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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week's released page is a new Bibliography of Tasseomancy -- Booklets on tea leaf reading that were issued by Tea Companies, described and illustrated. Just send in your coupon -- a picture of Sir Thomas Lipton, and a 3-cent stamp!



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This week's Patreon sneak-peek page marks our embarcation into the long and complex work of scanning and transcribing all 50 of the 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt, commenting on their content, and uploading the finished pages to the Lucky W Amulet Archive for permanent display. The amount of behind-the scenes prep work that has gone into this seemingly simple project has been overwhelming, but we have our templates and work-flow in place now, and we hope for smoother (and more rapid) sailing in weeks to come. Today, Aries. Tomorrow ... The World!

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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are being underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

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This week's Patreon sneak-peek page marks our third foray into the long and complex work of scanning and transcribing all 50 of the 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt, commenting on their content, and uploading the finished pages to the Lucky W Amulet Archive for permanent display. The behind-the scenes prep work that goes into this seemingly simple project is both grueling and finicky, but we have our templates and work-flow in place now, and this week we were able to complete three web pages (a 50% increase over last week and a three-fold increase over our first week on the job). Gemini, Cancer, and Leo are now ready for our Patrons to enjoy!

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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are being underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free.



From 1910 through 1960, fortune telling machines were a common sight across America, from the Wate and Fate scale in your local Greyhound Bus station to the Exhibit Supply Company vending machine in the local bar that dispensed postcards showing hands of poker cards with their divinatory meanings. But it was Earl L. Crabb, the inventor of the Planetellus horoscope vending machine, who brought a real yearly horoscope for every sign of the zodiac to the small towns, the little restaurants, the taverns, and the tea shops of the American Midwest. Learn about this remarkable man, and see examples of the Planetellus horoscopes, this week at "Your Wate and Fate."

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#divination #folkmagic #yourwateandfate #psychicreading #crystalgazing #fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintageadvertisements #vintagelobbycards #vintagemovies

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Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week's Patreon sneak-peek page marks our fourth go-round in the rather complex task of scanning and transcribing all 50 of the 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt, commenting on their content, cross-linking them, and uploading the finished pages to the Lucky W Amulet Archive for permanent display. The behind-the scenes prep work supporting this seemingly cute project has become a bit overwhelming, as we decided to tear our earlier templates down and re-make the code, and we also bought a new, and supposedly better, scanner to replace our old one. After getting the new scanner up and running, we realized it was a TERRIBLE scanner. It could not distinguish denim blue from grey-blue or grey, and it perceived darker blue-green as black! Siva had already scanned several cards ahead and had cleaned up one card, front and back, when he showed me his first results -- and i was horrified! All that work -- and an entire new machine -- useless. The damned scanner was visually auto-tuning chromolithographic ink colours to a limited palette range of pre-sets. I hate it! I want to smash it with a hammer! Even a child should not be given a scanner this crappy to use as a pre-school toy! So Siva had to start scanning again, from scratch, while i forged on ahead of him with more text. But without the images, the text is nothing, of course, so we only have one card for our Patrons tonight, and getting it online was stressful and wearisome as Hell. Between that unexpected glitch-and-fix and our ongoing care for the shop cat, Boots, who is convalescing in the downstairs bathroom, we are running behind this week. We hope to get back on track next week. Virgo is now ready for our Patrons to enjoy!

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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are being underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week The Mystic Tea Room brings you one of those surprises that you get when you support a creative accumulator with Gemini Rising on Patreon -- an update to the USA Trains Billboard Reefers Checklist, featuring the artistry of Charles Ro. Eighty-thousand people have viewed this page since it first went online and now it has been updated with dozens more descriptions and illustrations!



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This week's Patreon sneak-peek page marks our fifth dip into the intricate project of scanning and transcribing all 50 of the beautiful 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt, commenting on their content, cross-linking them, and uploading the finished pages to the Lucky W Amulet Archive for permanent display. The preparation that underlies this work is ongoing, but we have put last week's scanner woes behind us and are working at a nice clip now. I have transcribed, coded, and annotated all of the Zodiac talisman texts and Siva is busily cleaning up their scans while i forge ahead into the upcoming 38 texts that describe the gorgeously rendered chromolithographic illustrations that comprise the bulk of the card set of precious amulets from the British Museum.



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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are being underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of blues lyrics and hoodoo. This week i have a new song transcription for you from my "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" collection, in which i document African-American hoodoo folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century blues lyrics. This week we travel back to 1927, to hear about a famous hoodoo drug store in Helena, Arkansas. And, to make it more fun, an MP3 audio file is included so you can sing along with the great piano player Arnold Wiley and his sister Irene.



