield
Fri, Aug 16
|Online Event
Part of the Summer Agora


Time & Location
Aug 16, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Online Event
About the event
For online attendance only. If you are interested in purchasing the In-Person General Admission Ticket click HERE
A name, a title, a curse oft hurled at others in fear, aimed to destroy, disempower, and subjugate. It has meant many things to many people: scorn and scandal, empowerment, and freedom. However, within the context, community, and culture of hoodoo and southern conjure it has a more precise and deliberate meaning.
Join Professor Porterfield for a spell as he dares controversy and curse to take us along back into the 'hollars and the hills' to examine what the "witch" and "witchcraft" are within hoodoo and southern conjure.
This class is a pre-curser to Professor Porterfield's Live Things In You: The Infamous Curse Work of Hoodoo, Rootwork, & Southern Conjure class at 1pm. For information & registration click HERE.
About the Presenter:
Professor Charles Porterfield is an old-fashioned, no-nonsense, Old Testament reader and…