Curios

Curios are the physical tokens of hoodoo: roots, minerals, animal parts and found objects, each with a reputation built up over generations of conjure practice. A rootworker may carry an alligator claw or a lucky hand root in a mojo bag, keep a lodestone fed on a dish, drive a coffin nail into a footprint or sprinkle sulphur to drive off enemies. Many of these uses appear in the testimony folklorists collected from Southern workers in the 1930s. Curios are usually dressed with a matching oil, prayed over and fed regularly to keep them active. This section includes mineral, zoological and botanical curios, mojo bag curios and the conjure oils that dress them.