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#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #hoodoodrugstore

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Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week's Patreon sneak-peek page presents our sixth pass through the scanning, cleanup, and text transcriptions of all 50 of the resplendent 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt depicting a selected set of precious amulets from the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated the final three Zodiac talisman texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up the images. As we work on each card, we are also cross-linking these miniature chromolithographic masterpieces to other Lucky Mojo pages on astrological folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are available for Patreon members now -- and next year the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive. Next week we will take a one-week break from this project and thereafter we will make three uploads of these cards and one surprise page per month until the Lucky Charms cards are finished.

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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

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This week's Patreon sneak-peek page consists of a second collection of memories and sketches spanning many years of my life. I never planned to write about myself, but when people ask me questions, i reply, and the electrons have just piled up on my hard drive over the years. This material has not been formally published until now. At the present it is intended to be seen by my Patrons only, and it may never reach the public. I dedicate it to Fred Burke and Ignacio Ceja, two long time supporters of my writing.

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"Experiments in Autobiography Two" is hosted at "Your Wate and Fate" because it has no domain of its own. You can see the public-facing portions of "Your Wate and Fate" here:

http://yourwateandfate.com

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination.



The 20th century was a time when lucky tokens, pocket pieces, and mascots were manufactured in vast quantities and given out to customers by companies of all kinds. Everyone believed in luck in those days, and these talismans, often called "Good Luck Coins," although they had no monetary value, were carefully saved by the folks who got them. I have collected such exonumia for more than 50 years, and a couple of decades ago i put a few samples up for show at my Lucky Mojo site. This week i am sharing another batch of them, with commentary.

Find the updated page now at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/goodluckcoinsandtokens.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $8.00 per month:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

#exonumia #yourwateandfate #luckytokens #pocketpieces #goodluck

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Lucky W Amulet Archive: Lucky Charms on Wills's Cigarette Cards in 1923: Tier 3 AUGUST 7th, 2024

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This week my Patreon supporters receive a preview of our seventh pass through the scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the much loved 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These antique trading cards showcase a selected set of the rarest and most precious talismans in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated the first four of the 38 ancient amulet texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their glorious chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, we also cross-link these miniature masterpieces to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

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"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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#cigarettecards #amulets #charms #talismans #tradingcards #luckycharms #folkmagic #abracadabra #abraxas #ankh #caduceus #britishmuseum

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. More Crystal Balls are rolling your way -- pitched by Wizards, Gypsies, Swamis, and Witches -- as "Your Wate and Fate" presents Crystallomancy in Art! From magazine ads to comic books, from beer drinking to dry cleaning, from stage magic to the mystic tea room, the image of the crystal ball has captivated painters in all mediums and genres. For a couple of dollars a week, you will get a one-year exclusive sneak peek showcasing crystallomancy in art.



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#divination #folkmagic #yourwateandfate #psychicreading #crystalgazing #fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintageadvertisements #vintagelobbycards #vintagemovies

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We have passed the half-way point! This week my Patreon supporters receive a preview of our eighth installment (out of fifteen total) of our scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards present a selected set of the rarest and most valuable magical charms in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated the second four of the 38 ancient amulet texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their exquisite chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. Trade cards, not to be confused with trading cards, were elaborate business cards popular during the late 19th century. Using the chromolithography printing process, they bore colourful images, the name of the business, and, sometimes, text on the reverse. This week we showcase the "U. S. Coins and Currency" trade cards printed by W. W. Chew of Philadelphia and marketed by John W. Roberts of San Francisco in 1881.



Find the updated page now at:
https://luckymojo.com/1881uscoinsandcur ... wchew.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons for as little as $8.00 per month:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

#exonumia #amuletarchive #luckytokens #pocketpieces #goodluck #tradecards

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We are here again with four more wonderful web pages sponsored by my Patreon supporters who will receive a preview of our ninth installment (out of fifteen total) of our scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards present a selected set of the rarest and most valuable magical charms in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated the third set of four of the 38 ancient amulet texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their exquisite chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week in "Leaves from the Root Doctor's Garden," i am disclosing the recipes for a wonderful group of traditional herbal medicines that came to light in 1953 when the United States Food and Drug Administration destroyed a shipment of nine different herbal medicines from Father Francis's Herbal Remedies Co.



Go to:
http://herbmagic.com/Father-Francis-Her ... -1953.html

to find the newly public page.

This page is part of the Herb Magic web site at

https://herbmagic.com

Also, please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#herbmagic #herbmedicine #herbalmedicine #herbalism #herbs #rootwork

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It has been a while since we have enjoyed the hot tea, oyster sandwiches, fresh spinach, and home-made apple pies of the cozy tea rooms of yesteryear, so today i return again with pleasure to Vintage Tea Menus and Cookbooks -- a graphic selection from all over the USA, each one accompanied by a descriptive caption. A sample page of a mere four menu covers is online for the public already, and today's new images will eventually be on display at the Mystic Tea Room web site for every tea lover and tea leaf reader to enjoy, but my Patrons, who pay just $8.00 per month to support my work, will have access to the updated and enlarged page one full year before the public does.

