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| conjure: Conjure in African American Society Jeffrey E. Anderson, 2005 From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of the African American experience. What began as a mixture of African, European, and Native American influences within slave communities finds expression today in a multimillion dollar business. In Conjure in African American Society, Jeffrey E. Anderson unfolds a fascinating story as he traces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure. |
| conjure: Conjure Lea Nolan, 2012-10-08 An unexpected read: exciting, dangerous, adventurous—everything we want from a good book. —Teen Librarian Toolbox Emma Guthrie expects this summer to be like any other in the South Carolina Lowcountry—hot and steamy with plenty of beach time alongside her best friend and secret crush, Cooper Beaumont, and Emma's ever-present twin brother, Jack. But then a mysterious eighteenth-century message in a bottle surfaces, revealing a hidden pirate bounty. Lured by the adventure, the trio discovers the treasure and unwittingly unleashes an ancient Gullah curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper's soul on his approaching sixteenth birthday. But when a strange girl bent on revenge appears, demon dogs become a threat, and Jack turns into a walking skeleton; Emma has no choice but to learn hoodoo magic to undo the hex, all before the last days of summer—and her friends—are lost forever. The Hoodoo Apprentice series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 Conjure Book #2 Allure Book #3 Illusion |
| conjure: Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature James S. Mellis, 2019-07-04 From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward, African American authors have drawn on African spiritual practices as literary inspiration, and as a way to maintain a connection to Africa. This volume has collected new essays about the multiple ways African American authors have incorporated Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in their work. Among the authors covered are Frederick Douglass, Shirley Graham, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ntozake Shange, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, and Ishmael Reed. |
| conjure: Working Conjure Hoodoo Sen Moise, 2018-09-01 Working Conjure is a blessing. With the increasing commodification of African American and African Diasporic traditions, books about our practices that are simple, direct, and useful seem few and far between. Hoodoo Sen Moise manages to balance a solid delivery on the practice of Conjure with just enough theory to create a foundation to do this spiritual work—which is not, as he also reminds us, spiritual easy—and to continue the work given to us by our ancestors to heal each other and the world we share.—Mambo Chita Tann, author of Haitian Vodou Conjure, also known as Hoodoo or Rootwork, is an old and powerful system of North American folk magic. Its roots derive primarily from West and Central African spiritual traditions but it developed during the slave trade and its purpose at that time was to help ease the terrible oppression experienced by the slaves. Working Conjure explores the history, culture, principles, fundamentals, and ethics of Conjure, while simultaneously serving as a practical how-to guide for actually doing the work. Author Hoodoo Sen Moise has been a practitioner for nearly forty years. In Working Conjure, his first book, he shares the techniques and lessons that will bring Hoodoo alive to those who are new to the practice as well as useful and enlightening information for the adept. In the book he: Explores the primary materials used in Conjure Features spells, rituals, and workings for various purposes Guides readers to learn how to bring this profound school of magic to life “Conjure,” writes Hoodoo Sen Moise, “is not a religion or spiritual path, per se, but rather magic/spiritual work that is done to bring about change in a situation. Whether that situation is a relationship, money, a job, revenge, healing, or cleansing, the fundamental tenet of Conjure is to do work that changes the circumstance.” |
| conjure: Archives of Conjure Solimar Otero, 2020-03-24 In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship. |
| conjure: Conjure Women Afia Atakora, 2021-02-23 A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • NPR • Parade • Book Riot • PopMatters “Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported.”—Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife; and their master’s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “[A] haunting, promising debut . . . Through complex characters and bewitching prose, Atakora offers a stirring portrait of the power conferred between the enslaved women. This powerful tale of moral ambiguity amid inarguable injustice stands with Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An engrossing debut . . . Atakora structures a plot with plenty of satisfying twists. Life in the immediate aftermath of slavery is powerfully rendered in this impressive first novel.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) |
| conjure: Conjuring Culture Theophus Harold Smith, 1994 In Conjuring Culture, Theophus Smith provides an innovative, interdisciplinary interpretation of the formation of African-American religion and culture. Smith argues for the central role in black spirituality of conjure--a magical means of transforming reality. Smith shows that the Bible, the sacred text of Western civilization, has in fact functioned as a magical formulary or sourcebook for African-Americans. |
