The Sporting Life: How to Help Yourself with Hoodoo from the Streets to the Sheets

Professor Charles Porterfield

ISBN 10: 0996147128 / ISBN 13: 9780996147125

Published by Lucky Mojo Curio Company, 2016

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00102557672

Synopsis:

Enter into the sporting life, the world of prostitutes, pimps, madams, gamblers, bootleggers, and drag queens. From the ritzy clubs, hidden speakeasies, luxurious brothels, and down-on-their-luck dives of old to the seedy massage parlours and back alleys of today, the sporting life has always intersected with the culture of African-American hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork. Now Professor Porterfield takes you into the clandestine milieu of underworld beliefs and secret practices, and shows the impact that the sporting life has on the world of magic and spirituality. With more than 150 practical spells, charms, recipes, and authentic old-style tricks, The Sporting Life pulls back the velvet curtain that has for too long concealed the life, times, and history of the demimonde. Presenting the magic of the prostitutes of the Bible, the working girls of Storyville and Memphis, the high-stakes bettors, the magnetic madams, the persuasive pimps, the cagey corner dope dealers, and members of oppressed lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender communities of colour The Sporting Life is sure to startle your senses and thrill your heart. This exhaustively researched book blows open the hidden world of love, lust, vice, and danger that is the sporting life.

About the Author: Professor Charles Porterfield is an Old Testament, old-school reader and rootworker. His previous books include Hoodoo Bible Magic and A Deck of Spells. He is a natural man who specializes in men's issues and the Biblical and historical aspects of hoodoo and conjure. Texas born and raised, he lives with his wife, children, grandchildren, and two cats.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Sporting Life: How to Help Yourself with...
Publisher: Lucky Mojo Curio Company
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Catherine Yronwode;Charles Dawson;Nelson Hahne;P. Craig Russell;Steve Leialoha;Trina Robbins;Leslie Cabarga;Greywolf Townsend;one Unknown Artist
Condition: Very Good