"Tea Room Menus Updated" is online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for your support. The public will not view it until August 28th, 2025, at which point it will be open to all, as a souvenir of times gone by.

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The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://mystictearoom.com

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cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintagetearooms #vintagemenus #vintagecookbooks

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination.



Once more we have updated our popular web page on 20th century lucky tokens, pocket pieces, and mascots from the 20th century. These coin-like objects were manufactured by custom mints in brass, bronze, or copper, and some of them were gilded. Later examples were stamped of aluminum, when that became a cheaper metal than brass. They're given to customers by companies and to voters by politicians, as fancy calling cards. Many people wanted luck, especially during the Great Depression, and although they had no monetary value, these talismans, called "Good Luck Coins" by the public, were carried on the person, placed in the change pockets of wallets or purses, or thrown into change drawers by the folks who got them. I have collected such exonumia for more than 50 years and this week i am adding a new batch of them, with commentary, to the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

Find the updated page now at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/goodluckcoinsandtokens.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. In this installment of "Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog," we view a difficult collection of hoodoo beliefs and practices from 1891, compiled by an amateur folklorist whose racism is obvious, but whose information is unique and therefore important in terms of what it offers to modern historians of African-American folk-magic. Sara M. Handy wrote this piece in 1891, and despite its ugliness and errors, it still offers us a good view of the conjure practices of Black Americans in Virginia halfway between the end of slavery in 1865 and America's entry into the First World War in 1917. And, as always, i take care to unpack the antiquated terminology, correct the errors, and offer some insights into the life of the author.



NEGRO SUPERSTITIONS by Sara M. Handy
(Published in 1891)

Find it at:
http://southernspirits.org/Handy-Negro- ... -1891.html

This illustrated and annotated web page describes rural African-American omens, divination, and spell-work in the 19th century. Copies of the original article accompany the text.

The Southern Spirits web site includes material about hoodoo gathered from old books, magazine articles, newspapers, and fragments extracted from novels and short stories, annotated with interpretive and comparative notes. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!

http://southernspirits.org

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Four more educational and illustrative web pages have been sponsored by my Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of the tenth installment (out of fifteen total) of our scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards present a selected set of the rarest and most valuable magical charms in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated the fourth set of four of the 38 ancient amulet texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their exquisite chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $2.00 per week for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. This week's Patreon sneak-peek page is the "Days of the Week" (Die Tage der Woche") series S-689" by Liebig Beef Extract -- a lovely set of 6 chromolitho trade cards from 1905 that show the symbolism and attributes of the classical deities associated with the seven days of the week. We scanned and cleaned up the images and added a short history of the publisher, plus some genuine occult lore on planetary magic.



Go to:
https://yourwateandfate.com/Days_and_Go ... ch-Extract

to find the newly-composited public page, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#fortunetelling #planetarysymbolism #LiebigTradeCards #vintagegraphics #vintagetradecards #planetarymagic

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We're coming 'round the back stretch with Part 11 (of 15) of our set of educational and illustrative Lucky Charms web pages. We have four more pages this week, sponsored by my wonderful Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of the this installment (out of fifteen total) featuring our diligent scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards present a selected set of the rarest and most valuable magical charms in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated our fifth set of four of the 38 ancient amulet texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their exquisite chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the entire set will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of blues lyrics and hoodoo. This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" we travel back 100 years, to 1923, as i bring you another illustrated song transcription from my collection documenting African-American folk magic through evidence found in early 20th century song lyrics. Hazel Meyers describes the terror she felt when she dreamed about a graveyard and spoke to the gravedigger. Was it "only a dream" or was it a "true dream," a premonition of tragedy to come? As usual, an MP3 audio file is included so that you can sing along as you study the deep links between hoodoo and the blues.



Go to:
http://luckymojo.com/bluesgraveyarddrea ... eyers.html

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #divination #folkmagic #rootwork #graveyard #graveyarddirt#conjure

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We are at the 80% mark -- Part 12 (of 15) -- with four more pages from our illustrated and educational set of Lucky Charms, sponsored by my wonderful Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of this installment, featuring our diligent scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards are an archive of some of the best magical amulets in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated our sixth set of four of the 38 ancient talisman texts and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their delicate chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the full collection of 50 web pages and an introduction will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

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#cigarettecards #amulets #charms #talismans #tradingcards #luckycharms #tusk #cornucopia #frog #magicnails #britishmuseum

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Today i return with pleasure to Vintage Tea Rooms by Location -- in this case to the tea rooms of Italy -- with a gallery of very old postcards, dating back to before World War One, each accompanied by a descriptive caption. These images will eventually be on display at the Mystic Tea Room web site for every tea lover and tea leaf reader to enjoy, but my Patrons will have access to them one full year before the public does.

