We're an honest batch of folks, and we're not interested in charging you ridiculous amounts of money for "haunted" things. We don't call stuff "haunted" in our tradition. If we invoke a spirit into a spell jar or bottle, we call it a pwen cho or point chaud (a 'hot point,' from the Haitian vodoun tradition). If we ritually consecrate an item, we call it consecrated, not "spelled." These are (sometimes minor) differences in terminology and ritual practice as well as worldview. If it makes you feel better to buy a ritual item ostensibly used in magickal ritual by an allegedly dead allegedly gypsy person, knock yourself out. But it's hardly necessary. Magick is a living tradition, and there are many dedicated and talented practitioners out there who are doing exactly what that allegedly dead allegedly gypsy owner of that allegedly haunted ring allegedly did.

Now, I've told you that this storefront is a commercial outlet, but it's important to be clear that the religious aspect of what we do is not commercial at all. Our temple and house members perform public work such as consecrations, healings, blessings, cleansings, and other spiritual work, but when we sell consecrated items, we're not selling the consecration. We're selling the item. We hold service for the house loa constantly, in appropriate ritual cycles and for special occasions when we work with a loa for a particular purpose. The art we make and the altar implements we consecrate are made in the spirit of love and devotion to the loa. So we're not "selling" you a consecration -- heck, if you were at a temple service, you'd get that for free. Nor do we "sell" blessings or, and let me emphasize this, initiations. We are sharing these works with the public that we create in a ritual environment which is part of our everyday lives, life paths, and works.

I got into exchanging money and spiritual items with the public almost by accident. I have made my own ritual oils and incenses for many years, and worked magic on behalf of myself and my friends and family. After a while, a friend would tell a friend, and I was getting requests from people who were essentially strangers for these things, and I was going broke giving my stuff away. So I started charging. I started offering some products and supplies on the internet in the early 00s, began offering them on ebay in 2002, and have had a store since 2007, and it's still here, which kind of blows my mind, 'cause a businesswoman I'm not.

Hoodoo in the Southeast, and indeed "New World" vodoun, are rich, living, and syncretic traditions. Our house probably has a greater emphasis on work with the faces of the Roman Catholic saints than many out there, coming as we do from the land where Catholicism, African diasporic religious practice, and African-American folk magick merged into the rich gumbo of practice that it is.