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I do apologize if any of these are inappropriate questions, I do not mean to offend or ask anything inappropriate, I just wish to learn is all. I get very nervous about asking questions regarding sensitive subject matter. I am also trying to limit my questions, but I have million different ones and not sure at all where to starts at all if I am being honest.
Questions:
Can white people use honey in spells and jars as an ingredient? Just one or the other? Is there even a difference?
Did white Europeans/ people steal the practice of honey from ATRS? What about the thieves vinegar? The person did say that there is plenty of stuff for white people to study, but I think the other stuff they said contradicts that. Maybe I interpreted what else they said wrongly?
Is all European practices / folk practices just stolen from other cultures/ practices?
Are spell jars / bottles stolen?
Trying to understand more, especially if I take inspiration for fiction/stories/ world building. I do not feel like it is my place to take inspiration from closed practices and or cultures as a white person. Would be okay if I were to take inspiration from something like four thieves vinegar and or anything else like it that as long as it originated from European folk magic / practices, but was later into Hoodoo and others ATRS? Assuming the stuff I have read is actually true and it wasn't just stolen from ATRS.
Would there be cultural appropriation when it comes to writing fictional characters, especially whites ones, making non magical medicines and such other things.
Is wicca / paganism just cultural appropriation?
Can white people use dance and music and or singing for their own magickal and or spiritual practices or is this something only in Vodou and or any other closed religions / practices?
These questions also apply to other roots and spirits and other such.
I like looking into things sometimes and I found out about High John the Conqueror and the imopea Jalapa.
I was curious if using the plant in a practice that is not voodoo and or hoodoo is okay. And I was also curious if drawing the plant and or drawing a character using the plant as an ingredient in something mundane and or spiritual and or magical is okay? Would anything happen at all if if one were to do that?
Purely out of curiosity: Would anything happen if a white person were to try and to pray to him at all? I remember reading that a practionor said that if a white person were to do that they would end up very hurt and or killed / dead because of the spirit.
Would it be okay to use the Jalapa plant / root and or any plant / root if it is connected to a hoodoo and or voodoo spirit and or deity in another practice that is not hoodoo and or voodoo?
What about for the purposes of fiction, story or fictional character, and or etc, that is not related to voodoo and or hoodoo? Example would be the fictional chracter making potions / elixirs / ointments / healing related things / making non healing related things / etc. Magical and or otherwise.
Does imagining using the root with magickal intention cause anything to happen? Or does it not matter?
Can one use roots in their own practices(that is not hoodoo and or voodoo)? Or is that exclusively to those practices? Would something happen if one were to do that?
Is the imopea jalapa inherently tied to the spirits without any ritual / magickal working at all?
Is talismens, charms, and bags / pouches bottles and or jars and etc only for / in hoodoo or is it in european folk magick as well? Ex. Mojo bag and other similar things
I just want to be sure as I do not want to take inspiration from closed practices, religions, cultures, and or etc for any fiction I wrote and or anything I may practice one day.
Can white people use plants in their practices?
Would using roots, plants, spices, herbs, leaves, grass, floweres, etc be dabbling in hoodoo and or voodoo just by using them if one were to use them in another practice where they might be used at all? What if it is used is a practice and or tradition that doesn't use them and or in a personal practice and or tradition made by one person? Like the High John The Conqueror root, the plants itself without the spirit / being imbued with the spirit / without calling on the spirit for the plant / root. Or is it so asscociated with the spirit that it should not be used by people who are not in hoodoo? What are others like this?
What about for medicinal purposes or non magickal purposes?
Questions:
Can white people use honey in spells and jars as an ingredient? Just one or the other? Is there even a difference?
Did white Europeans/ people steal the practice of honey from ATRS? What about the thieves vinegar? The person did say that there is plenty of stuff for white people to study, but I think the other stuff they said contradicts that. Maybe I interpreted what else they said wrongly?
Is all European practices / folk practices just stolen from other cultures/ practices?
Are spell jars / bottles stolen?
Trying to understand more, especially if I take inspiration for fiction/stories/ world building. I do not feel like it is my place to take inspiration from closed practices and or cultures as a white person. Would be okay if I were to take inspiration from something like four thieves vinegar and or anything else like it that as long as it originated from European folk magic / practices, but was later into Hoodoo and others ATRS? Assuming the stuff I have read is actually true and it wasn't just stolen from ATRS.
Would there be cultural appropriation when it comes to writing fictional characters, especially whites ones, making non magical medicines and such other things.
Is wicca / paganism just cultural appropriation?
Can white people use dance and music and or singing for their own magickal and or spiritual practices or is this something only in Vodou and or any other closed religions / practices?
These questions also apply to other roots and spirits and other such.
I like looking into things sometimes and I found out about High John the Conqueror and the imopea Jalapa.
I was curious if using the plant in a practice that is not voodoo and or hoodoo is okay. And I was also curious if drawing the plant and or drawing a character using the plant as an ingredient in something mundane and or spiritual and or magical is okay? Would anything happen at all if if one were to do that?
Purely out of curiosity: Would anything happen if a white person were to try and to pray to him at all? I remember reading that a practionor said that if a white person were to do that they would end up very hurt and or killed / dead because of the spirit.
Would it be okay to use the Jalapa plant / root and or any plant / root if it is connected to a hoodoo and or voodoo spirit and or deity in another practice that is not hoodoo and or voodoo?
What about for the purposes of fiction, story or fictional character, and or etc, that is not related to voodoo and or hoodoo? Example would be the fictional chracter making potions / elixirs / ointments / healing related things / making non healing related things / etc. Magical and or otherwise.
Does imagining using the root with magickal intention cause anything to happen? Or does it not matter?
Can one use roots in their own practices(that is not hoodoo and or voodoo)? Or is that exclusively to those practices? Would something happen if one were to do that?
Is the imopea jalapa inherently tied to the spirits without any ritual / magickal working at all?
Is talismens, charms, and bags / pouches bottles and or jars and etc only for / in hoodoo or is it in european folk magick as well? Ex. Mojo bag and other similar things
I just want to be sure as I do not want to take inspiration from closed practices, religions, cultures, and or etc for any fiction I wrote and or anything I may practice one day.
Can white people use plants in their practices?
Would using roots, plants, spices, herbs, leaves, grass, floweres, etc be dabbling in hoodoo and or voodoo just by using them if one were to use them in another practice where they might be used at all? What if it is used is a practice and or tradition that doesn't use them and or in a personal practice and or tradition made by one person? Like the High John The Conqueror root, the plants itself without the spirit / being imbued with the spirit / without calling on the spirit for the plant / root. Or is it so asscociated with the spirit that it should not be used by people who are not in hoodoo? What are others like this?
What about for medicinal purposes or non magickal purposes?
