High John the Conqueror Charms & Rituals by Donna Rose

The High John register entire. Charms and rituals for the root's classic purposes.

Simple, direct instruction. The botanica pamphlet tradition's get-working style.

A counter classic. Donna Rose's long-selling guide to the great conjure spirit.

• Author: Donna Rose
• Format: paperback working guide
• Publisher: Original Publications; ISBN: 9798989114108
• SKU: BHIGJOH

High John the Conqueror stands at the center of Hoodoo's spirit lore: the unconquerable folk hero of African American tradition, recorded by Zora Neale Hurston, whose triumphant spirit the tradition locates in the root that bears his name, and whose help is petitioned across the classic registers, success at work, money matters, protection, and affairs of the heart. Rose's book belongs to the working literature of that world, the Original Publications counter-pamphlet genre whose plain instructions have introduced generations of practitioners to the tradition's methods: the charm assembled, the oil dressed, the petition worked at the crossroads.

We sell it as booksellers of a living tradition: the book presents its workings as its author teaches them, in the tradition's own petitionary idiom, and readers bring their own ethics to every working, as the tradition's serious teachers have always counseled. Its deeper instruction, and the tradition's own ethical debates, live with Hoodoo's teachers and modern texts, which pair naturally beside it.

1. Read it through once; the workings are short and the arc is quick.
2. Gather the root and oil first; the charms assume them at hand.
3. Work the simple charms before the elaborate rituals.
4. Bring your own ethics to each working, as the tradition's teachers counsel.
5. Follow it with the tradition's deeper texts; Rose is the doorway, not the house.

It reads in an evening and works for years, which is the pamphlet tradition's whole design.

• High John the Conqueror Oil with Root, 4 Dram: the book's central supply, bottled.
• High John Oil, 1 oz: the working bottle for the longer campaigns.
• Helping Yourself with Magickal Oils A-Z by Maria Solomon: the same shelf's oil encyclopedia.
• Deliverance! Hoodoo Spells by Khi Armand: the tradition's modern deep end.
• Green Cotton Bag, 3" x 4": the charm bag the book will have you filling.

Who is High John the Conqueror?

The unconquerable folk hero of African American tradition, recorded by Zora Neale Hurston, whose spirit the tradition works through the root bearing his name.

What does the book cover?

Simple charms, oils, and rituals in the High John register: the tradition's classic purposes of work, money, protection, and love, taught in the author's direct petitionary style.

Who is Donna Rose?

A longtime author of the Original Publications counter literature, whose plain working guides have introduced generations to conjure's methods.

Is it beginner-friendly?

Famously: the pamphlet style assumes nothing and gets the reader working immediately, with the tradition's deeper texts waiting beyond.

What ethics apply to the workings?

The reader's own, as the tradition's serious teachers counsel: petitionary magic is worked with honest purpose, and its debates live in the tradition's deeper literature.