| conjure: Chaldean Magic Francois Lenormant, 1999-03-01 This Weiser classic reprint of the 1877 publication of Lenormant's La Magie Chez les Chaldeens is a scholarly exposition of the magical practices, religious systems and mythology of the Chaldeans of ancient Assyria. It explores the translation of a larg table from the library of the royal palace at Nineveh, containing 28 formulas of deprectory incantations against evil spirits, the effects of sorcery, disease, and the principal misfortunes that attack people in the course of daily life. |
| conjure: Conjure Delita Martin, 2021-03-31 Fine Arts Book |
| conjure: Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970 Ishmael Reed, 1972 |
| conjure: Off Whiteness Izabela Hopkins, 2023-08-18 In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the Post-Reconstruction South as represented in literary fiction. To focus her study, she discusses the writings of four prominent figures: Thomas Nelson Page, Ellen Glasgow, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, who contributed to discussions of racial and social identity during the post–Civil War South through poetry, journalism, essays, novels, and more. Off Whiteness draws from both sides of the color line—as well as from both the male and female experience—to examine the ambivalence of Southern whiteness from three particular vantage points: place, ideality, and repeatability. Hopkins develops her analysis across nine chapters divided into three parts. In her exploration of these four writers with differing backgrounds and experiences, she utilizes both their well-known and lesser-known texts to argue against the superficial oversimplification that “whiteness requires blackness to define itself.” Hopkins’s analysis not only successfully grapples with a wide range of post-structural theories; it also approaches the significance of language and religion with intention and sensitivity, thereby addressing areas that are typically ignored in whiteness studies scholarship. The interdisciplinary nature of Off Whiteness positions it as an engaging text relevant to the work and interests of scholars drawn to American and Southern history, cultural and social studies, literary studies, etymology, and critical race theory. |
| conjure: Conjure Michael Donaghy, 2011-09-23 Conjure is Michael Donaghy’s third collection, and his most accomplished to date, displaying the same trademark elegance, sleight of hand and philosophical wit that have established his reputation as a ‘poet’s poet’. But while these poems time their feints and punches as well as ever, often the poet’s guard is deliberately kept down: Conjure’s elegies and disappearing acts, love songs and tortuous journeys represent the most challenging, vulnerable and moving work Donaghy has yet written. ‘Among the finest American poets of his generation’ Robert McPhillips ‘The artistry of Donaghy’s work seems to me exemplary’ Sean O’Brien ‘The fine-tuned precision of a twelve-speed bike’ Alfred Corn |
| conjure: Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture Justin D. Edwards, Sandra Vasconcelos, 2016-01-13 Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region. |
| conjure: Race and New Religious Movements in the USA Emily Suzanne Clark, Brad Stoddard, 2019-08-08 Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement, this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more. The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a different new religious movement and features: - an introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding - two to four primary source documents about or from the movement - suggestions for further reading. |
| conjure: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare Samuel Ayscough, 1827 |
| conjure: Talking to the Dead LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, 2014-05-14 Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith—which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions—and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past. |
| conjure: Hexcraft Johnny Xoxo, 2018-11-27 Filled with plenty of hexes for just every purpose, from a general souring of ones life to causing baldness and even death. The spells within this book should only ever be used when they are justified. This is not for the frivolous practitioner who throws hexes on people for no reason. With over 100 hexes, a few protection and un-hexing recipes this book is everything you've always wanted, but were too afraid to ask about. |
| conjure: An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare Samuel Ayscough, 1827 |
| conjure: Conjure Rae Armantrout, 2020-07-26 A Pulitzer prize-winning poet “offers a glimpse into her visionary world in her stunning 16th collection. . . . [D]eeply insightful.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Like magic, these succinct poems reveal multiple realities Rae Armantrout has always taken pleasure in uncertainties and conundrums, the tricky nuances of language and feeling. In Conjure that pleasure is matched by dread; fascination meets fear as the poet considers the emergence of new life (twin granddaughters) into an increasingly toxic world: the Amazon smolders, children are caged or die crossing rivers and oceans, and weddings make convenient targets for drone strikes. These poems explore the restless border between self and non-self and ask us to look with new eyes at what we're doing. “In this volume, Armantrout addresses topics familiar from her earlier work: the nature of consciousness, aging, the looming ecological crisis, the vacuousness of much of what passes for public discourse.” ―Simon Collings, StrideMagazine “Conjure offers a magic of its own, with sometimes sly and always unforgettable juxtapositions of the minute and the exceptional, elevated by the intellect, flair, and confidence of a poet at the top of her game.” ―Mandana Chaffa, Ploughshares “Unsettling, slippery intimations move just below the surface of Rae Armantrout’s enigmatic and unforgettable new collection of poems. For the record, Rae Armantrout is my favourite living poet.” ―Nick Cave |
