A LITTLE INFO ON LA SANTA MUERTE TO PIQUE YOUR INTEREST
Santa Muerte, AKA Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Our Lady of Holy Death), La Huesuda (The Bony Lady), La Flaca (The Skinny Woman), and Santísima Muerte (Most Holy Death) is a Mexican deity, folk saint, and spiritual icon. Her origins are believed to be…
FLEXIBILITY CAN BE A GOOD THING
But so is tradition. As much as the Crowd likes to bellow from the hilltops, “My magic, my way!” and “You do you!” and “We don’t need no stinking badges (or rules)!” doesn’t mean that there aren’t some rules worth following, or that there aren’t some things that are immutable….
A NEW WORLD GRIMOIRE
In the work, The Long-Lost Friend, Johann George Hohman details some of the traditional customs and folk magic of the early German-speaking immigrants to Pennsylvania, AKA the Pennsylvania Dutch, and the “pow-wow” healers of the area. While not hoodoo, it is still similar enough in content to be useful and informative to one of a more southerly…
LET THERE BE LAMPS!
When people think of oil lamps, they usually think of the type of lamp that has a reservoir base, a wick, and a glass chimney, like the ones we sell here:
However, oil lamps come in many different shapes, styles, and materials because they have been around forever…