Explains what the Gris-Gris Path is.
Volume 1 introduces Cajun gris-gris as a spiritual path connected to faith, folk magic, healing, protection, and Louisiana culture.

Explores the roots of Cajun folk magic.
It looks at the bayou roots of the practice and connects them to older French and Acadian traditions.

Shows how prayer is used in folk magic.
The book explains how prayers, novenas, Catholic words, and private spiritual petitions can become part of the work.

Explains the role of saints, spirits, and ancestors.
These sacred helpers are shown as important parts of Cajun and Creole spiritual life.

Defines what gris-gris really means.
Gris-gris is explained as more than a bag. It is a way of using intention, prayer, objects, timing, and faith together.

Explains the work of the traiteur.
The traiteur is presented as a traditional Cajun faith healer who works through prayer, touch, and spiritual healing.

Explains the work of the conjurateur.
The conjurateur is shown as a folk magic worker who may heal, protect, remove harm, guard boundaries, work with weather, make gris-gris, and divine.

Guides the reader through calling and self-initiation.
This section explains how someone may feel called to the path and how they can begin a serious daily practice.

Teaches sacred space and altar work.
The book explains home altars, Virgin Mary shrines, roadside memorials, seasonal altars, and sacred places in everyday life.

Teaches how to write and perform gris-gris work.
Volume 1 explains gestures, prayers, spell structure, attraction work, repulsion work, evasion work, and how to make gris-gris bags for love, money, and protection.

Gives practical reconstructed rituals.
Volume 2 includes many modern rituals based on Cajun, Creole, French, Catholic, and Louisiana folk traditions.

Includes blessing and attraction work.
The book includes rituals for drawing love, money, prosperity, luck, sweetness, and blessings into the home.

Includes family and household rituals.
It covers rituals for babies, children, families, farms, homes, and everyday household protection.

Teaches healing and cleansing work.
The volume includes rituals for healing, uncrossing, anointing, illness transfer, purification, and removing spiritual heaviness.

Teaches protection and boundary work.
It includes salt work, mirror protection, red brick dust, railroad stakes, night protection, banishing, and land protection.

Includes weather and storm rituals.
The book gives folk rituals for fair weather, calling rain, breaking storms, and protecting the home during bad weather.

Explains doll magic and the poupée.
Dolls are shown as spiritual symbols that can represent healing, longing, fertility, memory, or a person’s condition.

Connects the path to living practitioners.
Volume 2 reminds readers that these traditions are not only from the past. They still live through families, healers, workers, and communities today.

Explores Louisiana legends as lessons.
The book discusses figures like the Rougarou, Cauchemar, Feu Follet, Madame Grands Doigts, and other Louisiana legends as stories with moral and spiritual meaning.

Connects folk magic to culture, holidays, and divination.
Volume 2 includes Louisiana holy days, folk celebrations, playing-card divination, saints, native plants, glossary terms, notes, and the lineage of the book.