It’s October, My Pretty! Honoring The Beauty In Hoodoo Heritage Month
The month of October lines up with so many annual events that the “dark ladies” of the world really stan: Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, All Saints’ Eve, you name […] The post It’s October, My Pretty! Honoring The Beauty In Hoodoo Heritage Month appeared first on Essence.
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By Akilah Sailers ·Updated October 21, 2025 < /> Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… The month of October lines up with so many annual events that the “dark ladies” of the world really stan: Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, All Saints’ Eve, you name it. And as the astrological weather changes from lush Libra season to seductive Scorpio season, Many Black people in the diaspora are also celebrating the beauty within Hoodoo Heritage Month!
Hoodoo is a spiritual tradition of West African people who came to the Americas in the middle passage. As marginalized people began to share communities, Hoodoos created new traditions, customs, and spiritual systems that made sense on foreign land, mixing customs from their homeland with those of Indigenous people and poor immigrants who introduced Christian traditions.
For centuries, the
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