There just had to be a 1971 in there somewhere........................



In 1971 Oneida and Boots opened The Witches’ Workshop, the first shop of its kind in New Orleans.  Where other shops were essentially botanicas that predominantly served the New Orleans Voodoo community, the mission of Oneida’s shop was to support individuals studying the path of traditional, Old Style witchcraft.  Although she acknowledged the power of Voodoo, and was often called upon to fight her share of nefarious hoodoo spells, Oneida’s shop was dedicated to her passion for the traditional witch practices of Europe – exactly the kind that got so many people burned in the years of the Inquisition.  Oneida also offered education, classes usually held in the rear of her shop, and seeing a growing interest and need in those who came to her, she decided to form first a coven and ultimately an organization that became the first “church” of witchcraft in Louisiana.