Jack Montgomery

Class – Hidden in plain sight: Hoodoo in the American Southeast

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Bio for Jack Montgomery

Originally from South Carolina, Jack was born in 1953. His family though Christian, practiced elements of folk religions. As a result, Jack was raised not to fear, but to accept the presence of spirits, dream interpretation and spiritual visions. Jack earned his B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1976 with a major in Religious Studies and Psychology and a minor in Anthropology. He eventually made a career as a professor and academic librarian retiring in 2021.

As a spiritual person, Jack has been involved with traditional American shamanism since 1974 as a folklorist and practitioner of Powwow and Hoodoo shamanic traditions. He received training in Hoodoo principally from James E. McTeer, 1903-1979, and others in his fifty-year spiritual quest and research into American folk magic. He has authored numerous articles for spiritual magazines and his book, “American Shamans: Journeys with Traditional Healers,” was published March 2008 by BUSCA Press.

Jack discovered modern paganism in 1991 through a CUUPS group and has been going to gatherings like PCCO, PSG and PUF ever since.

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