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Recent reading roundup: St. Expedite, Hindu chromos in Haiti, iconography in retablos, domestic work in the segregated South
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Did you know there was a very active St. Expedite Society in Independence, Louisiana up until very recently? I didn’t. Read more at Folklife in Louisiana: “St. Expedito’s Role in South Louisiana Catholicism, in New Orleans and in the Italian-American Community near Independence, Louisiana,” by Karen Williams. Hindu deities on vodun altars: Rush, Dana. “Eternal Potential: Chromolithographs in Vodunland,”African Arts vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 60-75+94-96. Also helpful more broadly, imo, for any student of folklore/popular religion who’s ever encountered an argument about whether Abre Camino is “real hoodoo” or not, wondered what to think about the development of the seven-colors...
questions you’ve asked + most folks should just stop using the word “karma,” period
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Reminder: this is a mirror site for the blog. The actual blog with ongoing comments, archives, etc. is at seraphinstation.wordpress.com until I figure out how migrate it to the domain I'm paying for and not using, sigh... here's this post. Aaaand here we go again, folks. Some of this is part retread, but since the two-blogs thing is confusing AF and I probably need to edit and consolidate comments on the Big Lucky Hoodoo blogs (plural) and then just post the edited updates here as new posts… I guess I might as well just answer some of these again lol...
Rest in Peace, Raven
You were my favorite sweet girl. You were better than some people I know. I’m sorry I couldn’t save you. If there’s chicken reincarnation, you deserve the lap of luxury next time. If there’s chicken transmigration, I hope we meet again. See this post in complete context at the main blog.
internet
See this post in complete context at the main blog. In theory, our ISP fixed our broken line or whatever Friday evening. They also replaced our modem. In practice, the internet is now about as fast as me tethering my phone to get online. (That’s not very fast in case your phone is not an antique like mine.) And I randomly get booted off for random amounts of time. The cable that is supposed to be buried is not buried because of the road paving that has taken a year at this point. And they aren’t even done grading the...
still no internet
no internet yesterday or today. The joys of country living. (This happens every time we get a storm, which is one of the reasons I can only promise to ship once a week.) I can use my phone to answer (short) emails sent to seraphinstation@gmail dot com, and messages sent through the seraphinstation.com storefront’s contact form will route to that inbox. I can answer (short) Etsy messages sent through seraphinstation.etsy.com. I can put up item listings that use stock photos or existing photos (like most oils) if they don’t require much typing. While I can technically reply to facebook messages...