“I Don’t Do Horror, Ryan Coogler”

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her work, please stop reading this and go pick up her book—it fundamentally changed the way I think about American religion/s. For folks unfamiliar with this material, Conjure is African America folk magic, often for security and protection against violence. Chireau defines it as “the African American tradition of healing and harming.” Hoodoo is a synonym for Conjure; the terms are often used interchangeably

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