Spirit In My Dolls: The Hoodoo Doll Handbook
In “Spirit In My Dolls: The Hoodoo Doll Handbook” Iyami Aje reminds the reader of a time when all of your toys were filled with spirit, back when you had an imagination. When you knew how to play and your thinking was limitless. Resurrecting the faith you had in objects way back then and tapping into your inner - child to show you that dolls are as magical as they have always been. “A doll is a doll”, she says. Iyami reintroduces you to doll magic as the strongest, the easiest to perform, feeling the most natural, and the most familiar. She presents the “voodoo doll” as the icon of African derived religion, changing the voodoo doll stereotype and offering you dolls as all purpose spiritual tools!
IYAMI AJE is a Hoodoo scholar, seasoned author, practitioner, student of all things, and The Hoodoo Doll Maker. She has made a name for herself in the spiritual streets as “The Hoodoo Doll Doula”, birthing the cutest, most magical hoodoo doll babies for clients all up and through the spiritual community. “I wrote this book because my community needed a Hoodoo doll guide book written by a real Black author and a real doll maker, ya know.”
In “Spirit In My Dolls: The Hoodoo Doll Handbook” Iyami Aje reminds the reader of a time when all of your toys were filled with spirit, back when you had an imagination. When you knew how to play and your thinking was limitless. Resurrecting the faith you had in objects way back then and tapping into your inner - child to show you that dolls are as magical as they have always been. “A doll is a doll”, she says. Iyami reintroduces you to doll magic as the strongest, the easiest to perform, feeling the most natural, and the most familiar. She presents the “voodoo doll” as the icon of African derived religion, changing the voodoo doll stereotype and offering you dolls as all purpose spiritual tools!
IYAMI AJE is a Hoodoo scholar, seasoned author, practitioner, student of all things, and The Hoodoo Doll Maker. She has made a name for herself in the spiritual streets as “The Hoodoo Doll Doula”, birthing the cutest, most magical hoodoo doll babies for clients all up and through the spiritual community. “I wrote this book because my community needed a Hoodoo doll guide book written by a real Black author and a real doll maker, ya know.”
In “Spirit In My Dolls: The Hoodoo Doll Handbook” Iyami Aje reminds the reader of a time when all of your toys were filled with spirit, back when you had an imagination. When you knew how to play and your thinking was limitless. Resurrecting the faith you had in objects way back then and tapping into your inner - child to show you that dolls are as magical as they have always been. “A doll is a doll”, she says. Iyami reintroduces you to doll magic as the strongest, the easiest to perform, feeling the most natural, and the most familiar. She presents the “voodoo doll” as the icon of African derived religion, changing the voodoo doll stereotype and offering you dolls as all purpose spiritual tools!
IYAMI AJE is a Hoodoo scholar, seasoned author, practitioner, student of all things, and The Hoodoo Doll Maker. She has made a name for herself in the spiritual streets as “The Hoodoo Doll Doula”, birthing the cutest, most magical hoodoo doll babies for clients all up and through the spiritual community. “I wrote this book because my community needed a Hoodoo doll guide book written by a real Black author and a real doll maker, ya know.”