Gris-Gris Bag
The gris-gris bag is a small flannel pouch, often red, filled with herbs, roots, coins, stones or personal items and made by Louisiana root doctors and hoodoo practitioners to carry a 'work' for love, luck, money, protection or success. The name gris-gris is used in New Orleans, while the same charm is known as a mojo bag or hand elsewhere, and the tradition blends West African spiritual practice with colonial folk belief. A bag must often be 'fed' with oils, powders or an offering to keep its power, and it is carried on the body, usually in a pocket or at the waist, and kept secret. Roots suc