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One of the biggest myths about Hoodoo is that it was completely hidden until social media came along.  This conversation isn’t about whether Hoodoo contained private knowledge. It absolutely did. The question is whether the entire tradition was invisible. When you look at the historical record, the answer is nuanced. Our communities knew who the healers, midwives, root doctors, herbalists, and conjure practitioners were. Enslaved Africans and their descendants preserved knowledge through oral tradition, family instruction, community relationships, and, once literacy became more accessible after Emancipation, through written documentation as well. Scholars like Zora Neale Hurston, Harry Middleton Hyatt, the WPA interviewers, Black newspapers, and countless practitioners all left pieces of that history behind. Privacy and invisibility are not the same thing. One of the biggest challenges today is separating the way social media works from the way traditional communities worked. Social media rewards exclusivity, popularity, and visibility. Communities survived through responsibility, trust, and service. Our ancestors understood that people had different gifts and different roles, but those roles existed to strengthen the people, not elevate one person above everyone else. History becomes much clearer when we stop asking, “Who has the secret?” and start asking, “How did our ancestors preserve this tradition for generations?” The answer isn’t hidden nearly as well as many people think. Sources: Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston; Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork by Harry Middleton Hyatt; Working the Roots by Michele Elizabeth Lee; Works Progress Administration (WPA) Slave Narratives; Franz Boas’ introduction to Mules and Men. #hoodoo #History
One of the biggest myths about Hoodoo is that it was completely hidden until social media came along. This conversation isn’t about whether Hoodoo contained private knowledge. It absolutely did. The question is whether the entire tradition was invisible. When you look at the historical record, the answer is nuanced. Our communities knew who the healers, midwives, root doctors, herbalists, and conjure practitioners were. Enslaved Africans and their descendants preserved knowledge through oral tradition, family instruction, community relationships, and, once literacy became more accessible after Emancipation, through written documentation as well. Scholars like Zora Neale Hurston, Harry Middleton Hyatt, the WPA interviewers, Black newspapers, and countless practitioners all left pieces of that history behind. Privacy and invisibility are not the same thing. One of the biggest challenges today is separating the way social media works from the way traditional communities worked. Social media rewards exclusivity, popularity, and visibility. Communities survived through responsibility, trust, and service. Our ancestors understood that people had different gifts and different roles, but those roles existed to strengthen the people, not elevate one person above everyone else. History becomes much clearer when we stop asking, “Who has the secret?” and start asking, “How did our ancestors preserve this tradition for generations?” The answer isn’t hidden nearly as well as many people think. Sources: Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston; Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork by Harry Middleton Hyatt; Working the Roots by Michele Elizabeth Lee; Works Progress Administration (WPA) Slave Narratives; Franz Boas’ introduction to Mules and Men. #hoodoo #History

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