Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
In the world of Kongo witchcraft, people don’t go to a “better place” when they die, but instead linger on as powerful spirits with their own appetites and agendas, the inhabitants of a hidden realm just as vast, bewildering and morally ambiguous as our own.
Like its better-known cousins Voodoo and Santeria, Palo Mayombe is one of the witchcraft-oriented religions which emerged when African tribal peoples were brought to the New World with the spread of the slave trade.
Jason Louv is a copywriter and self-proclaimed “magician” who published the influential anthology Generation Hex, a sort of postmodern guide to guide to magic for the MySpace generation. I’ve had it on my amazon wishlist for ages but never actually ordered it; now I’m glad I didn’t.
I say this because of a recent search which [...]
