Quick Specs
- Format: Paperback (oversized, 8.5″ x 11″)
- Pages: 136
- Weight: 0.9 lbs
- Publisher: Missionary Independent Spiritual Church / Lucky Mojo Curio Company
- Year: 2019
- ISBN: 978-0996052368
The Sequel That Covers the Later Years of Hoodoo Heritage Festival Teaching
I carry the Red Folder because it represents a slice of Catherine Yronwode’s teaching archive. From 2014 through 2019, Yronwode distributed handouts and workshop flyers to attendees of the annual Hoodoo Heritage Festival in Forestville, California. The Red Folder collects those documents in a single oversized volume. That means you are holding six years of festival handout material in one place. The topics lean heavily into seership and divination: working with crystal balls, pendulums, and numerology as conjure tools. It also covers conjure spells for money, love, protection, and luck, along with cursing, break-up work, and hot foot tricks for driving off enemies.
The Red Folder is the direct sequel to the Black Folder. If the Black Folder documents the foundational period of the Festival workshops (2008 through 2013) with an emphasis on spiritual supplies, candle work, mojo hands, and the basics of conjure cookery, the Red Folder picks up where that one leaves off. It extends into more advanced terrain: the secrets of conjure cookery, candle magic with spell sigils and petition papers, and how to construct mojo hands, sachet powders, and packet charms from scratch. The two volumes function as a matched set, and readers who own both have a rare documentary record of Yronwode’s live teaching across more than a decade.
Yronwode is the founder of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company and the primary scholar behind “Hoodoo in Theory and Practice,” one of the most thoroughly sourced free reference works on African American folk magic. She draws on the Harry Hyatt fieldwork interviews, oral tradition, and her own decades of rootwork practice. The Red Folder reprints material she shared directly with festival attendees.
How to Use the Red Folder
Get the most out of this archive of Yronwode's Hoodoo Heritage Festival teaching materials.
- Read Sequentially or by Topic
Work through the folder from front to back for a structured overview, or go straight to the section that matches your current work – divination, candle magic, mojo hands, or conjure cookery.
- Cross-Reference with the Black Folder
The Red Folder is the sequel to the Black Folder. Reading both together gives you the full arc of Yronwode's Festival teaching from 2008 through 2019, covering foundational and advanced material side by side.
- Apply the Handout Format Directly
Each piece started as a workshop handout. Use them that way – read a section, then work the technique described. The action-first format makes it easy to move from page to practice the same day.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock the Red Folder as part of my hoodoo book selection. The paper is good, the binding holds, and the oversized format (8.5″ x 11″) means the handout material reproduced here is readable rather than squeezed down to fit a standard paperback trim.
One practical note: the Red Folder is a reprint collection, not a newly written book. If you are hoping for original long-form chapters, that is not what this volume is. What it offers is density and documentation: the workshop handouts from six years of festival teaching in one place, with Yronwode’s voice intact and unedited. That is a specific kind of value. Hoodoo is a living tradition, and I offer this book as an entry point, not a substitute for learning from practitioners and community. Pair it with the Black Folder by Catherine Yronwode for the complete two-volume set, and browse the full Voodoo, Hoodoo and Santeria books collection for additional titles in the tradition.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Red Folder collects Yronwode's Hoodoo Heritage Festival workshop handouts from 2014 to 2019. Topics include divination, seership, candle magic, mojo hands, conjure cookery, and petition paper work.
The Black Folder covers 2008 to 2013 and focuses on foundational supply and candle work. The Red Folder covers 2014 to 2019 with more emphasis on seership, divination tools, and advanced conjure techniques.
No, but owning both gives you the complete arc of festival teaching. The Red Folder stands on its own. It is the sequel and was designed to pair with the Black Folder, not require it as a prerequisite.
The folders are listed as required purchases for enrollment in Yronwode's course. They can also be read and used independently by anyone interested in Hoodoo study and practice.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet