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"This book is about Black girl magick, queer girl magick, straight girl magick, trans magick, bisexual magick. It's about giving yourself the power to be fierce...Black women are Hierophants, Magicians, Empresses, and High Priestesses."—Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani

Authentic and unapologetic, this guide to magical spirituality empowers you to take back the power to heal and shine under your own strength. Written by an accomplished Hoodoo practitioner, Conjuring the Calabash features spells, recipes, and rituals that help you rise out of the constrictions around you.

Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani shows you how to bless your calabash (sacred womb) with love and reawaken your fullest potential through folk traditions, personal stories, and her favorite songs and pop stars. An inclusive and intersectional voice in contemporary Hoodoo, Mawiyah will help you become your fiercest self.

ISBN-13: 9780738773711

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications

Publication Date: 11-08-2023

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d

Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani is an award-winning writer, educator, and spirit woman. Mawiyah is an eighth-generation Witch, Egun Medium, and Priestess of OYA in the Yoruba system of spirituality. She is also editor in chief of the culture and Afrikan Traditional Spirituality e-zine, Oya N'Soro. Mawiyah is the host of FishHeadsinRedGravy, a podcast dedicated to celebrating marginalized people of the esoteric/occult world. Her writings have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Crab Orchard Review, Dark Eros, and Catch the Fire. She has written several plays, including Spring Chickens, which won her the Southern Black Theatre Festival's 2012-2013 Playwright of the Year Award. She is also the Critical Mass 8 Literary Award winner and a KAT Artist Residency recipient. Mawiyah currently lives, writes, and conducts Orisa rituals, spiritual consultations, workshops, house cleansings, and divinations in both northern and southern Louisiana. Visit her at www.MawiyahKaiELJamahBomani.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword xv

Introduction 1

One: Crescent City Hoodoo 7

Two: Tools of the Trade 21

Three: Sexual Evolutions 43

Four: Love Me or Leave Me Alone 75

Five: Cold Hard Cash 101

Six: Goofer Dust in Your Eye 135

Seven: Mother Earth Sustains Me 159

Eight: Just for the Men 181

Nine: Goddess Bless the Child 199

Ten: Crossing Over 217

Eleven: Lagniappe 239

Conclusion 257

Acknowledgments 261

Bibliography 263