Lowcountry Voodoo (eBook)

Beginner's Guide to Tales, Spells and Boo Hags

Terrance Zepke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
151 Seiten
Pineapple Press (Verlag)
978-1-56164-871-9 (ISBN)

Infos

When African slaves were brought to the American South to work the plantations, they brought with them their culture, traditions, and religionincluding what came to be called voodoo. This unique blend of Christianity, herbalism, and folk magic is still practiced in South Carolina's Lowcountry.Though a beginners guide, Lowcountry Voodoo offers a surprising wealth of information about this fascinating part of Lowcountry life.Learn about:the Gullah and their wayshow to bring good luck and avoid bad luckspells and curses and how to avoid themhow to cook up traditional good-luck meals for New Years Daya real voodoo village you can visitsweetgrass basketsevents and tours to acquaint you with Lowcountry culture.In a selection of Lowcountry tales that feature voodoo, meet:a boo hag bride who sheds her skin at nightDr. Buzzard, the most famous root doctora giant ghost doga young man whose love potion worked too wellGeorge Powell, who outwitted a haintCrook-Neck Dick, who (mostly) outwitted a hangmanDoctor Trott, who captured a mermaid.

Autor

Award-winning travel writer/photographer Terrance Zepke loves the Carolinas, which is why she lives part-time in each. Terrance has lived in many places, including Hawaii, England, and several U.S. states. She received her master's degree from the University of South Carolina and has traveled all over the world, writing and photographing for such magazines as EcoTraveler, South America Explorer, and Photographer's Forum, as well as newspapers such as Greensboro (NC) News & Record and Knoxville (TN) News Sentinel.Visit the author's website at www.terrancezepke.com

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2015
• Illustrationen: Michael Swing
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Africa • African • African American • America • apothecaries • Atlantic • basket • baskets • Beginners • Belief • Beliefs • boo hags • bugaloo • buzzard • Christianity • cooking • Cosmology • cotton • craft • Crafts • curses • Doctor • Doll • dr. buzzard • Events • Folk • Folklore • George Powell • good-luck • Guide • Gullah • haint • herbal • herbalism • herbs • Holidays • How-To • lodestones • Love • love potion • low country • luck • Magic • magick • Meals • Mermaid • Michael Swing • plantation • platys • potion • Religion • Root • rootwork • saint helena • sea island • Slavery • slave trade • South • South Carolina • southern • spell crafts • Spells • St. Helena • sweetgrass • syncretic • Syncretism • Tales • terrance zepke • Tours • Voodoo • weaving
• ISBN-10: 1-56164-871-X / 156164871X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56164-871-9 / 9781561648719