As a devil, one can bend the rules, and in my work, as the cosmos seems to play by some rules, I prefer to bend them, to retell the story. To me, The Devil is the guy the know, the trickster, the storyteller. Devils and goblins play a role in my work and path, and I relate and connect with devils on many levels. Speak of the Devil….what role does he play in your practice or how does he figure in your personal cosmology? You also go by “the Devil” other than being the proprietor of Devil’s Conjure how did this nickname come about? Through my work with Cyprian and the Crossroads Devil, I conjured up our name, because who doesn’t love the Devil!?” Over the next series of days, Cyprian revealed to me the next steps, even as far as products and beyond. At the time, I had just quit my job, and my husband was between jobs. The name and everything you see now, came over a year ago, last August to be exact, in a series of visions from Cyprian. Originally, We were Darkly’s Curiosities, an occult and oddities emporium, and spent 7/8 years running that business successfully, honing our craft, flexing our business skills, eventually evolving into Devil’s Conjure. Devil’s Conjure is the birth child of myself and my husband, a work of love, manifested over a decade. All these practices have coalesced and infused themselves into my cosmology and the work I provide now.” I learned a lot from my husband, as well as various spiritual practitioners of various traditions over the past decade or so, including exorcism, ceremonial magic, herbalism, and alchemy, and more. My sight opened-up more fully, as I began to engage in shamanic healing practice and methodologies, energy healing, Prana, etc. As I stepped into my 20’s, Spirits began showing themselves in dreams, Astral projection/ travel that I experienced unwittingly as a child, resurfaced. I feel much of my upbringing in a non-denomination Christian family actually ended up with me pushing VERY far from religion in my teens, where I learned about other belief systems from Buddhism to Wicca, which opened up a new world to me. I never felt I belonged, but I knew I had to play the part, that I had to clap or sing, or pray. “Growing up, as a child, in numerous churches of various denomination was very confusing for me. I had alot of different experiences as a child, including the weather, and multiple death experiences that have stayed with me, and as my own work has grown, I see now those were initiations.” One particular story of a great-aunt who is said to have been a poisoner, whom I later found out was a village healer, was a story that stuck with me, particularly the part where the coven she left would come to her when she was asleep, and hit her with thorns. I would spend many summer days running in the woods, climbing red clay dunes and trees, watching rattlesnakes and vultures go about their business. Growing up fishing from creeks and bridges, walking barefoot in the woods, many times alone, was an empowering experience for me as a child. “I grew up outside of Ramer, Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, with my southern Baptist mom’s side of family, and occasionally spending summers with my dad’s side, Methodist and Catholic. Adam also provides readings and spiritual consultations to determine how to best approach a situation. The Devil’s Conjure offers monthly community rituals that customers can be a part of depending on their goals. In addition to their ritual oils and Conjure boxes, they also have a number of different rituals to choose from. In our interview we discuss the topic of the Devil, and look at some of Adam’s magical offerings.ĭevil’s Conjure stocks a wide selection of unique rituals oils and incense, including classic hoodoo formulas and Adam’s own formula’s including The Oil of the Witch and Flying Monkey Oil. I find it interesting the Devil is a prominent figure in both the folk magic of the American South as well as the traditional witchcraft practices of Europe and the British Isles. I had the opportunity to interview Adam Darkly, conjureman and proprietor of the Devil’s Conjure. It is a full service hoodoo, root work and conjure shop offering ritual supplies and spiritual services online including readings and rituals.
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