The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

  Once was a time when I was known for my Hoodoo Review blog, where I reviewed products from various occult shops and botanicas. Eventually I got rid of the blog because I was experiencing too much trouble with inconsistency in products -- that is to say, an item I had loved the first time I bought might not be made the same way when I ordered from the same manufacturer a year later. Sometimes this was due to certain occult shops or practitioners not following a set "recipe" and instead making the formulas however they felt like making them on that occasion. Other times the problem would be a decline in quality (especially from larger makers) as the search for cheapness and easiness overrode the tradition or effectiveness of older more expensive formulas. One example was the Ar-Jax brand of incense, which originally had some herbal matter in the mixture, but over time came to be made with the same plain, colored incense mixture that everything sold by Wisdom Products uses. In...

The Princess and the Frog is one of those films along with Corpse Bride and Doom Generation that everyone seems to think I ought to like and yet I really despise. The very nonsensical depiction of Voodoo was the least of its problems. Nevertheless, I love 2-D animation and recently stumbled on the blog of animator Andreas Deja, who worked on that film among many others.  On his blog he reveals that the character of Mama Odie is secretly a 2-D animator as well.  Let's hope she's better at it than she is at problem solving (seriously, why didn't she just tell them to get married -- by her --to break the curse, they could always get divorced later?)