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Folklore
Harry Middleton Hyatt's Hoodoo–Conjuration–Witchcraft–Rootwork is an enormous collection of African American folk-magic testimony gathered primarily through interviews in the American South. The complete work spans five volumes and approximately 4,766 pages. Hyatt's fieldwork was conducted principally between 1936 and 1940 across states including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The collection includes thousands of recorded beliefs and workings as well as extended interviews with people identified as root doctors, conjurers and Hoodoo practitioners. Arcane Archive For serious Hoodoo research, Hyatt is valuable because much of the material preserves the words and reported practices of African American informants living during the early twentieth century.