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2. Hoodoo (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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   Agricultural scientist George Washington Carver was called a root doctor (practitioner of Hoodoo who can treat illnesses with plants) by Black people because of his knowledge of using plants to heal the body. [199] Jim Jordan was the son of former slaves born in North Carolina and learned Hoodoo and conjuring from his family. He healed his ...

3. Mojo (African-American culture) - Wikipedia

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   Each person needs a different mojo. In traditional Hoodoo, if there are several people needing love, the root worker or conjurer created different mojos for each of their clients. One mojo created the same can not work for everyone. By the twentieth century, Hoodoo was culturally appropriated by outsiders to African-American culture to make a ...

4. Jim Jordan (conjure doctor) - Wikipedia

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   James Spurgeon Jordan (/ ˈ dʒ ɜːr d ən / JUR-dən; [1] June 3, 1871 – January 28, 1962) was an American conjure doctor and businessman. Born to former slaves in eastern North Carolina, he learned folk healing practices from his family.

5. Happy birthday to Root Boy Slim, the NC-born wild man of ...

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   So today, I resurrect his ragged memory to remind North Carolina that Foster MacKenzie III, aka Root Boy, was a bona fide Tar Heel born in the Blue Ridge Mountains. ... To me, Root Boy inhabits a ...

6. Where exactly is NC setting of ‘Where the Crawdads ... - AOL

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   Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...

7. Aunt Caroline Dye - Wikipedia

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   Aunt Caroline Dye was born Caroline Tracy in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her gravestone cites her age at the time of her death as 108 years old, which would put her birth year at 1810. [ 4 ] However, several US federal census forms in Jackson County from the year 1870 to 1910 estimate her birth year should be between 1843 and 1853.

8. When a North Carolina Colonel Shot This Utility Worker ...

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   Daraev was taking photographs of a telephone pole in Carthage, North Carolina, on May 3 for his utility company job. A U.S. Army special operations colonel who lives on that street accused Daraev ...

9. Stephen Robinson (root doctor) - Wikipedia

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   Stephen Robinson (born Stephany (or Stepheney [1] or Stephaney [2]) Robinson; 1885 – May 5, 1947) was an American root doctor.He came to prominence after his association with Minerva, one of the main characters in John Berendt's 1994 true-crime book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.