Compare And Contrast Hoodoo And Witchcraft

Hoodoo and Witchcraft are two of the many branches of practices of magic. Both coincide in various ways, especially since both are common folk magic practices. Hoodoo and Witchcraft are practiced today still(The Truth About Witchcraft Today) to assist on love, money, luck and success. They have comparable rituals, spells, and ideas, but a common clear-cut disagreement between the two is that Hoodoo does not believe in Karma while Witchcraft profoundly believes in the idea. Folk magic or in this example, witchcraft, is “...generally of a practical nature, meant to address the common ills of the community: healing the sick, bringing love or luck, driving away evil forces, finding lost items, bringing good harvests, granting fertility, reading

Hoodoo is also a type of folk magic that commenced as a practice to seek guidance from their ancestors, more notably that ancestry is very important in Hoodoo especially for communicating. The difference is that while Witchcraft focuses on common aspects and problems, Hoodoo is what “...spiritual practice revolves around the natural power of the earth and its spirits and like America itself draws its influence from a wide-range of cultures,” (theconjureman) “...practices in that they held faith in the power of a spirit-world and its interconnectedness to this world through a medium of spirits, deities, and the spiritual power of natural materials like herbs, bones, roots, and minerals.” Rather than practicing on the practical, Hoodoo focuses on the spiritual side of folk

They believe on what is self imposed is the outcome of their action. They instead believe on what you do have immediate consequences as everything is interconnected. Karma is simply an idea on the outlook of life which is reflected on Witchcraft strongly. Hoodoo does not believe in it as mentioned before as they do not see the things that may happen recognized as Karma but rather your consequences. The world of Magic is vast and there are numerous different practices alike and different. Witchcraft and Hoodoo are occult practices and heavily manipulate about the use of magic and the supernatural. They are alike in various ways, but they are different for the reasons as they have different perspectives on a certain idea or lifestyle from one