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The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!
http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and receive 4 new web pages per month, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron:
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Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintagepostcards

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Here it is -- Part 13 of 15 weeks of work, crafting four more pages in our colourful and educational set of Lucky Charms from around the world, sponsored by my patient Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of this installment, featuring our detailed scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards comprise a collection of some of the best magical amulets in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated our seventh set of four of the 38 ancient talisman texts, and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their stippled chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members right now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the full collection of 50 web pages of Zodiac amulets and Lucky Charms, plus an introduction to the set, will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview, and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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cat yronwode

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[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of blues lyrics and hoodoo. In this installment of "It's All Ephemera," i offer a "Lucky W Amulet Archive" page compiled from texts i first wrote and published in the usenet newsgroups alt.lucky.w and alt.magick in 2004, expanded and illustrated in 2023.



Find the page now at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/inscribedamulets.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:
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One more set to go! This week we have finished the 14th of our 15 weeks of work on the Lucky Charms trading cards issued by Wills's Cigarette Cards in 1923. This time the focus is on Asian magic, as we present five more pages in our colourful and educational set of amulets and talismans from around the world, sponsored by my patient Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of this installment, featuring our detailed scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards comprise a collection of some of the best magical charms in the collection of the British Museum. This week i have transcribed, coded, and annotated our eighth set of five of the 38 ancient talisman texts, and Siva has scanned and cleaned up their stippled chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members right now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the full collection of 50 web pages of Zodiac amulets and Lucky Charms, plus an introduction to the set, will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview, and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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#cigarettecards #amulets #charms #talismans #tradingcards #luckycharms #foodcharm #conchshell #dorje #tortoise #bookofcharms #britishmuseum

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of blues lyrics and hoodoo. In cataloguing articles for the Lucky W Amulet Archive, i have strayed at times from the intent conveyed by the name "Lucky W" -- for in addition to lucky charms and amulets, i have also included apotropaic or protective talismans, and also religious icons from many of the world's cultures. This week, our luck meanders into Roman Catholic veneration of one of the most beautiful apparitions of the Virgin Mary, namely, Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, Cuba. Here is an article i wrote in the year 2000, but never published on my web site, now fully illustrated, an offering of respect to La Cachita, Nuestra Senora de la Caridad del Cobre.



Find the page now at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/ourladyofcharityofcobre.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

#amulets #talismans #saints #gods #charms #petitions #hoodooshrinesandaltars

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We made it! We have finished 15 weeks of work on the Lucky Charms trading cards issued by Wills's Cigarettes in 1923. Tonight we completed the final five web pages to complete our colourful and educational set of amulets and talismans from around the world. This was a project 30 years in the making, and we are grateful that we got shoved into completing it by my patient and persistent Patreon supporters. They will receive a preview of this installment, featuring our detailed scanning, cleanup, text transcriptions, and annotations of all 50 of the classic 1923 "Wills's Lucky Charms" cigarette cards by William Thomas Pavitt and Kate Pitt Pavitt. These full-colour trading cards comprise a collection of some of the best magical charms in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. I have transcribed, coded, and annotated our ninth set of five of the 38 ancient talisman texts, in addition to the set of 12 astrological talismans we finished earlier this summer. Siva has scanned and cleaned up all of the stippled chromolithographic images. As we work on each card, i also write commentaries on these miniature masterpieces and cross-link them to other Lucky Mojo pages on world-wide folk magic. The finished cigarette cards are only available for Patreon members right now -- but next year, thanks to their financial support, the full collection of 50 web pages of Zodiac amulets and Lucky Charms, plus an introduction to the set, will open to the public for permanent display at the Lucky W Amulet Archive.

[PATRONS GET THE SECRET URL IN EMAIL ONE YEAR BEFORE IT OPENS TO THE PUBLIC]

"The Lucky W Amulet Archive" spotlights popular and folkloric charms, amulets, and talismans from all around the world and all eras. The web site has been online since 1994, and new pages are underwritten by my Patrons. They get a preview, and the public will see them in 2025. If you don't want to become a member, you can always check out what's already online at:

http://AmuletArchive.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

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#cigarettecards #amulets #charms #talismans #tradingcards #luckycharms #agate #eyeagate #evileye #antievileye #heitiki #tiki #grotesque #axehead #axe #arrow #arrowhead #britishmuseum

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week. In cataloguing articles for the Lucky W Amulet Archive, i have strayed at times from the intent conveyed by the name "Lucky W" -- for in addition to lucky charms and amulets, i have also included apotropaic or protective talismans, and also religious icons from many of the world's cultures. This week i am presenting one of the best known venerational images of the Roman Catholic faith, Maria Dolorosa del Monte Calvario. Here is an article i wrote in 2006, never before published on my web site, now fully illustrated, that tells the story of this beautiful depiction of Mary and how it entered the folk religions of Latin America and the Caribbean.



