{"id":19641,"date":"2018-11-16T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=19641"},"modified":"2018-11-16T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:00:40","slug":"rootwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/rootwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Rootwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now free on Archive.org, a huge encyclopaedic compendium of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/HoodooConjurationWItchcraftRootwork\/page\/n9\">folk-beliefs about the &#8216;active supernatural&#8217;<\/a>, that could still be found being expressed by folks in America during the 1930s. The beliefs are exhaustively categorised by type, in the manner of the theme-sorting ethnographic folklorists and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.ualberta.ca\/~urban\/Projects\/English\/Motif_Index.htm\">fairy-tale sifters<\/a> of the period (sadly, sci-fi has never had a similarly completist look-up volume containing an index of all of its themes and concepts). <\/p>\n<p>Many of the book&#8217;s &#8216;folklore collecting points&#8217; overlap with areas encompassed by Lovecraft&#8217;s annual summer travels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/collecting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/collecting.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"685\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19642\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My red dots, for clarity.  South Carolina is a probable dot as well, but I can&#8217;t be sure.<\/p>\n<p>This defunct historical lore is possibly most useful, these days, as a set of <em>Oblique Strategies<\/em>-like ideas which writers can use to inspire new works.  Open at random three times, pick an idea randomly from each of the three pages, then think of a setting that might contain and combine them all in some way.  Add characters, and devise the skeleton plot framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now free on Archive.org, a huge encyclopaedic compendium of folk-beliefs about the &#8216;active supernatural&#8217;, that could still be found being &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/rootwork\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}