| conjure: Handbook of Deborean Crafts D A Goodrich, 2019-02-16 Crafts are an important part of the Deborean tradition. Both the Celts and the indigenous people of the Americas were master crafts workers. In most witchcraft traditions, making one's own ritual tools has a tendency to make the object more powerful as it is imbued at the onset with your energy signature |
| conjure: Artesia Kevin A. Karr, 2025-03-31 Artesia - eBook edition! --------------------------------------- Happiness has been lacking in Lucas and Lucy’s life. Obsessed with art, Lucas is excited to go on a school art trip to the local museum with mom. The children discover a magical painting created by Leonardo Da Vinci that sends the children to another realm when Lucy accidentally falls into and activates it after hiding from school bullies in the museum. Lucas runs after her and the two children soon wake up stranded in an unknown forest where they meet a small green owl, named Wholio, in the forest who they befriend. The children travel with Wholio to the nearby town to find answers and food but the children soon realize things are very strange and that they are no longer on Earth. In town, they encounter beings called Conjures who are literal beings of living art. At the local bar they meet Salai, Leonardo Da Vinci’s old assistant and after an incident he takes them to meet an old human sorcerer called the Guardian who might be able to help them get back home. The children soon discover however that the Guardian actually needs their help to fight and win a war that’s coming to restore happiness and control from an evil Queen Tyrant and her evil conjured army. The Guardian offers to train the children as human conjuring sorcerers to help him fight her. Once the war is won he promises to help they get home again but if they lose, the realm may cease to exist. ----------------------------------------------- Artesia is available in print formats: Paperback, hardcover (B&W) and a Hardcover Special Color Collectors Edition on Amazon and orderable from select Book stores! visit www.artesiumpress.com for more details! |
| conjure: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, 1791 |
| conjure: Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic , 1998 Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on the Sworn Book of Honorius, Michael Camille on the images in Ars Notoria manuscripts, John B. Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson on the Liber Visionum, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. The work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis, and an overview of late medieval English ritual magic manuscripts by Frank Klaassen. Claire Fanger's introduction describes the context of late medieval magical texts, both 'angelic' and 'demonic', and offers insight into the place of magic in the medieval world. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers interested in ritual magic in the later Middle Ages.--Back cover. |
| conjure: Playing the Races Henry B. Wonham, 2004-06-17 Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described tool of the democratic spirit, designed to prick the bubble of abstract types, literary realism would seem to have little in common with the aggressively dehumanizing comic imagery that began to proliferate in magazines and newspapers after the Civil War. Indeed, critics such as Alain Locke hailed realism's potential to accomplish the artistic emancipation of the Negro, a project that logically extended to other groups systematically misrepresented in the comic imagery of the period. From the influential Editor's Study at Harper's Monthly, William Dean Howells touted the democratic impulse of realist imagery as an alternative to romanticism's pride of caste, which is averse to the mass of men and consents to know them only in some conventionalized and artificial guise. Yet if literary realism pursued the interests of democracy by affirming the equality of things and the unity of men, why did its major practitioners, including Howells himself, regularly employ comic typification as a feature of their representational practice? Critics have often dismissed such apparent lapses in realist practice as blind spots, vestiges of a genteel social consciousness that failed to keep pace with realism's avowed democratic aspirations. Such explanations are useful to a point, but they overlook the fact that the age of realism in American art and letters was simultaneously the great age of ethnic caricature. Henry B. Wonham argues that these two aesthetic programs, one committed to representation of the fully humanized individual, the other invested in broad ethnic abstractions, operate less as antithetical choices than as complementary impulses, both of which receive full play within the period's most demanding literary and graphic works. The seemingly anomalous presence of gross ethnic abstractions within works by Howells, Twain, James, Wharton, and Chesnutt hints at realism's vexed and complicated relationship with the caricatured ethnic images that played a central role in late nineteenth-century American thinking about race, identity, and national culture. In illuminating that relationship, Playing the Races offers a fresh understanding of the rich literary discourse conceived at the intersection of the realist and the caricatured image. |
