Draft:Hoodoo divination

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Declined by Sulfurboy 46 days ago. Last edited by Bobby Cohn 45 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: I've removed the content from the draft, if it is to be re-added, be sure to adequately attribute the writing, see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thanks. Bobby Cohn 🍁 (talk) 13:50, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Comment: .jp site noted as a copyvio was actually copying us, from Hoodoo (spirituality), for which this page is a ~90% match. That effectively makes this a duplicate article. ASUKITE 13:46, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Comment: 1. Please consider adding a MOS:SEEALSO section. 2. Please consider adding Help:Categories. 3. The article is currently a WP:listicle of methods that does not provide the history or legacy of hoodoo divination as a whole. CopyleftEverything (talk) 03:39, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Various methods of divination have been used by African-American rootworkers within the Hoodoo tradition throughout the history of the USA.

Methods of divination

Dominoes

Rootworkers also divine with dominoes.^[2]

Dancing dime

A dancing dime is a device meant to diagnose maladies caused by Hoodoo. The root doctor would boil an object which was typically a coin, but preferably a silver dime. Slugs and other coin-like objects were also used.^[a] Upon movement of the object, the meaning of the movement is discerned by the root doctor.^[3]

Notes

↑ Substitutions occured due to the difficulty of acquiring silver dimes by enslaved people.^[3]

References

↑ Brown, William Wells (1847). Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself. Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill. pp. 91–93.
↑ Hazzard-Donald 2013, p. 56, 92.
1 2 Hazzard-Donald 2013, p. 206.

Bibliography

Hazzard-Donald, Katrina (2013). Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09446-0. JSTOR 10.5406/j.ctt2ttfqm. Retrieved 19 June 2026.

Traditional African religion portal

External links

The Cybernetics of Hoodoo Divination: Analog-Digital Technologies of the Self and Conversions of the Soul

Category:African-American cultural history Category:African Americans and religion Category:Folk religions Category:Folklore of the Southern United States Category:African-American culture

[4] Substitutions occured due to the difficulty of acquiring silver dimes by enslaved people.^[3]

[1] Brown, William Wells (1847). Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself. Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 25 Cornhill. pp. 91–93.

[FOOTNOTEHazzard-Donald201356,_92-2] Hazzard-Donald 2013, p. 56, 92.

[FOOTNOTEHazzard-Donald2013206-3] 1 2 Hazzard-Donald 2013, p. 206.

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