Find the page now at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/ourladymariad ... vario.html

The Lucky W Amulet Archive is a folkloric resource that contains hundreds of interlinked pages describing and illustrating amulets, talismans, lucky charms, and good luck pieces from all around the world and from all eras of history. It is a work in progress, and new pages are added on a regular basis at http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html

To support me on Patreon, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as Patrons:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

#amulets #talismans #saints #gods #charms #petitions #hoodooshrinesandaltars

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This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" my Patrons are getting a one-year Patreon exclusive illustrated and annotated transcription from my collection of 20th century blues lyrics about African-American folk magic. Walter Davis, who was born in Grenada, Mississippi, in 1911 or 1912, became a popular singer, songwriter, and piano player in Saint Louis and recorded more than 150 songs in his 23-year music career. This piece, "Root Man Blues," is a funny double entendre song about a travelling root doctor and the woman who just can't turn loose of his root. I have transcribed the lyrics, set forth an explanation of what they mean, and with my husband's help, this has been accompanied by photos, a label shot, and an MP3 audio file to delight my patrons, who have a one year exclusive on this new web page, in gratitude for their financial support of my work as a documentarian of folklore, folk magic, and fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site is here:

http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only ... until October 28, 2025.

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for just $8.00 per month -- four weekly pages at a mere $2.00 each. Your support keeps me writing, and i thank everyone who has helped me with this source of funding since January 2021 at
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
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and on Instagram at
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Thanks to my amazingly supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #sexandhoodoo #bluesandhoodoo #conjuredoctor

[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read -- and so, this week, i offer you ... "Dolls and Effigies in Hoodoo"



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/dolls.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

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#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #harryhyatt #folklore #folkmagic #photopsychometry

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Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo: ROOT MAN BLUES (Tier 3 NOVEMBER 7th, 2024)

This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" my Patrons are getting a one-year Patreon exclusive -- and illustrated and annotated transcription from my collection of 20th century blues lyrics about African-American folk magic. Thomas A. Dorsey, well known as "The Father of Gospel Music" had an earlier career as Georgia Tom Dorsey, a blues singer, composer, and pianist. As Thomas A. Dorsey he wrote inspirational songs like "Take My Hand, Precious Lord," but as Georgia Tom he wrote some of the cleverest double entendre blues ever recorded, songs in which surprisingly sexual imagery was thinly veiled or "coded" in innocent-seeming metaphors. This week's song, the original version of "Root Man Blues" from 1931, is presented in the form of a dialogue between Georgia Tom as a hoodoo root doctor and his female client, voiced by the mysteriously pseudonymous singer Kansas City Kitty. Georgia Tom tries to sell Kitty a Georgia Jumpin' Root, but she turns it down and selects a Louisiana Crooked Root to chew instead. I have transcribed the lyrics, set forth an explanation of what they really mean, and prepared extensive (and i mean EXTENSIVE!) side-notes concerning the true identity of Kansas City Kitty. With my husband nagasiva's help, the article is accompanied by photos, a label shot, and an MP3 audio file so you can sing along. This project is being previewed by my patrons, who have a one year exclusive on every week's new web page, in gratitude for their financial support of my work as a documentarian of folklore, folk magic, and fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site is here:

http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only ... until November 7, 2025.

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for just $8.00 per month -- four weekly pages at a mere $2.00 each. Your support keeps me writing, and i thank everyone who has helped me with this source of funding since January 2021 at
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
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and on Instagram at
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Thanks to my amazingly supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #sexandhoodoo #bluesandhoodoo #conjuredoctor

[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read -- and so, this week, i present "Railroad Magic: Trains and Tracks," the first of four installments on Magical Train Action, this time comprising an illustrated overview of how to work with railroad ties, tracks, journal boxes, freight cars, and flat cars to change your life and those of your enemies and friends.



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/railroadmagic.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #folklore #folkmagic #railroads #tracks #magicspells #learnmagic

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[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read -- and so, this week, for the second time the topic is "Railroad Magic." In "Railroad Magic No. 2", i present an illustrated overview of how to work with socks and railway cars to obtain that which you desire with respect to your enemies and friends. Along the way you will learn quite a lot about the structural workings of the old railways of the steam era.



