Early books about voodoo.

[Desecrated]

I don't claim that this is a complete list and I'm 100% sure that I've missed something. But I thought that I share what I've found so far and hopefully some of you can help me complete the list.


The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina 1763

Voodoo is never mentioned in this book directly, but there is a section about gris-gris. There is also a longer and interesting part about the local Indians, public dance and the snake worship that was alive in the city.

Here is the entire book:
https://archive.org/details/cihm_18172

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“Idolatry and Quackery,” 1820

This is a newspapper article mentioning an African deity named Vaudoo.
Louisiana Gazette. August 16,1820


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"The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book": An Antebellum Text "By Chloe Russel, a Woman of Colour" 1824

Probably the first book published in america by a black woman. It does not contain any voodoo, instead it follows numerous cheap books published out in europe at the time. Both the cyprianus and sibylla belong to this group of books.

https://archive.org/details/mysticoracleorco00lupt

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The Virgins of the Voudous 1850


This is a short article from the weekly delta august 12th 1850
It's not on the internet, but it is available in some American libraries.
It mentions some sort of public gathering where the police have intervened and taking a relic in possession. This relic/staty is called "the voudou virgin"


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The voudou case disposed of 1863

Another article. Cops broke up a private party with dancing women. I don't know from which paper.
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William Wells Brown - My Southern Home or, The South and Its People 1880

There is a fairly long part of this book devoted to voodoo worship. He talks about some of the people and even some of the spells and customs.
The book is still in print today so I can't link the text. But the good news is that you can get it in any public library.
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Marie Laveau obituary. The New Orleans Daily Picayune printed the following obituary in 1881:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/483506/ ... ie_laveau/

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Two short articles by Lafcadio Hearn about New Orleans Voodoo. Hearn, a New Orleans native, also wrote extensive works about Japan.

Last of the Voudoos [1885]
New Orleans Superstitions [1886]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/hearn/lastvdu.htm

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/hearn/nos.htm

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Mary Alicia Owen wrote 4 books containing voodoo. I found two of her works but included the name of all 4 in case somebody else can find the missing two.


1. Mary Alicia Owen - Among the Voodoos" 1892

2. Voodoo tales as told among the Negroes of the southwest, collected from original sources, introduction by Charles Godfrey Leland, illustrated by Juliette Owen and Louis Wain. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1893,

3. Old Rabbit the Voodoo, and other Sorcerers. By Mary Alicia Owen. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.

4. "Voodooism" 1898.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transact ... he_Voodoos

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Inte ... /Voodooism

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"Lecture On Haiti" by Frederick Douglass, delivered at the World's Fair in Chicago, January 2, 1893

http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/hai ... uglass.htm

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spencer st john , hayti or the black republic 1889 page 182

http://www.archive.org/stream/cu3192402 ... 4_djvu.txt

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Aunt Sally's Policy-Players' Dream Book and Wheel of Fortune

Wehman Bros., 1889

http://americanvalues.org/catalog/pdfs/ ... m-book.pdf


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Helen Pitkin's An Angel by Brevet
a new orleans voodoo ceremony 1904
Still in print.

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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, edited by Don Cosentino

This exhaustive compendium of image and word is well worth the hernias one risks by carrying it around. If I was going to choose one book to serve as a single-volume encyclopedia of Haitian history and culture, this would be it.

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Voodoo and Obeahs
By Joseph J. Williams [1932]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/vao/index.htm

Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica
By Joseph J. Williams. [1934]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/ppj/index.htm

[Shinichi]

You're familiar with Araignee, aren't you? I feel they will probably know of a few more old books for a list like this.



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[Desecrated]

You're familiar with Araignee, aren't you? I feel they will probably know of a few more old books for a list like this.



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Nope, never heard of it. What is it?

[Shinichi]

Not an it, but a they. They are a couple in...South Africa, I think, who practice Necromancy and similar dark sorcery and work as professionals. They've written a book or two as well.

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This is probably their biggest online presence, since Wizard Forums is just so big. They also run a site, arcanelodge and engage in discussions there when time allows. Hagen Van Horne and monsnoleedra on AL are also well read and may know of a few interesting books.

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[WillowDarkWytch]

Motumbá Àse, Des

Thanks for the info! It's awesome. I'm not that acquainted to New Orleans Vodou or african diaspora and cutlure in that zone. It's awesome to see some "relics" like Marie Laveau's obituary!

Thank you for the books, I'll be reading a lot!

Shin, I still cannot get back my account in Arcane Lodge ¬¬ and I saw their "presentation" in the other forum. I don't know, it didn't sound much serious to me, at least not as ATR. In African Vodun you don't have "Baron" or "Baronesse", I don't know, they didn't sound that serious, maybe if I met them (person or online) I might think otherwise. I'm not very fond of "flamboyant-bombastic" titles or names xD "Necromantic Sorcerers" sounds to much xD

Saravá
Idansinají

[Shinichi]

Shin, I still cannot get back my account in Arcane Lodge ¬¬

Whoops. Sorry, I thought that got taken care of last time we talked about it. [blush] I'll send another message to the powers that be and see if we can get you straightened out.

and I saw their "presentation" in the other forum. I don't know, it didn't sound much serious to me, at least not as ATR. In African Vodun you don't have "Baron" or "Baronesse", I don't know, they didn't sound that serious, maybe if I met them (person or online) I might think otherwise. I'm not very fond of "flamboyant-bombastic" titles or names xD "Necromantic Sorcerers" sounds to much xD

Most of the self-proclaimed sorcerers I've met over the years possess a strong ego in some form or another. It's not always flamboyant or flashy, but some people enjoy living in a certain persona and I've learned to not judge wisdom and power by appearances. Araignee has a particular set of skills and knowledge, and while plenty of it is quite different from what I'm used to in my primary fields of study I respect the dedication and sincerity to their craft that I have seen from them. [smile2]



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[WillowDarkWytch]

Whoops. Sorry, I thought that got taken care of last time we talked about it. I'll send another message to the powers that be and see if we can get you straightened out.

Nope, it wasn't u...u
Thank you for your help and I'm sorry for being a pain in the ass xD

Most of the self-proclaimed sorcerers I've met over the years possess a strong ego in some form or another. It's not always flamboyant or flashy, but some people enjoy living in a certain persona and I've learned to not judge wisdom and power by appearances. Araignee has a particular set of skills and knowledge, and while plenty of it is quite different from what I'm used to in my primary fields of study I respect the dedication and sincerity to their craft that I have seen from them.

If you say so, I'll give them a chance

(not that it matters to them xDDD )

[Nahemah]

Way too much off topic discussion here.

Lets return to the topic at hand please.

The Zombie In/As the Text: Zora Neale Hurston's "Tell My Horse", Amy Fass Emery, African American Review, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Fall, 2005), pp. 327-336

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40033667?s ... b_contents

I'm not amazon linking here, but Tell My Horse and other works are available from reputable sellers.

Zora Neale Hurston, was a black anthroplogist( and civil rights activist) who went to Haiti and became an initiate while there. I recommend you read her Willow, as I think you'll find her work interesting. She was a student of Boaz and has been largely silenced in academic circles, due to her 'inability' to report as an outsider and her failure to remain 'detached' from the people and events around her.