Hoodoo for Everyone: Modern Approaches to Magic, Conjure, Rootwork, and LiberationA beginners guide to an inclusive Hoodoo practice history, spellwork, folklore, and herbs Hoodoo is a folklore tradition that was created by and for enslaved African Americans in the southern United States. And before there were honey jars, red brick dust, and everything else you may associate with Hoodoo, there was the need to be free.