Why do we pin the Doll - Hoodoo Voodoo with Denise Alvarado

"Voodoo Hoodoo" is the unique variety of Creole Voodoo found in New Orleans. The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook is a rich compendium of more than 300 authentic Voodoo and Hoodoo recipes, rituals, and spells for love, justice, gambling luck, prosperity, health, and success.

Cultural psychologist and root worker Denise Alvarado, who grew up in New Orleans, draws from a lifetime of recipes and spells learned from family, friends, and local practitioners. She traces the history of the African-based folk magic brought by slaves to New Orleans, and shows how it evolved over time to include influences from Native American spirituality, Catholicism, and Pentecostalism. She shares her research into folklore collections and 19th- and 20th- century formularies along with her own magical arts.

Denise Alvarado is going to tell us "why we pin the doll" and all about Hoodoo Voodoo and her new revised edition of her book.

Denise Alvarado (1960) is a New Orleans born, native Creole raised in the Voodoo and hoodoo rich culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. She has studied indigenous healing traditions from a personal, professional and academic perspective for over four decades. Her self-published "The Voodoo Hoodoo Spellbook" has done so well that she recently joined the largest publisher of occult books, Weiser and Conari Press, for a revision and expansion of that work to be released in November 2011. Her provocative artwork has been featured on National Geographic's Taboo, as well as in several books by other authors. In addition, her seminars and coaching on cultural fluency and the magickal arts have helped thousands of people around the globe market their businesses successfully and improve their lives exponentially. She is a rootworker in the New Orleans Voodoo/hoodoo tradition, a medicine woman, ritual artist, spiritual adviser, and consultant. To see her online gallery of spiritual and ritual art, please visit, www.mysticvoodoo.com. To purchase her line of authentic hoodoo ritual products, Voodoo Mama's Hoodoo Oils, Potions and Gris Gris, or to inquire about other services, please visit www.planetvoodoo.com. To view her cutting edge research on Native American psychology and quality of life please visit www.nativeamericanwellness.com.