{"title":"Afro-American Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks about Afro-American magical traditions, including Hoodoo, Voodoo, Rootwork, and related spiritual practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"voodoos-and-obeahs","title":"Voodoos and Obeahs","description":"\u003ch3\u003eVoodoos and Obeahs:  Phases of West India Witchcraft\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVoodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby the Jesuit anthropologist Joseph J. Williams (1875-1940) offers a careful documentation of the history and ethnography of Voodoo and reveals the connection of both\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eHaitian Voodoo\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Jamaican Obeah to snake worship (ophioletreia). In Jamaica, Obeah is the general term to denote those Africans who in the island practice witchcraft or sorcery. Williams includes numerous quotations from rare documents and books on the topic. This work goes into great depth concerning the New World-African connection and is highly recommended if you want a deep understanding of the dramatic historical background of Haitian and Jamaican magic and witchcraft, and the profound influence of imperialism, slavery and racism on its development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliams is best known for his anthropological writings about African and Caribbean people. 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The book was written by Robert Hamill Nassau, an American Presbyterian missionary, within a Christian scope and prejudice concerning West African culture and spirituality, which were typical for the 19th and early 20th century. However, despite a nowadays anachronist and disturbing perspective, the book has remained most valuable for students of the occult, especially those interested in demonology, voodoo, hoodoo and its roots, African magick and religion, witchcraft, the classes of African spirits, and of course the spiritual and magickal use of a fetish. Particularly those students in magick who are interested in working with thought forms or familiars should pay attention to this book, as African fetichism resides in the borderland between animism and nature spirit worship and the magickal animation of an object as it is taught by teachers as Franz Bardon and Raven Grimassi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVAMzzz Publishing republished this book, not because we share the view of the colonist and missionary, but apart from the historical backgrounds of voodoo, for the cheer preservation of valuable magickal root information, and because Africa is too often neglected and underrated in this context by the modern practitioner of magick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VAMzzz Occult Bookstore Global","offers":[{"title":"ENG- English","offer_id":54639324365139,"sku":"9789492355188","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1092\/1302\/4595\/files\/018_fetichism_cover.jpg?v=1787232100"},{"product_id":"anansi","title":"Anansi","description":"\u003ch3\u003eJamaican stories of the Spider God\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore. The Anansi tales originate from the Ashanti people of present-day Ghana. The word Ananse is Akan and means “spider”. They later spread to other Akan groups and then to the West Indies, Suriname, Sierra Leone (where they were introduced by Jamaican Maroons) and the Netherlands Antilles. On Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire he is known as Nanzi, and his wife as Shi Maria. The Jamaican versions of these stories are the most well preserved, because Jamaica had the largest concentration of Asante as slaves in the Americas, and their most complete compilation is found in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnansi, Jamaican stories of the Spider God.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the revised edition of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJamaica Anansi Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby the American folklorist Martha Warren Beckwith. While many early folklorists believed that the term “folk” only referred to the oral culture of “savages”, Beckwith maintained that all cultures had folk traditions that warranted investigation. 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The scope of these tales encompasses local mythology and stories suitable for children, to tales so cruel they will still shock a modern public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDayrell authored two collections of folklore. The first was published as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFolk stories from Southern Nigeria\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1911), containing 40 stories. The second one he entitled\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIkom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria\u003c\/em\u003e, which was published by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in 1913. 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