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The Purpose Of Hoodoo's Religion

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Hoodoo was a secret religion (or folk magic) practice by West Africans. They used Hoodoo to cure diseases, for protection, and occasionally punishment. The purpose of Hoodoo was to allow people access to supernatural forces to improve their lives. Hoodoo is claimed to help people attain power or success ("luck") in many areas of life including money, love, health, and employment. Hoodoo is neither a religion, nor a denomination of a religion—it is a form of folk magic that originated in West Africa and is mainly practiced today in the Southern United States. Hoodoo is defined as a variation of Voodoo and it involved the existence of varying spirits that could be directed and controlled by humans. As in many other spiritual and medical folk

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