Re: Way too much about mojo

I haven't been by there for a while, but I think it's Spirit Valley Baptist Church 
now.  Of course that
means it's named after the spirits of the dead Indian lovers who threw themselves into 
Spirit Lake off a
high precipice (which there is one along the lake, but you couldn't hit the lake by 
jumping off it).
Incidentally, a similar legend also appears in the Hiawatha poem, so I've doubts of 
its authenticity.
BTW, the link to Hoodoo on the page you cited says that Hoodoo isn't voodoo, so 
perhaps you should acquire
some other mantra.
Brad Sondahl

Lyle Lofgren wrote:

> Brad Sondahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I expect the conversation came about because someone on Bush's staff
> > didn't know what it is, either.  But on the page you suggest, mention is
> > made of Hoodoo, which we have a nearby mountain of that name, and which a
> > local Baptist congregation took for its name, Hoodoo Baptist Church,
> > until after a number of years they learned of its magical connotations (I
> > always thought it was a variation of Voodoo, myself), and they've changed
> > their name to something more sanctified.
> > Brad Sondahl
> >
>
> What did they change their name to? Ever since I read Maya Deren's
> "Divine Horsemen" years ago, I've thought of Hoodoo/Voodoo as being
> pretty sanctified-- moreso than the Lutheran church I attended as a
> youngster, but maybe less so than some of the southern variants of the
> Baptist religion, particularly those involving the handling of
> poisonous serpents.
>
> On a linguistic note, I somehow hadn't noticed how close the "H" and
> "V" sounds in "Hoodoo" and "Voodoo" are until you brought it up--only
> a slight variation in lip position.  Perhaps the original
> pronunciation was somewhere between H and V. So today I'm walking
> around the house saying "Hoodoo. Voodoo." over and over again. I hope
> I get over it before I have to go out and buy some more groceries.
>
> Lyle

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