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/railroadmagic.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #folklore #folkmagic #railroads #tracks #magicspells #learnmagic

Follow us on Instagram
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and
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[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" my Patrons are getting a one-year Patreon exclusive -- an illustrated and annotated transcription from my collection of 20th century blues lyrics about African-American folk magic. All of you (probably) know what it means to be jinxed -- but did you know that the first time this phrase appeared in a blues song was in 1924? Here is William Henry "Papa Charlie" Jackson to tell you all about the jinx and why he is leaving town with the "Salt Lake City Blues." Thanks to the help of my husband nagasiva, the article is accompanied by three photos of the man himself, a label shot, and an MP3 audio file so you can sing along. This project is being previewed by my patrons, who have a one year exclusive on every week's new web page, in gratitude for their financial support of my work as a documentarian of folklore, folk magic, and fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site is here:
http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only ... until November 21, 2025.

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for just $8.00 per month -- four weekly pages at a mere $2.00 each. Your support keeps me writing, and i thank everyone who has helped me with this source of funding since January 2021 at
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my amazingly supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #jinx #crossing #curses #saltlakecity

[CoralConjurer]

just subscribed!

[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" my Patrons are getting a one-year Patreon exclusive -- an illustrated and annotated transcription from my collection of 20th century blues lyrics about African-American folk magic. Today i am bringing you one of my favourite singers and guitarists, Brownie McGhee from Tennessee, who recorded a fine blues song about his lover's "Secret Mojo" in 1947, the year that i was born. Thanks to the help of my husband nagasiva, this article is accompanied by two portrait photos, two label shots, and an MP3 audio file so you can sing along, and i have also written a short biography of McGhee, whom it was my pleasure to see both in concerts and in coffee houses many times. This project is being previewed by my patrons, who have a one year exclusive on every week's new web page, in gratitude for their financial support of my work as a documentarian of folklore, folk magic, and fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site is here:
http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only ... until November 28, 2025.

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for just $8.00 per month -- four weekly pages at a mere $2.00 each. Your support keeps me writing, and i thank everyone who has helped me with this source of funding since January 2021 at
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my amazingly supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read -- and so, this week, for the second time the topic is "Railroad Magic." In "Railroad Magic No. 3", i present a detailed and illustrated overview on how to use shoes with moving freight trains to send unwanted people out of your life.



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/railroadmagic.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #folklore #folkmagic #railroads #tracks #magicspells #learnmagic #shoes

Follow us on Instagram
@catherineyronwode
and
@luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read -- and so, this week, for the fourth time the topic is "Railroad Magic." In "Railroad Magic No. 4", i have finished my illustrated overview on how to use foot tracks, socks, shoes, and soap to send unwanted people out of your life, bring lost lovers back, and drive enemies to their destruction on a freight train or passenger line.



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/railroadmagic.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #folklore #folkmagic #railroads #tracks #magicspells #learnmagic #shoes

Follow us on Instagram
@catherineyronwode
and
@luckymojocurioco

[catherineyronwode]

Hello everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



This week in "Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo" my Patrons are getting an illustrated and annotated transcription from my collection of 20th century blues lyrics about African-American rootwork. Today i offer you a treat from 1927, with Martha Copeland singing, Porter Grainger on piano, and the great Bob Fuller on clarinet, in a little number they called "Shootin' Star Blues." Martha is troubled by many omens and signs that foretell bad and good luck, so Grainger and Fuller accompany her with a melody that shifts from minor to major and includes some funny -- and spooky -- musical references. Thanks to the help of my husband nagasiva, this article is accompanied by three portrait photos, a label shot, and an MP3 audio file so you can sing along. I have also written short biographies of Copeland, Grainger, and Fuller, for those who love the musical end of things as much as the education in hoodoo. This project is being previewed by my patrons, who have a one year exclusive on every week's new web page, in gratitude for their financial support of my work as a documentarian of folklore, folk magic, and fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site is here:
http://luckymojo.com/blues.html

-- and when you get there, you will see a placard announcing this week's new page ... but you can't click on it unless you are a Patron, because it is for Patrons only ... until December 7, 2025.

After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, this material will be linked from the public-facing pages of the Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo site. In the meantime, my Patrons also have access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum and participate in discussions with me about my ongoing publications.

To support me on Patreon and make my new web pages possible, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron for just $8.00 per month -- four weekly pages at a mere $2.00 each. Your support keeps me writing, and i thank everyone who has helped me with this source of funding since January 2021 at
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode
and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my amazingly supportive Patrons -- you have made this project possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#blueslyrics #blueslyricsandhoodoo #hoodoo #folkmagic #rootwork #conjure #blackcat #blackcatbone

[Theredqueen911]

I signed up for the patrons page... But I think I used a different email than the one I signed up with for this forum... The email I signed up with for the patron page is theredqueen911@gmail.com...i signed up for the Reader status... Looking forward to the more secret part of this forum

[Theredqueen911]

@Nagasiva I need help with patron thing..if you could please ck you message request on Facebook I private messaged you the details

[catherineyronwode]

i will let him know.

