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Category Archives: Voodoo
We’re Sunk
The King in Yellow, by Robert Chambers – This Gothic horror story from the 1890s is largely notable for being incorporated into H.P. Lovecraft’s mythology. The title is that of a play that exists within the universe of the book, but … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Book Reviews, Carribean, Catholicism, Characters, Christianity, Global Warming, Health, Judaism, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Neil Gaiman, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Santeria, Science, Sesame Street, Television, Terry Pratchett, Voodoo, Yoruba
Tagged ballad and dagger, candide, carcosa, caroll spinney, catherynne valente, demons, dr. pipt, galanika, good omens, h.p. lovecraft, hastur, horror, liquid of petrifaction, orishas, oscar the grouch, outlaw saints, pirates, rick riordan presents, robert chambers, the king in yellow, the past is red, voltaire, ys
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That Vodou That Yo Dou So Well
The Hollow Places, by T. Kingfisher – When a woman named Kara is going through a divorce, she moves in with her uncle, a conspiracy-minded man who doesn’t believe in evolution until he figures he needs to in order to … Continue reading
Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Dreams, Language, Magic, Mythology, Names, october daye, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Voodoo
Tagged a song below water, algernon blackwood, ambrosius aurelianus, bethany c. morrow, bigfoot, changelings, fairies, falconry, gargoyles, geoffrey of monmouth, hobby, horror, jane yolen, king arthur, lady of the lake, luidaeg, merlin, myrddin, night and silence, oberon, passager, racism, selkies, sirens, suffer a sea-change, t. kingfisher, tam lin, the hollow places, the quarter storm, the willows, the young merlin trilogy, veronica g. henry, vita merlini, vivien, wizards
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Get Off Your Ass
This might well be my last book review post of the year. I got an overview of the books I read in 2021 on Goodreads a few weeks ago, but I have no idea why they didn’t save it until … Continue reading
Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Hinduism, Korean, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Voodoo, William Shakespeare
Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aliens, anunnaki, apsaras, apuleius, aru shah, beware the grove of true love, bruto and the freaky flower, calamity juice, carlo collodi, carlos hernandez, chupacabra, cupid and psyche, dalgyal gwisin, demons, don quixote, donkeys, dushyanti, ellen d. finkelpearl, erzulie, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, ghosts, gilgamesh, graci kim, gum baby, isis, j.c. cervantes, kwame mbalia, miguel de cervantes, my life as a child outlaw, my night at the gifted carnival, nymphs, pandavas, paola santiago, paola santiago and the forest of nightmares, peter singer, pinocchio, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, shaggy man, shakuntala, sikander aziz, tehlor kay mejia, the adventures of pinocchio, the cave of doom, the cursed carnival and other calamities, the demon drum, the golden ass, the gum baby files, the initiation, the last fallen star, the loneliest demon, the road to oz, the winter long, tristan strong, urvashi, witches, yoon ha lee, zane obispo
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Froggy Kisses
The Princess and the Frog – Beth and I saw this back when it was in the theater, but I only wrote a little bit about it then. This was Disney’s return to hand-drawn animation after a few computer-animated features, … Continue reading
Ogoun? Oh, Go On!
I recently finished reading Robert Rankin’s The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag (I’ll have a review up later), which uses some of the major gods from voodoo in a plot involving personalities downloaded onto the Internet and private detective Lazlo … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Carribean, Mythology, Religion, Robert Rankin, Voodoo
Tagged haiti, haitian revolution, ogoun, ogoun badagris, st. james the greater, the dance of the voodoo handbag, yoruba
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