Voodoo and Hoodoo: The Craft as Revealed by Traditional Practitioners by Jim Haskins

Jim Haskins's Voodoo and Hoodoo is a classic popular introduction to African American folk magic in North America, drawing on the accounts of traditional practitioners, the hoodoo doctors, conjure workers, and root doctors who served their communities. Haskins traces the traditions' African roots and their life in the United States, and gathers a wide range of the spells, formulas, and practices that were shared with him.

A readable entry point rather than an initiatory text; the living traditions it describes carry their own teachers and context.