Voodoo is a more widely known version of the conjuring tradition most associated in the popular imagination with New Orleans, although the term "voodoo" or "hoodoo doctor" was commonly applied to root doctors in other parts of the South. The practice of "working roots" is familiar to many African Americans living in the South, though apparently not as commonly known today among whites. Root doctors are still common in the region and found in many rural areas of North Carolina. They use herbs, roots, potions,Īnd spells to help and sometimes to hurt recipients of their ministrations. Root doctors are the traditional healers and conjurers of the rural, black South.
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