| conjure: Temperance and Cosmopolitanism Carole Lynn Stewart, 2018-10-01 Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith. Their voluntary travels, a reversal of the involuntary movement of enslavement, form the basis for a critical mode of cosmopolitan freedom rooted in temperance. Both before and after the Civil War, white Americans often associated alcohol and drugs with blackness and enslavement. Carole Lynn Stewart traces how African American reformers mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom—a freedom that draws on themes of abolitionism and temperance not only as principles and practices for the inner life but simultaneously as the ordering structures for forms of culture and society. While investigating traditional meanings of temperance consistent with the ethos of the Protestant work ethic, Enlightenment rationality, or asceticism, Stewart shows how temperance informed the founding of diasporic communities and civil societies to heal those who had been affected by the pursuit of excess in the transatlantic slave trade and the individualist pursuit of happiness. By elucidating the concept of the “black Atlantic” through the lenses of literary reformers, Temperance and Cosmopolitanism challenges the narrative of Atlantic history, empire, and European elite cosmopolitanism. Its interdisciplinary approach will be of particular value to scholars of African American literature and history as well as scholars of nineteenth-century cultural, political, and religious studies. |
| conjure: Words beginning with H Jaan Puhvel, 2011-06-03 The HittiteEtymological Dictionary is a comprehensive compendium of the vocabulary of Hittite, one of the great languages of the Ancient Near East, and of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European studies. Since the start of publication, as evidenced by frequency of reference and quotation, this work has become an important tool for study and research in Hittite, Ancient Anatolian, and Indo-European linguistics. |
| conjure: Dramatic Works with Explanatory Notes. A New Ed., to which is Now Added a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words by Samuel Ayscough William Shakespeare, 1790 |
| conjure: Great Dictionary of Atomic Typographical Errors in English. Omission of a Single Letter – III.1 A-D Cornéliu Tocan, 2025-03-31 (24,625 lemmata – 32,506 Atomic Typographical Errors – 254 pages) |
| conjure: A Circle of Three A. Valentine Smith, 2003-11 Mandy enters A Circle of Three with her friends April and Sandy in a Newport, Rhode Island summer of seventeenth birthdays, summer jobs, an Enchanted Hurricane, and a Dream Invader, who's after a secret that the girls don't even know they're guarding. Struggling to catch up in her Magikal training with her friends, Mandy's newfound chaotic skills are both helpful and dangerous as the three teens and April's precocious younger sister, Brenna, try to have a normal summer amidst the coming Hurricane's 'Winds of Misfortune', the appearance of Aisling, the mischievous Invader of their summer Dreams, and an unwelcome return of Courtney who helps and hinders their every step. Each girl deals with a recent past as Sandys mom, Karen, struggles with her own past, a past that only Three can Free. |
| conjure: Disabilities of the Color Line Dennis Tyler, 2022-02-15 Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of Blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, [this book] examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice-- |
| conjure: Silver's Spells for Protection Silver RavenWolf, 2013-02-08 What do you do when you discover that your best friend at work sabotaged your promotion? Or if a neighbor suddenly decides that you don't belong in his town? What if a group of teens sets out to make your life a living hell? Silver's Spells for Protection contains tips for dealing with all these situations, and more. This book covers how to handle stalkers, abusers, and other nasties with practical information as well as magickal techniques. It also discusses some of the other irritants in life-like protecting yourself from your mother-in-law's caustic tongue and how to avoid that guy who's out to take your job. |
| conjure: Encyclopedia of American Folklore Linda S. Watts, 2006 Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore the topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to the folklore of the United States. |