[Theredqueen911]

Thank you!

[Theredqueen911]

Ok, I hate to be a bother...but...I did get into private forum but I can't click on patron only info ...like on the blues page...it has several articles listed for patron only and i can not access them ..do i need secret url? Can i get a email with all previous links or how does this all work .. I am a bit confused...first time doing patron...

Also i would like to apply to get into patron only forum in the mystic tea room .... how do I do that? Especially stoked to see that sites backrooms

Sincerely,
The Red Queen 911

[nagasiva]

Hi Red Queen,
I set your account Patreon so you should now be able to find the private area. I am still looking for your message to me in Facebook but haven't seen it. Post on my facebook profile and i'll find it and message you back. Thanks!

[Theredqueen911]

@Nagasiva

I posted a response under your top post... should be able to find me know also I friend requested you as well... thanks for your help

[catherineyronwode]

Hello, Theredqueen911 --

The secret URLs for Patrons-only pages at all of my sites -- Lucky Mojo Hoodoo, Lucky Mojo Blues, Lucky W Amulet Archive, Mystic Tea Room, Your Wate and Fate -- are sent to Patrons via email on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th of every month. By the time they open to the public, one year later, they may be edited, enhanced, or combined together into larger pages, and the Patreon URLs may be replaced with new, public URLs.

I think that nagasiva is in touch with you in Facebook. You and i are already Friends on Facebook and he just accepted your friend request. SUCCESS! And thank you for the financial support.

[nagasiva]

Red Queen, thank you for your persistence and outreach; i found you and set you correctly here in the forum as well as provided all the permissions you need and badge change, then confirmed you're slated for future links in email. i've made sure you were friends with Catherine and with me in Fb. All linked up!

[Theredqueen911]

Thank you so much . I know you are very busy so I really appreciate you taking the time to help me.

Sincerely,
The Red Queen 911

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week "Old Maine Tea Rooms" is due for release!



As winter draws in around us, my thoughts turn to hot tea, cookies, and the cozy tea rooms of yesteryear. Today i return with pleasure to Vintage Tea Rooms by Location -- namely the great state of Maine, USA -- with a gallery of very old postcards, each one accompanied by a descriptive caption. These images are now on display at the Mystic Tea Room web site for every tea lover and tea leaf reader to enjoy!

Go to the newly-revised page at:
https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Maine_Tea_Rooms

and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearoom #collectibles #gardenscaletrains #reefercars #refrigeratorcars #modeltrains

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[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free. This week "The 1965 Regency Fortune Cup" is due for release!



In keeping with the Winter theme of warm tea and tea-leaf reading, this week's offering is a genuine rarity, the Snowhite Regency Fortune Cup containing 52 playing cards and made by the Johnson Brothers Pottery of England for an extremely elusive couple named Verna A. and John W. Meredith, who copyrighted the cup in the U.S.A. and promptly disappeared. Cartomancy tea cups are not common, but this cup is so hard to find that in all my years of collecting, i have only seen it put up for sale twice, once in 2011 without a saucer, and once in 2017 as a complete cup and saucer set.

The Johnson Brothers pottery was among the world's largest manufacturers of table ware, but they never made another divination cup during the entire run of the company, from 1882 to 2015. My brand-new "Johnson Brothers" pottery company category-page and the heavily illustrated page on "The Fortune Cup" are online now for the public to view.

Go to:
https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Cate ... n_Brothers

https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/The_Fortune_Cup

and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintageteacups #fortunetellingcups #tasseomancy

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[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



When ladies got together to play bridge in the 1950s, what better side-play was there than reading one another's tea leaves? The Queen Anne Lady Luck tea cup, saucer, and sandwich sets by Shore and Coggings came in arrays of four -- a colour-coded set for each suit -- and half the fun was deciding whether to choose the Diamonds cup because you had questions about money, or because Diamonds rule Earth signs, or because your new cashmere sweater just matches the delicate leaf-green that edges the playing cards on the cup.

The Shore and Coggins pottery was in business from 1887 to 1966, but they only made one type of tasseomancy cup -- the Queen Anne Lady Luck range. Still, they have earned their right to a full history page at the Mystic Tea Room. My brand-new "Shore and Coggins" pottery company category-page and the heavily illustrated page on "Queen Anne Lady Luck" are online now for my Patrons, in gratitude for their financial support. The public will not view these two pages until December 21st, 2025, at which point they will be open to all. Join my Patreon team now and be the first to know all about the crazy history of fortune telling.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!
http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and receive 4 new web pages per month, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintageteacups #fortunetellingcups #tasseomancy

[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year, these pages are given to the public to read for free.



