Voodoo question

"Hoodoo was orignally meant for protection and healing"

No. Not at all. That is a very lady-hearted view and completely inaccurate.

Hoodoo was for poor people to give themselves an upper hand in a society that was constantly finding new ways to oppress them.
Protection and healing were part of the practice...but it was NEVER "originally meant" to be the whole of the practice. Those old timers would cross someone up just as quickly as they'd cleanse their house.

There is a difference between a *jar* work, and a honey/sweetening/sugar *jar*.

True dat!

Correct me, if I'm wrong -- But, voodoo is a religion, while hoodoo is a practice?

I'm bit rusty, here ...

Anywho, Oda, would you mind stating your problems? Please?

Either way Hoodoo was still used for protection and healing. Slaves would use powders and whatever necessary for protection or revenge towards their owners. I may be wrong for labeling it a protection honey jar, but still it's very possible to make a jar containing nothing but herbs, oils and stones and actually instead of honey you can maybe use salt for protection. For that matter then yes, it can be considered a medicine jar as VooConjure stated. But, like I said before it's very versitiale and you can combine religions and things together. As for Voodoo as a relgion. It started as a relgion in Africa, but was then combine with other traditions. In America when the slaves came over they were forced to convert their relgion to Catholic because of their owners beliefs, so you what you have is the two relgions combine of Voodoo and Catholic, so that is why saints coordinate with other religion's saints. But, mainly Voodoo is about the person's experience, responsiblity and empowerment.