| conjure: Race, Gender, and Identity James L. Conyers, Jr., 2013-09-30 This volume examines race, gender, and identity in African American culture. As with previous volumes in the series, these collected essays provide a social science and interdisciplinary framework for the exploration of Africana cultural and social phenomena. The contributors have adopted mixed methods and meta-theory tools of analysis to describe and evaluate these issues from an African-centered perspective. Kameelah Martin examines the role of women in the films of Julie Dash and Kasi Lemmons. Toya Roberts offers an experimental study of African American males at predominantly white institutions of higher education. Rochelle Brocks digs into the transition, transformation, and transcendence of civil rights to the Black Arts/Black Power movements for social change. Portia K. Maultsby provides an ethnographic study, inspecting the genre of funk music in the United States. James L. Conyers, Jr. analyzes the doctoral dissertation of W. E. B. Du Bois, which cataloged the impact of colonialism on Africana culture. Kesha Morant Williams and Ronald L. Jackson II examine the impact of lupus on the identity of African American women. Ronald Turner’s essay examines black workers challenging racist practices by their union representatives. Lisbeth Gant-Britton renders a conceptual history of the hip-hop community, with emphasis on international issues. This volume is an invaluable sourcebook for those studying African American affairs, history, and cultural studies. |
| conjure: African American Slave Medicine Herbert C. Covey, 2007-01-01 African American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African American slaves' medical needs were addressed during the years before and surrounding the Civil War. Dr. Herbert C. Covey inventories many of the herbal, plant, and non-plant remedies used by African American folk practitioners during slavery. |
| conjure: Okefenokee R. J. Harden, 2018-01-16 Voodoo and Black magic practiced in Georgia's sweltering Okenfenokee Swamp. Life was held in the balance at the many dangers living in the Okenfenokee. Spellbinding suspense makes this book a rollercoaster of emotions, an over the edge page turner, where life is interlocked between a white and black family. A symphony of emotions. Love, betrayal, ignorance, prejudice and bitter hatred. A young woman having a child out of wedlock in the time span of this book was labeled a whore, and her child a bastard. |
| conjure: Manifesting the Primal Imagination Joshua D. Settles, 2024-09-26 Manifesting the Primal Imagination explores a little known, but important, aspect of Black American Christianity—the primal spirituality of the Black Pentecostal and spiritual church. Set against the backdrop of a Christianity believed by many to be synonymous with White Western culture, Manifesting the Primal Imagination demonstrates how this image of Christianity came to be, and how it is false, through a historical and scriptural examination of Christianity itself. At a time in which the nature of Christian faith is hotly contested, with many rejecting Christianity on the basis of its historical association with White supremacist claims, Settles advocates for a rereading of the history of Black American faith in a way that recognizes the importance of the primal imagination to Christianity itself. |
| conjure: The Journal of American Folklore , 1896 |
| conjure: The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, Volume 1 Hans Dieter Betz, 1986 The Greek magical papyri is a collection of magical spells and formulas, hymns, and rituals from Greco-Roman Egypt, dating from the second century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. Containing a fresh translation of the Greek papyri, as well as Coptic and Demotic texts, this new translation has been brought up to date and is now the most comprehensive collection of this literature, and the first ever in English. The Greek Magical Papyri in Transition is an invaluable resource for scholars in a wide variety of fields, from the history of religions to the classical languages and literatures, and it will fascinate those with a general interest in the occult and the history of magic. One of the major achievements of classical and related scholarship over the last decade.—Ioan P. Culianu, Journal for the Study of Judaism The enormous value of this new volume lies in the fact that these texts will now be available to a much wider audience of readers, including historians or religion, anthropologists, and psychologists.—John G. Gager, Journal of Religion [This book] shows care, skill and zest. . . . Any worker in the field will welcome this sterling performance.—Peter Parsons, Times Literary Supplement |
| conjure: Conjuring Dirt Taren S, 2023-08-15 Right under your feet lies one of the best magickal tools a practitioner could use in their workings - dirt. Whether it comes from graveyards, footprints, crossroads, or elsewhere, the dirt from different places is a powerful aid in the magick to your workings. When we work with dirt, we’re working with one of the most fundamental elements of being human. From dust we appeared and to dust we shall return, the saying goes. Dirt creates a magickal, energetic link that heightens any endeavor. This element of earth brings a deep spiritual dynamic and connection to any working. Since it might be difficult to decide where to start - because dirt covers the planet, even under the oceans - author Taren S narrows the focus to specific magickal-spiritual locations, locations of merit and power, for you to collect your own dirt. Implementing dirt into magickal workings requires more skill than its availability would denote. Dirt workings involve the realms of light and dark magick, healing, curses, and death. This book will guide, help, and warn all those who wish to use dirt for magickal workings. |
