Saints, Prophets, and Archangels in Folk Magic
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 10:16 pm
While I know that Hoodoo is not a religion per se, that does not mean it doesn't have spiritual beliefs or have some aspects of the practice that can be traced to religions. One of these examples is the use of prayers and petitions of various Saints or Prophets from the bible and Christian faiths. This is actually one of the things that drew me to Hoodoo as a magical practice,
My mother was raised Catholic. So she instructed me on a few of the Saints as well as on the angels. The concept of praying to Saints seemed to be one of the things she taught me that ultimatley lead to my path as a witch through seeing other types of spirits and beings petitioned. Now not being Catholic I don't know about the Saint Holy Days and actual prayers. I just had the most basic concept of working with them.
Within Christianity there is one more set of sacred beings that I have not seen mentioned in any books on Hoodoo. That set of beings would be the Arch Angels. I wonder if these beings aren't worked with in HooDoo because there are other magical traditions that deal with them (Ceremonial magic does as well as Enochian Magic). Yet it seems to me that they would still be workable entities within Hoodoo knowing the history of the practice.
Have you seen or heard of the archangels being petitioned in HooDoo?
Do you work with any of the Saints in petitions?
Have you heard about working with the prophets in the bible?
My mother was raised Catholic. So she instructed me on a few of the Saints as well as on the angels. The concept of praying to Saints seemed to be one of the things she taught me that ultimatley lead to my path as a witch through seeing other types of spirits and beings petitioned. Now not being Catholic I don't know about the Saint Holy Days and actual prayers. I just had the most basic concept of working with them.
Within Christianity there is one more set of sacred beings that I have not seen mentioned in any books on Hoodoo. That set of beings would be the Arch Angels. I wonder if these beings aren't worked with in HooDoo because there are other magical traditions that deal with them (Ceremonial magic does as well as Enochian Magic). Yet it seems to me that they would still be workable entities within Hoodoo knowing the history of the practice.
Have you seen or heard of the archangels being petitioned in HooDoo?
Do you work with any of the Saints in petitions?
Have you heard about working with the prophets in the bible?