Putting the Cards on the Table with Professor Charles Porterfield

The AP Strange Show

This week's show is an exciting one, as the one-and-only Professor Porterfield joins AP for an in-depth discussion about Hoodoo, the Sporting Life, and spell work with playing cards. Professor Porterfield is an Old Testament, old school reader and root worker and the author of several books including A Deck of Spells: Hoodoo Playing Card Magic in Rootwork and Conjure. He had recently appeared in Salem, MA, presenting at the Salem Witchcraft & Folklore Festival, and in this episode talks about concepts from his lecture 30 Years in the Sporting Life. In both the lecture and in the interview, he gives practical and magical advice for those who "walk on the other side of the street", who are often the more vulnerable and marginalized among us. In doing so he also gets into the history and philosophy of Hoodoo as a practice and as a means of survival.
Prof. Porterfield also talks about his personal history and lineage in Hoodoo, discusses his conjuring work and divination, and even a bit about ghosts and other entities!

To learn more about the Professor and his work, check out his website here: http://www.professorporterfield.com/