A Deck of Spells: Hoodoo Playing Card Magic in Rootwork and Conjure - Softcover

Charles Porterfield; Christy Porterfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097196128X ISBN 13: 9780971961289

Publisher: Lucky Mojo Curio Company, 2015

Synopsis

Playing cards have a rich and mysterious history that is now revealed to you! Generations of rootworkers and hoodoo practitioners have carried cards with them to see the future and change the present. Professor Porterfield brings A Deck of Spells to the table for all to see. Learn the origins of playing cards and how to use them in your magical work -- with more than 100 spells, charms, and authentic old-time divination methods! This book brings back to the fore the old art of using playing cards in magical spells, long found in European folk magic and in Black American hoodoo. Also provided are several methods for reading cards -- and a hundred spells with playing cards. Jam-packed, valuable, and an eye-opener, this book is destined to change the way newcomers work in hoodoo by capturing for them the essence of an old, traditional methodology. Illustrated with examples of the actual written-on playing cards used by Professor Porterfield in the book.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Charles Porterfield is an Old Testament, old-school reader and rootworker and a proud member of Missionary Independent Spiritual Church. A natural man, he specializes in men's issues and the Biblical aspects of hoodoo. Texas born and raised, he lives with his wife, children, grandchildren, and three cats.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lucky Mojo Curio Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 097196128X
• ISBN 13: 9780971961289
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Catherine Yronwode
• Illustrator: Charles Porterfield, Unknown Artist For Firelite Fortune Teller, L. M. Garrity, Unknown Artist For Bicycle Playing Cards, Deacon Millett