I am not sure if Lala has followers that Practice Wicca (I don't), if so please chime in. So youngest daughter{19} got really freaked ( I blame AHS:The Coven) out when she realized that I was invoking Papa Legba even though I explained everything about him and what he does and can do to her as well as explaining that the character on AHS was not Papa Legba.
Well today she really freaked out because she found out that a young lady who practice Wicca passed away a couple days ago after she did a spell to conjure Papa Legba (against her groups advice). After she did the spell, she's posted that she saw Papa Legba and that she was scared...apparently a couple days later she drowned in her hot tub.
All through the comments there were people who said that because she practice Wiccan she should not have been trying to conjure him in the first place, other comments stated that because she was a white woman the LWA'S are off limit to them to begin with, I know that's not true or at least I think it's not!
My question is, because I'm trying to get my daughter to understand what I'm doing without being fearful. If you are respectful, knowledgeable and you do everything properly and correctly can you call on the assistance of a LWA regardless of what you practice?
The story was that the girl apparently didn’t know what she was doing trying to invoke LWA and then died a couple days later after having an anxiety attack in her hot tub and drowned. She was trying to invoke Legba because she thought he would help her put a hex on her black gf, and instead invoked Baron Samedi. This was according to her friends on facebook. Whether her dabbling has any connection to her death or not, I think there is a convo to be had about jumping into religious and spiritual practices because it sounds cool, without doing your homework and understanding it.
As for Wicca, I don’t know anything about Wicca stemming from hoodoo (Here’s some basic info here I found https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wicca) but personally it seems antithetical to me to be a Wiccan and still practice Hoodoo. One of the main tenets of Wicca is “and harm none, do what thou will.” They believe in the “threefold law” that whatever you put out you get back times 3 and the laws of karma. The thing is, there is no karma or 3 fold law in hoodoo.
Hoodoo is not against hexing and harming others to protect yourself and doesn’t threaten retribution of curses or goofering etc. of course that doesn’t mean that all of our actions don’t have consequences, but there’s no need to fear for cursing someone, which Wicca is 100% against. I’ve been on other boards where a lot of Wiccan folks who also do hoodoo start claiming that Hoodoo follows the tenets of Wicca and that is not true.
My personal opinion is that non-black people/folks who are not descended from slaves have no business practicing Hoodoo because it’s not their culture or ancestry. I think it’s disrespectful to be invoking the spirits of those who aren’t ones ancestors and asking for help. There never seems to be an issue when non-black groups speak out against appropriation of their culture by outsiders, but when black people say the same suddenly we’re being “gatekeepers” and selfish and “why can’t we all just share everything?” Thats another rant for another day. Having said that, I cannot stop anyone from practicing anything they want, but I would hope that people would do their research, rather than trying to dabble in 4-5 different spiritual practices that one doesn’t understand and are usually antithetical to one another.
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Frankly, that story sounds like a bunch of nonsense. You should invest in some hoodoo literature for both you and your daughter; You need not fear. Lala has posted books to read as well as other people in this forum. I have yet to conjure Legba or the other LWA’s but he has visited me in my dreams twice. He is a prankster of sorts but he is a favorite LWA of many and the one that will open doors to soooo many things for you. Lala has spoken myriad times in this forum about finding out the truth for yourself. You cannot let other people define religion/spirituality for you. Blessings on you & your daughter’s journey to the truth!
It’s all about respect. Wicca stems from hoo doo. So... I’m not sure why they would say that in the comments. I believe that it’s all about education, like everything else, and the way that things are depicted on tv just makes things worse unfortunately 😩😩😩🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
What did the woman do exactly? I know color has nothing to do with it