| conjure: Conjuring Harriet "Mama Moses" Tubman and the Spirits of the Underground Railroad Witchdoctor Utu, 2019-02-01 The spirits of Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and other heroes of the Underground Railroad guide readers on a magical path to healing, empowerment, and liberation. The historical role that magic and soothsaying played in the Underground Railroad has long been ignored out of fear it might diminish the legacy of Harriet Tubman and other heroes of that time. However, Harriet Tubman was a Conjure woman who relied on her dreams and visionary experiences to lead her followers to freedom. Revered as “Mama Moses,” she, along with John Brown, Mary Ellen Pleasant, and others have been venerated since their deaths. They now have emerged in the 21st century as the pantheon of a new and increasingly popular African-Diaspora tradition. Written by Witchdoctor Utu, founder of the Niagara Voodoo Shrine, this is the first book devoted to the spiritual and magical tradition of the Underground Railroad. In it, the author conjures the spirits of the Underground Railroad, their continued connection to each other, and their “tracks” still leading to freedom from obstacles, bondage, and trouble and tribulations of all kinds. It is a spiritual tradition that is broadly accessible and inclusive, much like the historical Underground Railroad itself, whose participants were black, white, and Native American, male and female, Christians, Jews, Quakers, animists, secret devotees of forbidden African religions, and free thinkers of all kinds. This revelatory book teaches readers how to invoke the blessings of Mama Moses and her followers, access their healing inspiration and magic powers, and seek their own path to freedom. |
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The meaning of CONJURE is to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly. How to use conjure in a sentence.
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Conjure definition: to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.. See examples of CONJURE used in a sentence.
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CONJURE definition: 1. to make something appear by magic, or as if by magic: 2. to make something appear by magic, or…. Learn more.
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Definition of conjure verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to do clever tricks such as making things seem to appear or disappear as if by magic. Her grandfather taught her to …
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Sometimes the mere sight or smell of something can conjure or stir up long lost memories, magically transporting you back to another place and time. But in the early 13th century, …
CONJURE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic. Thirteen years ago she found herself having to conjure a career from thin air. American English : conjure / ˈkɒndʒər /
Conjure Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
Conjure definition: To call on or entreat solemnly, especially by an oath.
Conjure - definition of conjure by The Free Dictionary
1. to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell. 2. to effect or produce by or as if by magic: to conjure a miracle. 3. to call upon or command (a devil or spirit) by invocation or spell. …
Conjure - Wikipedia
Conjure may be: a verb with a range of common meanings; see its Wiktionary entry and Conjuration (disambiguation) a noun used regionally in the United States for Hoodoo
CONJURE Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for CONJURE: beg, petition, ask, pray, entreat, call upon, implore, appeal (to); Antonyms of CONJURE: imply, suggest, hint, please, satisfy, intimate, appease, placate
CONJURE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CONJURE is to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly. How to use conjure in a sentence.
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Conjure definition: to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell.. See examples of CONJURE used in a sentence.
CONJURE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
CONJURE definition: 1. to make something appear by magic, or as if by magic: 2. to make something appear by magic, or…. Learn more.
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Definition of conjure verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to do clever tricks such as making things seem to appear or disappear as if by magic. Her grandfather taught her to …
Conjure - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
Sometimes the mere sight or smell of something can conjure or stir up long lost memories, magically transporting you back to another place and time. But in the early 13th century, …
CONJURE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic. Thirteen years ago she found herself having to conjure a career from thin air. American English : conjure / ˈkɒndʒər /
Conjure Definition & Meaning - YourDictionary
Conjure definition: To call on or entreat solemnly, especially by an oath.
Conjure - definition of conjure by The Free Dictionary
1. to affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell. 2. to effect or produce by or as if by magic: to conjure a miracle. 3. to call upon or command (a devil or spirit) by invocation or spell. …
Conjure - Wikipedia
Conjure may be: a verb with a range of common meanings; see its Wiktionary entry and Conjuration (disambiguation) a noun used regionally in the United States for Hoodoo
CONJURE Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for CONJURE: beg, petition, ask, pray, entreat, call upon, implore, appeal (to); Antonyms of CONJURE: imply, suggest, hint, please, satisfy, intimate, appease, placate
