SEASON 4 EPISODE 17: Dating A Witch Is Work

 For our finale episode I’m joined by my honey, Shan! We talk about her experience being adopted + connecting with ancestors, our experiences dealing with love and grief, and what it’s like to be in a relationship with someone who shares her time with spirits. 

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Ogun’s Internet:

Tik tok clip: @ supaan0va: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89NSNhJ/

https://thedlist.co.nz/newsfeed/the-disabled-man-who-changed-the-sex-toy-industry/

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Let’s really talk about the complexities of venerating and working with “white ancestors” and which people need to be prioritizing it before US. We get into the Black healing tradition of Vick’s Vaporub and how it was actually stolen from a Black woman, and why we should all be paying attention to the Caribbean island of Bonaire, right now.

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OGUN’S INTERNET: 

THREADS @ blactina 

BLACK BUSINESS:

Grace Bonaire Tiktok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@criticalgracetheory_/video/7601197608400440631⁠⁠

RESOURCES: 

⁠⁠https://apnews.com/article/climate-bonaire-netherlands-court-greenpeace-caribbean-island-c793ba6d63dd30a6dfb9c5cfa9f8452d⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/80952/the-netherlands-violates-human-rights-by-failing-to-protect-bonaire-residents-from-climate-crisis-court/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/130880-bonaire-a-history-of-slavery-a-present-of-social-inequalities.html⁠⁠

COD LIVER OIL

Link to Conjuring of America by Lindsey Stewart: ⁠⁠https://rep.club/products/conjuring-of-america?srsltid=AfmBOormpHAAao_nQwOWjNIhJlTpxeJ88j-hs-Fp9gE5OiyUuYpHXgl0⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-709/camphor#overview⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/eucalyptus-leaves#skin-moisturizer⁠⁠

Biddy Tarot Tarot Card Meanings: ⁠⁠https://biddytarot.com/tarot-card-meanings/⁠⁠

Aunt Myrtle Speak With the Elders  episode: ⁠⁠https://youtu.be/YtqpSOXHOBg?si=1a8G440gJNAD9sSN⁠⁠

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Esu is not the devil, Black women are the mules of the world, but it doesn’t mean we have no responsibility to address social issues and on top of that, the ginger ale ain’t got no ginger in it!!! Are we good?

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Episode Resources

Collective Conjure LA Event:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collective-conjure-wgabrielle-felder-dusah-wiseman-juju-bae-tickets-1981255209666?aff=oddtdtcreator

HBP Podcast ESU: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89K9xSH/

Ginger Health:

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/ginger-benefits

Story of Warren King: https://people.com/border-patrol-caught-camera-detaining-man-who-says-us-citizen-11831901

US citizens detained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgCy9ElOsE

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 14: Spirit Husbands Lay PIPE

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, (and D’Angelo’s birthday), time to cuddle up and talk about the fascinating pagan roots of Valentine’s Day, the overuse of binding rituals, viral Nigerian weddings, and how much ghost d*ck I was getting in 2019.

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Kalabari Wedding: https://www.tiktok.com/@soseriuzradio/video/7506242299186122040

Ijaw: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jSMC_V3Zru0

Lupercalia holiday: https://www.history.com/articles/lupercalia

Whoreible Decisions interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n50b8K3Zv74

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I’m not going to lie ya’ll, I’m venting alot because where we are as Black people in this time has me completely shook. We are now asserting that the transatlantic slave trade wasn’t real and claiming we don’t have African ancestry. IS EVERYBODY OK?

But we also talked about Ice Cube Voodoo Dolls, Hoodoo as Africana retention, and more about my book talk in Dakar.

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Juju Bae THREADS post: https://www.threads.com/@itsjujubae/post/DTGbbNElg_-?xmt=AQF0CI2PzXgnmeoIxG3cTumJOQoGTjMsHrkmIGTkYypsALbQpwJMTupo0ylyuc-BzzpL9HyW&slof=1

ICE Agent Article: https://www.fox8live.com/2025/12/17/ice-voodoo-doll-discovered-new-orleans-immigration-crackdown-continues/

Serer People: https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/serer.html

Wolof: https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/wolof.html

Chez Alpha Bookstore:

https://www.chezalphabks.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/chezalphabooks/?hl=en

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Detty December seems to have grown into a tourist trap marketed as a return home for Black Americans and a price hike for locals –while slave castles across West Africa (specifically Goree Island) may be overly over exaggerating its role in the middle passge for financial gain…what does it mean when tourism is centered on Black pain and how must we move forward with that knowing? 

