Description:
The Hoodoo Almanac 2026: The Bibliomancy Edition is a working almanac and living oracle for divination, study, and daily use. It invites readers to open any page for insight-where every page is a prophecy.
Brief description: Denise Alvarado is a New Orleans-born Creole author, artist, and cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on Creole and Indigenous folk traditions of the American South. She is the author of more than thirty books on Southern folk culture and spiritual systems, including The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire, The Magic of Marie Laveau, Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints, and the long-running Hoodoo Almanac series. Alvarado brings a participant-observer perspective to her scholarship, blending historical research, folklore, and lived tradition. Her work has informed film and television projects and continues to serve as foundational reading for students and practitioners seeking culturally grounded, historically accurate approaches to ancestral folkways.