Deep in the southern swamps, conjure is alive and well.
From the thick of Louisiana, to the coast of the Carolinas, roots are still worked, and late at night, the Old Black Man can be met at the crossroads.
On the coast of Mississippi, gators hunt, owls screech, and toads croak. Among them you can find Toad's Bone Apotheca, and Papa Toad Bone, digging roots, grinding bones, and gathering old Spanish Moss. These are a few of the tools of the conjure man. Papa Toad Bone traverses the southern roads with a trunk packed with his goods, working with people on their conditions, and telling folk of the old southern way.
Some know me as many names, most as Papa Toad Bone, Papa Tixerand to some, and known to many for being named after a certain ugly swamp fish. I am a Mississippi Gulf Coast Creole, and Conjure Man. My family was among the first settlers of the swamps and bayous stretching from Mobile to New Orleans, and all points between.
From the thick of Louisiana, to the coast of the Carolinas, roots are still worked, and late at night, the Old Black Man can be met at the crossroads.
On the coast of Mississippi, gators hunt, owls screech, and toads croak. Among them you can find Toad's Bone Apotheca, and Papa Toad Bone, digging roots, grinding bones, and gathering old Spanish Moss. These are a few of the tools of the conjure man. Papa Toad Bone traverses the southern roads with a trunk packed with his goods, working with people on their conditions, and telling folk of the old southern way.
Some know me as many names, most as Papa Toad Bone, Papa Tixerand to some, and known to many for being named after a certain ugly swamp fish. I am a Mississippi Gulf Coast Creole, and Conjure Man. My family was among the first settlers of the swamps and bayous stretching from Mobile to New Orleans, and all points between.
I bought my first < try somewhere else!> from a conjure shop in the Quarter when I was a teenaged boy, and have been making my way down that old dirt road to the left ever since. After spending many, many years looking in various sources, from different ages and different places, it was after standing at the crossroads and going to the waters, that these wet lands of mine answered.
I discovered what was here all along. That is how I came to work roots in the southern fashion.