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House of Slaves Debunk: https://www.hnn.us/blog/5969

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2005/02/13/islands-role-in-african-slave-trade-disputed/30772617007/

UNESCO world site: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/26/

Goree History: https://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0110

COD Liver Oil Bissap:

https://www.darwin-nutrition.fr/en/beneficial-foods/bissap/

 https://fourcarrockcourt.com/bissap-hibiscus-juice/

Tonton Issa to contact via Whatsapp for Senegal tours: +221)-774560034

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I’m talking SPICY topics today like, how can we practice traditions that value elders when the elders are causing just as much mayhem as the youngins.. and why so many non-Black people are taking up space in Black religions when we really have no one to blame but ourselves. ..

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Alafia’s post on elders: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRhxZEUkXlD/?igsh=MXRlOGdjaDlqY3BkOA==

Riva Nyri non Haitan interview: 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIR8TRVSYaQ/?igsh=X20ycE1WTS1n

House plants benefits: https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-home-guide/benefits-of-indoor-plants#7-benefits

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What happens when Africana ritualistic items leave the ceremony and hit the runway for exorbitant prices? Is this a siphoning of ancestral magic or an amplification of it? How might this tie into the elderly women across Ghana being banned from their communities for being “witches?” Is the juju healing, harming, or simply profiting? 

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A modern day witch hunt is happening in Ghana

https://www.instagram.com/p/DRdaMmTjYi-/?img_index=1&igsh=MnFjbHI1NGZsdDNz

Sign Petition: https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/stand-with-women-accused-of-witchcraft-in-ghana/

GUZANGS- African Ritual Aesthetics in the Age of Luxury Fashion 

By Bernando Dayo: https://guzangs.com/how-african-designers-navigate-the-sacred-and-the-market/

The cute purses i like, lol: https://adamaparis.com/index.php/en/shop/jewlery-bag

Mali Dogon Knowledge Development: 

https://ubuntulearningsolutions.com/theory-of-ubuntugogy/

Vinegar benefits: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15698693/

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellness-articles/debunking-the-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/exploring-the-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar

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Let’s start with the beautiful ancestral reclamation story of Amelia Dawley to remind us that time is actually on our side…then discuss this critical moment of the attack on “witchcraft” happening abroad and closer to home than we think. 

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Amelia’s Song Story: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UY3SHv/

Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-memory-of-a-song-reunited-two-women-separated-by-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-180983864/

Ai Artist Xania Monet 

Gayle King interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUBhjOToIC0

https://www.billboard.com/pro/xania-monet-ai-artist-million-dollar-record-deal-what-mean/

Kehlani Slams AI artist: https://www.instagram.com/p/DRagur_EirZ/?img_index=3

Senegal legalizing witchcraft: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-KhbStE-4&t=57s

https://talkafricana.com/senegal-may-soon-legalise-witchcraft-to-ease-burden-on-state-hospitals

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Happy New Year, baes! We made it another year, and in traditional juju fashion let’s talk about the numerology behind the year 2026 and old time rituals that we can take with us (or maybe leave?) in this new year. 

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Sound of Osun’s Bells Recorded by Destiny “Egbeyemi” Hodges.

Intelexual Media A Black History of New Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duzFyatF0x0

NYE: https://time.com/5750833/new-years-day-slavery-history/

https://capitalbnews.org/black-eyed-peas-collard-greens-black-new-years/

 Why Black People Love Greens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIyitYZmm0

WATCH NIGHT References: 

https://youtu.be/p96a1lqAKB4?si=O12SRrw5t4ijluHb

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-watch-night

Ghana Yam Festival 

ICACA ARCHIVESSS-OBIDEABA Akonedi Yam Festival Larte

https://archive.org/details/OBIDEABAAkonediYamFestivalLartehGhana

Food: Hoppin John

https://hermiseenplace.com/black-history-month-hoppin-john/

Tisha Campbell “ I’m Still here…” 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXuDA_XNti4

Lucille Clifton Poem 

“I am running into a new year”

 https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/01/04/i-am-running-into-a-new-year-by-lucille-clifton/

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