https://hoodoosociety.com/altar daily 0.75 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601488137858-AXUTD3S895Z7NZ9VD9OX/https___www.history.com_.image_MTY3OTgwNTYxNDc2ODg3ODI1_harriet_tubman_loc_54230a.jpg The Altar - Harriet Tubman Revolutionary Rootworker Conjurer Born in Maryland as Araminta Ross, she later took the cover Harriet Tubman as her freed name. Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom, helped several others escape to freedom, used rootwork during her time as a nurse in the Civil War, and helped to free hundreds of others during the raid on Combahee. Harriet Tubman is honored as an elevated ancestor of the Hoodoo tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601489305249-AX93W0NXR1OB91XX0W2X/021420_FrederickDouglass.jpg The Altar - Frederick Douglass Orator Conjurer Born in Maryland, Frederick Douglass is a famed abolitionist that spoke adamantly against slavery once he escaped from it. Douglass used a root for his protection while enslaved as well as during his journey to escape from slavery. Frederick Douglass is an elevated ancestor in the Hoodoo tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601489534731-PBXYHEDRM9VJAZU0OP7B/benjamin-bannekerjpg.jpg The Altar - Benjamin Banneker Scientist Inventor Astrologer Benjamin Banneker, born in Maryland, was a famed astrologer, farmer, and mathematician. His almanacs provided insight about the relationship between the earth and the sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/8510e6f3-380c-44e3-8bf8-da01e27293ce/john+henry.jpg The Altar - John Henry Road Opener Folk Divinity of Technology and Labor John Henry was a steel-driving man, said to have beaten the ability of a steam drill with just two hammers in his hand. The hero making legend of John Henry was born in the Tidewater and Appalachian areas of the Chesapeake Region. Although historians vary on where the tunnel of his story occurred, they agree that it took place in either the central eastern parts of West Virginia, or the central western parts of Virginia, where the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was being built. John Henry is an elevated legend and folk divinity in the Hoodoo tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/e0f48218-2de3-4f5b-a1a0-ade6e27e0e58/agnes+kane+callum.jpg The Altar - Agnes Kane Callum Genealogist Ancestral Investigator “Agnes Kane Callum is a distinctive genealogist and front-runner on African American history in Maryland. Kane has worked relentlessly to chronicle her family lineage and the history behind slavery in St. Mary's County, inspiring others to do the same. A lifetime resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Kane's work in the fields of genealogy and history have resulted in the preservation of a crucial aspect of Maryland's history that remained unstudied. Kane's contributions to the history behind the State of Maryland is massive, and her developments in genealogy have affected those all over the nation.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/c13a544b-41a7-4f87-a3c2-490871083754/Gladys+Marie+Fry+.jpg The Altar - Gladys Marie Fry Folklorist Story Holder Gladys Marie Fry, born in Washington D.C., was a trailblazing folklorist. Her work includes helping to interpret archeological finds of Hoodoo in the Chesapeake area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/0af1795f-16ac-4ccd-ba6a-45089f6dd670/Gloria_Richardson_and_protestors_facing_National_Guard_troops_Cambridge_Maryland_ca_1963.jpg The Altar - Gloria Richarson Freedom Fighter Civil Rights Movement Activist “Richardson was the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside the Deep South. In 1962, she helped organized and led the Cambridge Movement on Maryland's Eastern Shore with sit-ins to desegregate restaurants, bowling alleys and movie theaters in protests that marked an early part of the Black Power movement.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/d4ae54c5-d4f7-46b6-9e83-2d89abf08bf6/1D65BBD8-B651-4941-920D-C1370876F206%2B%281%29.jpg The Altar - James Hemings Culinary Innovator Entrepreneur James Hemings (brother of Sally Hemings) was born in Charles City County VA. He died a free man in Baltimore City. Hemings, a classically trained chef who also inherited AfroChesapeake culture, innovated many of the popular foods we see in Black American / American foodways. There are no verified images of Hemings (often a painting of Hercules Posey is used as a stand-in image for Hemings). We honor the Hemings aesthetic with food, as we have done NOURISHING COMMUNION: AN AFROCHESAPEAKE FEAST IN THE CULINARY LINEAGE OF JAMES