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Sup Cuz, Eat when you are hungry. Rest when you are tired. or as Ma says, " know when to hold them, know when to fold them."

SHOW NOTES: Sup Cousin, Let me tell you the story of the real OG. Text of Choice: The Annotated African American Folktales https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-African-American-Folktales-Books/dp/0871407531/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11FK0Z7TVWQ0I&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.6UoRn3tpF8y5LInGX1m9UN1zottG2UXhq4p3NdIWLT3iexq7Dr8YhgA3nQm49uHROX_cfNhJ4IRItr3W3GMlSj41r0ogakjK0omy6GCjy45IXmk3HCeAWOSOc0pLsnunY0qgxzxEgkXiUf5ghVi8V7xa3YNoBKupXmXAohvgcGdYrEsIA2DQbYY6TiM-tMnwnl8SFZCWSGOOYVfymbPrdM42oFVNYbRVN_PI44ZLMkw.obr_hEWnfgiM3nIHXkVsxYSRg0MwlWttgz8rDrg7cUM&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+annotated+african+american+folktales&qid=1791131802&sprefix=the+annotated+a%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-1 Ballads of Stagolee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9M5xYS1SsI https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/stagolee/ https://inanotherlifetime.com/stack-o-lee-from-murder-ballad-to-american-myth/ https://www.elijahwald.com/songblog/stagolee/

Cousin.... here are more questions from the internet. For more Hoodoo Lit check out these episodes: https://youtu.be/uz2ijHBjyoE?si=kS6_7MEFhtdh-w2O https://youtu.be/btTUM09YF_E?si=GGNuLTZ2cfQ2ByX2 for more internet witch questions check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_q7nNxJyze7dMtGrceqhMdyXy-84e8k

Show Notes: DON’T BUY IT… MAKE IT! Ivy makes incense; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4MCtWJKTtY Make Incense: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4jXi5jTnde4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmLEhpAaNvg Conjure/ anointing Oils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frA9VTAmW1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcUoxP1JoDg Body Oil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbpSONK6AVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gr6gzXXDAs

sup cousin. It's been awhile. Here is a friendly reminder that the internet is soul consuming if you let it.

Sup Cousin! It's Juneteenth. Let's gather some inspiration from those who walked before us. Show Notes: Frederick Douglas “What is the 4th of July to a slave” read by James Earl Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDcB1NhMfo Fredrick Douglas “A slave becomes a man” https://youtu.be/U-RmmTYxiGc?si=BlkPDACiLDkJqOQ5 Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymPLDO0pOA Who was Malcom X https://youtu.be/ZaVIucxNeTY?si=y9y9eI1Sw5evmoVt The Lost tapes: Malcolm X https://youtu.be/k7MP_h3eQ1o?si=wqrydi9C8EmcaOBi

COUSIN! Ro gets in a tussle with the reverend and his wife. Show Notes: Pt 1: Monitoring the Devil https://youtu.be/jez1hN1y82c?si=amn-wuhCPhdQqyAN Other Tale Originals full playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_q7nNxJyzeDBZ0jpIhuBtewPIa-S0z5&si=eiC5VY8BVr_04UjG Sources: American Negro Folktales by Richard M. Dorson PBS World of Stories: Boo Hag preformed by Donna Washington. https://mpt.pbslearningmedia.org/reso... CoCo talks about Boo Hags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KUnL4rAGDQ&t=211s Musical references Bruno Mars, Why you wanna fight: https://youtu.be/32yqPoXfaU4?si=wTWTQ7ezmjztgqtZ Avi Kaplan, Move Our Souls : https://youtu.be/_wF6xP1Z0YQ?si=D6NXpDrqPjbpzSjY Pharell, Happy: https://youtu.be/ZbZSe6N_BXs?si=SSl8NVWwkrEQEy4- Stevie Nicks, Edge of Seventeen: https://youtu.be/UmPgMc3R8zg?si=GKk4FX1ILdw5DBf4 Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child https://youtu.be/qFfnlYbFEiE?si=1iCBPtGiATe22s4F

Cousin... it's time to sit and think. Show Notes: What is meditation: A deeper dive https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4171985/ https://newedenministry.com/2020/05/24/contemplative-meditation/ https://www.calm.com/blog/mantra-meditation Focused Attention Meditation CoCo’s Ancestral Garden: https://youtu.be/9wNmIJBIIz8?si=nj-pfw0QhWGeh4tb Body Scan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-OQn5Ui8g Contemplative Meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9y4X7Sx_ik&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdHKZr2WVI mantra/Affirmation meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8BIhsAgfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH11undyI2o&list=RDvH11undyI2o&start_radio=1

cuzin! I'm not your mentor. I'm just your cousin.

Cuz, Big sis is here to help us navigate questions around Mind & Spirit connection. Show notes: Big Sis tells you about Her Spiritual Life https://youtu.be/9LPOBEzC32s?si=GruIcts4US-nAzUb More Internet Witches got Questions https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe_q7nNxJyze7dMtGrceqhMdyXy-84e8k Wendy Mata: https://www.llewellyn.com/author.php?author_id=7301&srsltid=AfmBOopcmM6HVM0gdtyxJnoirm4xT-xC1dN-f0r3PMfR5N8Pu3AYfQW8 Urns hold spirits she says: https://www.tiktok.com/@indrasbotanica/video/7369076618909797678?q=spirit%20attached%20to%20ashes&t=1778374990026 “You never leave” from Religion for Breakfast (what your brain goes through when you leave a religion) https://youtu.be/cmXiATStkCo?si=i_nhywIR4-MGB7d4

Cuzn!!!! We have choices to make. Show Notes: All stories sourced from the book “ The annotated african american tales” edited by henry louis gates jr and maria tatar. Story 1: “A vital decision” Originally collected by Leo Frobenius in his work “ Atlantis: volksmarchen und volksdichtungen Afrikas.” Story 2: “The four Fools” adapted from John H. Weeks Congo Life and Folklore. Story 3: “Trackwell, Divewell, and Breavewell.” by Elsie Clews Parsons in Folklore of the sea islands, south carolina.

Cuz, All your dreams can come true if you ask the man at the crossroad. Just know that the price may be more than you are willing to part with. Leave me an email at : [email protected] Follow CoCo Conjure on Ticktock and Instagram Show notes: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician https://www.robertjohnsonbluesfoundation.org/biography/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A&list=RDYd60nI4sa9A&start_radio=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEht5PbNWN4&list=RDoEht5PbNWN4&start_radio=1

Cuz, Sometimes your call for spiritual life is thunderous. Sometimes the lightening bolt misses. Most of the time... it creeps up on you like a rolling spring shower. Show notes: Clifton H. Johnson’s collection of ex-slave narratives called “God Struck Me Dead” https://www.amazon.com/God-Struck-Me-Dead-Ex-Slaves/dp/1610970470 Langston Hughes “The Big Sea” https://www.amazon.com/Big-Sea-Autobiography-American-Century/dp/0809015498

Cuz, My crash out was heavy this week. So we gonna talk about Phillis Wheatly's unwoke poetry from her youth. The Poetry Foundation:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley Smithsonian Natural Portrait Gallery: https://npg.si.edu/blog/phillis-wheatley-her-life-poetry-and-legacy poems on Various Subjects Religions and moral : https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/post/a-selection-of-poems-by-phillis-wheatley-peters Boston public Library Phillis Wheatley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKvyjbIhnZ4 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/phillis-wheatley

Cuz, Competition and Vengeance could lead you to hurting a Heffa. Stories from Mules and Men and Hoodoo In America by Zora Neale Hurston