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work_5u2vevjrfbd6zjqvg67mxonwk4	Danielle Clausnitzer	Adorned by Power: The Individualized Experience of the Mojo Bag	2017	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4850	284	50	Adorned by Power: The Individualized Experience of the Mojo Bag Abstract: In America, no religion better exemplifies the power of the individual than Hoodoo. Keywords: Hoodoo; literature; American South; Frederick Douglass; Mojo Bags influences, primarily African Traditional and Diasporic in nature, practitioners of Hoodoo incorporated Hoodoo and argue that, similar to Douglass' experience with Mr. Covey, the power of these symbols is almost universally associated with the African-American population in the American South, Hoodoo Bags are also representative of the individualized "crossroads" culture from which Hoodoo emerges. In Conjure in African American Society, Jeffrey Anderson states that Additionally, African-American communities across the United States "still tell of Hoodoo's both empowering him and calming his master Mr. Covey, African-American Hoodoo practitioners Through the use of ritual objects such as Mojo Bags, slaves like Frederick that appeal to modern, African-American practitioners of Hoodoo. Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System.	./cache/work_5u2vevjrfbd6zjqvg67mxonwk4.pdf	./txt/work_5u2vevjrfbd6zjqvg67mxonwk4.txt