Hoodoo Voodoo Good Hours and Bad Hours

sinister magical spell casting hours

I've posted before about the Planetary Hours and their variant Voodoo Hours. But there is another special timing system for spellcasts, reported by Zora Neale Hurston after what she practiced in the 1920s -- Good and Bad Hours.

Good Hours:


2 o'clock
4 o'clock
5 o'clock
6 o'clock
7 o'clock
9 o'clock
11 o'clock
12 o'clock

Bad Hours:


8 o'clock
3 o'clock
10 o'clock
1 o'clock


Bad hours are for performing evil or "bad" work, and good hours are for good, beneficial works. Note that love spells were usually considered to be good work, at this time.

(It may be of note that the Bad Hours align to Saturn's Saturday Hours in the Planetary/Voodoo Hours system.)