Hey Bays, we have something new for you. This week I'm putting out on to your next favorite

podcast, Magic in the United States. A podcast about the beautifully unseen religious, spiritual, and magical influences on everyday Americans.

Whether it's hoodu or spiritualism, Wicca or Korean shamanism, host Heather Freeman introduces

you to the amazing stories of various traditional magic practices

featuring interviews with historians, religious studies scholars, and actual practitioners.

This week I'm sharing season 1 episode 5, root work in the Great Migration,

Hoodoo's origin lies in resistance and survival, a practice developed by enslaved

black Americans during the Antibellum South.

Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Conj practitioners provided medical care and protection.

These practices continue to evolve under the continued injustices of Jim Crow and

moved north with black Americans during the Great Migration and they flourish to

this day foundational to many distinctly American practices from mixing peace water to crafting spell candles.

This episode features Yvonne Chirot, Tiana Lee, Mackiller and priestess Stephanie Rosebird.

Really hope y'all enjoy. Season 2 of Magic in the United States

drops May 7th and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

I was born in Monclaire, New Jersey and I lived in East Orange, New Jersey for the first six years of my life.

It was really wonderful because I was near my grandmother, my grandpa, my great-grandmother, my aunts and uncles and

cousins. And then we moved to Southern New Jersey, which was complicated to describe.

Priestess Stephanie Rosebird is a contemporary hoodoo practitioner.

She was six years old when her family moved to southern New Jersey,

which he says felt like a completely different world from the Jersey suburbs she was used to.

I'm going to say it was a rude awakening because I was called the N-word regularly and it was shocking to me because I had never heard that or

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