HEMINGS. https://hoodoosociety.com/hoodoo daily 0.75 2026-05-15 https://hoodoosociety.com/community daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1588297178962-VCCSB5VHTZCCP9OLXDPC/hoodoosite.jpg What we do - Chesapeake Conjure Society is not a coven. Nor is it a Spiritual House or place where you can be initiated. It’s quite literally a Community, an intergenerational one. We come together to dance, eat, drink, pour libation, set ritual, give reverence to nature, honor our ancestors, learn, teach, and do activism work that’s grounded in spirituality. You can belong to an Ile, Spiritual House, Coven and still be a part of this Community. There are no competing obligations, show up to one of our events with cool and sweet intentions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1588300524275-2I2RMICSD3P9478B388Q/20190914_175420.jpg What we do - Twerk In The Trees A Black Witch Cultural Event Series where we meet in green spaces to twerk, whine, belly dance, meditate, and be safe with one another. This event explores ecotherapy and forest bathing, then combines it with sacred movement workshops and Black Spiritual Tradition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1588296727856-DSS4ZBPL9FRZSZ09OD89/DSC02137.JPG What we do - #SayHerName Ancestral Elevation A Black Femme Centered Ancestral Elevation event for Black Women and Girls who have fallen due to systemic misogynoir. This event focuses on community education, collective grieving and ritual. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/fbfa1a50-204d-4c63-a1e2-7ad1633e9106/Screen+Shot+2022-11-01+at+9.17.34+PM.jpg What we do - Hoodoo 101 Teach-Outs Our local community taps on us to support their events with public Hoodoo 101 Teach Outs. We provide hands-on Hoodoo, Altar Building, Ceremonial, Historical, Ethnoecological, and Rootwork learning to African American communities in the Chesapeake area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/b56d4048-ab02-4888-bddb-18a6c2aa3a58/CCS+2021+Juneteenth+Ringshout+21.jpg What we do - Juneteenth Sunrise Ringshout Every June 19th at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, we support Linnea Holt, and a local Orisha community, for a sunrise soiree and Ringshout to celebrate Juneteenth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1588630887977-44FGSIK7XAMBY44UWWK5/hoodoo%2Bcememtery.jpg What we do - Working with the Dead in Black Cemeteries Our work with local Cities of the Dead aims to assist already established efforts to advocate for, clean up, and perform ancestral and spirit engagement for often socially neglected burial grounds that make up historically Black graveyards. We gather stories, pour libations, and decorate gravesites as called. This works also leans into genealogy and family tree building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1615044430095-432AJACEWQJ4I1WOPNA8/123322871_698504887537778_1666405381299203488_n+%281%29.jpg What we do - All Saints Day All Saints Day, November 1st, is a Hoodoo celebration of the Dead. It’s a set holiday dedicated to cemetery work to honor the dead. We clean grave sites, pour libation, give offerings, and celebrate with song and dance at local, historically Black cemeteries. Learn more at hoodoosociety.com/allsaints https://hoodoosociety.com/about daily 0.75 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1588299288674-IZDMSLVFB24DMESPJWNH/blacks+of+the+chesapeake.jpg About CCS - Steaming crabs, Pope's Creek, Maryland, c. 1963 Blacks of the Chesapeake https://hoodoosociety.com/home daily 1.0 2024-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/66685d0d-23a4-458a-a8c3-907084ef2823/CCS+Colors-4.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601485469850-R76GA6T4LFJBVA583F3T/103069771_2852762884847251_204813699677978768_n.jpg Home Chesapeake Hoodoo has connection to deities and entities of all elements, it has STRONG connections to water spirits, Tobacco spirits, and spirits of metal and technology. Local elevated ancestors have fostered connections to local water ways, metal working and trains, tobacco, and resistance against systemic antiBlackness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601589311468-6JHQNKIA03ZAV6JEAUWE/black+family.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/1601487201072-CF4MQT3A6MY86EQ73IFV/hoodoo+society.jpg Home - Music & Movement Listen to our Hoodoo specific playlists: Waterbabies NeoHoodoo Manifesto https://hoodoosociety.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eab60affe662b00730aa30a/f907ec62-b342-4e41-be77-be144f558565/IMG_0222.jpeg https://hoodoosociety.com/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2026-06-23