Happy Halloween & Blessed Samhain! This episode is all about our relationships to food and sacred rituals. We discuss Hoodoo offerings, Samhain, Día de los Muertos, and Shinto buddhism. We also made funnel cake, a traditional dish of Finnish Mayday celebrations. For patreon subscribers, we’ve released some bonus footage about the Hungry Ghost Festival and bread-loving faeries.

Sources:

https://www.hoodoofoundry.com/the-ancestor-altar/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(spirituality)

http://missionaryindependent.org/conjurecookoff.html

http://missionaryindependent.org/hoodoo-heritage-festival-workshops.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

https://spiritspodcast.com/episodes/dia-de-los-muertos?rq=day%20of%20the%20dead

http://www.theafromystic.com/blog/2017/11/4/a-veneration-prayer-to-invoke-the-ancestral-spirits

http://blackyouthproject.com/how-learning-to-work-with-my-ancestors-created-a-relationship-of-reciprocity-and-parental-support/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/msf-podcast-05-hoodoo-black-southern-spirituality-conjure/id1506840626?i=1000472248624