In June of 2023, thanks to the support of my Patrons, The Mystic Tea Room opened a "Bibliography of Books about Tasseomancy" to the public. That page joined an earlier MTR page on "Tea Company Booklets," which included pamphlets filled with information from tea growers about tea drinking and the tea industry, as well a few that described tea cup reading. This week i present a one-year first glimpse at another aspect of the booklet proposition, namely instructional "Pottery Company Booklets" issued by the china ware companies that manufactured tasseomantic cups. From Alfred Meakin and Aynsley to Wimsatt and Zarka, here are the collectible, colourful, and almost-impossible-to-find pamphlets that once accompanied the lovely astrological, cartomantic, numerological, and symbolic fortune telling cups of yore.

Go to:
https://www.mystictearoom.com/wiki/Pott ... y_Booklets

and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

#tealeafreading #teacups #tearooms #tasseomancy #MysticTeaRoom #tea #vintageteacups #fortunetellingcups

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and
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[catherineyronwode]

Hello, everyone, and thank you for supporting "It's All Ephemera"!



You can't have a tea room without tea, so this week we present an illustrated guide to the many varieties of Camellia sinensis, the tea plant, and the many traditional processes -- from fermentation and oxidation to smoking, curling, and bruising -- that go into making your favourite cup of tasseomantic goodness. This page will eventually be on display at the Mystic Tea Room web site for everyone to enjoy, but my Patrons will have access to it one full year before the public does.

[THE SECRET URL IS SENT TO PATRONS VIA EMAIL]

The Mystic Tea Room web site is dedicated to the traditional art of fortune telling by tea leaves, also known as tea leaf reading, cup reading, cup tossing, divination by tea leaves, tasseomancy, and tasseography. If you are not yet familiar with the public portion of the site, check it out!
http://mystictearoom.com

To support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and receive 4 new web pages per month, please go to "It's All Ephemera," where you can read my update posts and sign on as a Patron:
http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Follow me on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/catyronwode

and on Instagram at
https://www.instagram.com/catherineyronwode

Thanks to my wonderfully supportive Patrons -- you have made this web page possible.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

#mystictearoom #tea #teavarieties #comparisons #camellias #teablends #fermentation

[catherineyronwode]

"It's All Ephemera" is the over-arching name for my Patreon stream, and within that is the Patreon series i call "A Hoodoo Hand," which consists of new chapters of "Hoodoo in Theory and Practice," my massive and free online book about African American folk magic. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these chapters are made public for all to read. This newly-released web page -- "Marked Money" -- presents an illustrated overview on how to select, mark, dress, and deploy currency and coins for use in spells to bring you luck and wealth, both in commerce and games of chance.



Find it at:
https://www.luckymojo.com/markedmoney.html

Please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#hoodoo #rootwork #witchcraft #conjure #folklore #folkmagic #magicspells #learnmagic #currency #successsigil #markedmoney

Follow us on Instagram
@catherineyronwode
and
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[catherineyronwode]

Thanks to my Patrons, who contribute as little as $8.00 per month for an exclusive one-year sneak-peek behind the scenes, i am able to write a new web page every week on the history of folk magic and divination. After a year for my Patrons to enjoy, these pages are made public for all to read. This week's release is the first part of a set of comical numerological fortune telling cards published and machine-vended by the Mutoscope Company of Chicago, Illinois in the 1940s. Mutoscope, which began as a maker of coin-operated peep-show films, also provided pin-up and celebrity postcards which were marketed primarily in men's spaces, such as bars, pool halls, tobacconists, and liquor stores. Each Lucky Number card contains 6 digits for lottery play, a slightly risqué or misogynistic joke, and a burlesque cartoon. They sure don't make them like this any more!



Go to:
https://yourwateandfate.com/Mutoscope_N ... hine_Cards

to find the newly-released public page, and please consider supporting me on Patreon so i can keep on working on "It's All Ephemera!"

"Your Wate and Fate" spotlights popular and folkloric methods of fortune telling. The web site is filling up with articles that have been underwritten by my Patrons and are now open to the public. Check out what's new at:

http://yourwateandfate.com

Support me on Patreon for $8.00 per month and get a one-year preview of new pages and access to exclusive threads at the Lucky Mojo Forum:

http://patreon.com/catherineyronwode

Thank you, Patrons, for making this possible.

#fortunetelling #vintagegraphics #vintagearcadecards #luckynumbers #numerology #mutoscope #luckymojo

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