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Mojo bag

A mojo bag (/ˈmoʊdʒoʊ/), in the African American spiritual tradition called Hoodoo, is an amulet consisting of a flannel bag containing one or more magical items. It is a "prayer in a bag", or a spell that can be carried with or on the host's body. Alternative American names for the mojo bag include a toby, lucky hand, nation sack, conjure bag, and a…

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related to Music · 35
Mojo bag → African American, African Americans, Ann Cole, Arkansas, Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues, Auntie Caroline, Auntie Caroline's, Blues, Come On, Foster, Got My Mojo Working, Hoodoo, Hoodoo Man Blues, Hoodoo Woman, In, In Robert Johnson's, Jerusalem, Johnny Temple, Junior Wells, Lightening Hopkins
related to Uses of mojo · 32
Mojo bag → African, African American, African American Christians, African Americans, After, American Civil War, Another, Black, Christian, Christian God, Christianity, Church, Conjurers, Dr, Every Sunday, For, God, He, Holy Oil, Hoodoo
related to Making a mojo · 29
Mojo bag → African, African American History, African Americans, Africans, Bakongo, Biblical, Central Africa, Congo, Culture, Democratic Republic, Enslaved, For, Gabon, Historians, Hoodoo, However, Ingredients, Most Southern-style, National Museum, Native American
related to American adaptation · 25
Mojo bag → African, African Americans, Africans, American Protestantism, American South, Americas, Angola, Atlantic, Bakongo, Black, Certain, Christian, During, Even, Gullah Jack, Hoodoo, However, Jesus, Kongo Christianity, Native American
related to Central African influence · 14
Mojo bag → African American, American Hoodoo, Bakongo, Congo River, Hoodoo, In, Mojo, Nkisi, Spirits, The, The Bakongo, The Nganga, United States, When Bakongo
related to history · 5
Mojo bag → Because, Central, Historians, The, West Africans
is a · 1
Mojo bag → prayer cloth

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Mojo bagis aprayer cloth0.90text
minkisiinstance ofHistorians and archeologists found Kongo related artifacts at the African Burial Ground0.80text
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the Bakongoinstance ofThis practice originates among Central African peoples0.80text
who adapted the practice of nkisi into the creation of theinstance ofThis practice originates among Central African peoples0.80text
the use of various crystals in the creation of mojo bagsinstance ofAfrican American practitioners from the Millennial and Gen Z generations are incorporating new techniques0.80text
using tarot cards for divination to consult with spiritinstance ofAfrican American practitioners from the Millennial and Gen Z generations are incorporating new techniques0.80text
alcoholinstance ofwith a liquid0.80text
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waterinstance ofwith a liquid0.80text

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