Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour Archive: African American Christianity and Hoodoo

missnisha said...: This was a VERY enlightening show, especially for a Pagan woman like me. I have a KJV Bible at home, and it includes the Apocrypha. (I don't like my books abridged **smile**) There are some interesting verses I've read in those "lost" books--verses on the power of women, a lost part of Daniel that recorded the prayers that the "Three Children" sang as they were led into the furnace--that look to me to be of great use for rootwork. I have to say that your saying that everyone can use the Bible, whether or not they practice Christianity, was comforting. I reminded myself that lots of people use Hindu mantras or Buddhist mantras for practical means (job getting, romance, etc.) w/o the person ever intending to practice Hinduism or Buddhism, so people using the Bible in the same vein sounds sensible.; 4:09 AM
Anonymous said...: Oh I know that prayer, I heard a longer version:

Matthew Mark Luke and John
Bless this bed I lay upon
4 post around my bed
4 angles around my head
1 to watch and
1 to pray and
2 to bear my soul away.; 10:36 AM