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hoodoo
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hoodoo
1. a variant of voodoo
2. (in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock


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The character suffers a fatal heart attack while following Mama Day's instruction to enter a chicken coop and bring back the unidentified cure for Cocoa, herself suffering illness brought about by the evil rootwork of a jealous woman.
This approach is perhaps her greatest accomplishment because it demonstrates how Vodou, conjure, and rootwork are such an integral part of the American experience.
Blending fuzzy, sister-girl friendly pablum, with down-and-dirty practicums, Rootwork is a slender, cheerfully, loopy self-help book for the spiritual tourist in your life.
 
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