How do you locate the local Botanicas (places that sell voodoo stuff and lucky charms and Get-Money spray)?
They ain’t in the phone book under “botanicas,” that’s for sure.
Yah, Mon. Whatju need?
Chronicles of a Mod
Chapter XIII
“In which our beloved Ike comes up with an unusual approach to taking care of all the socks and trolls.”
[Eve climbs out of her gorilla costume, slips on a blonde afro wig and sings]:
"Did you ever happen to hear of voodoo?
Hear it and you won’t give a darn what you do.
Tom-toms put me under a sort of hoodoo—
And all night long I don’t know my right from wrong.
Hot voodoo, black as mud, hot voodoo, in my blood
That African tambo has made me a slave—
Hot voodoo, tons of sin—hot voodoo, worse than gin!
I’d follow a caveman right into his cave.
That beat gives me a wicked sensation;
My conscience wants to take a vacation—
Got voodoo head to toes, hot voodoo, burn my clothes
I want to start dancing just wearing a smile!
Hot voodoo I’m aflame, I’m really not to blame,
That African tambo is meaner than mean—
Hot voodoo makes me brave, I want to misbehave,
I’m beginning to feel like an African queen—
Those drums bring out the devil inside me,
I need some great big angel to guide me.
Hot voodoo gets me wild—Oh, fireman, save this child—
I’m going to blazes—I want to be bad!"
—Now . . . what was it you wanted again?
Maybe look under spiritual readings or advisors?
…or you could just drive down Tremont ave. in the Bronx
Hey you go. There are 9 in Brooklyn alone according to this search.
Botanica Yemaya (Stores/Vendors, Brooklyn)
Elysian Fields (Stores/Vendors, Brooklyn)
Four Winds Earth Chorus (Covens/Circles/Groups, Brooklyn)
Holly Oak Village Project (Covens/Circles/Groups, Brooklyn)
Lake Circle Coven (Covens/Circles/Groups, Brooklyn)
Mama Donna’s Tea Garden and Healing Haven (Stores/Vendors, Brooklyn)
Reginleif Fellowship (Covens/Circles/Groups, Brooklyn)
Temple of the Eternal Light (Organizations, Brooklyn)
The Imperial Orgy (Covens/Circles/Groups, Brooklyn)
You sure about that?
According to our friends, the Jehovah’s Witnesses:
“In New York City, botanicas are well advertised in the telephone book, having far more listings in the yellow pages than other religious stores.”
I found them in the phone book -
Businesses Found: 28
Results for “Botanica” in “brooklyn, NY”.
I will e-mail you the results if you like. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to just paste them to this board.
I’m sure you know that Botanicas aren’t just for Voodoo. 
In fact, I saw that commercial: “Botanicas—they’re not just for vooodoo anymore.”
So, Ike, I gather the kids’ cold didn’t respond to Nyquil, huh?
An excellent (and encyclopedic and totally fascinating) online source for supplies and information and all kindsa stuff is luckymojo.com, home of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company. (Full disclosure: it’s run by my old boss. But it’s still way cool.)
We find ours in the phone book under Esotericism. Or by going out and asking around…
What happened, Ike? Isn’t your mojo working anymore?