By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 5, 2024
Money spiders. Never putting your purse on the floor. Cooking greens and black-eyed peas on New Year’s Eve for financial prosperity. If you’re a part of the Black diaspora it’s likely you’ve heard of these rituals at one point in your life, and probably instinctively follow them.
But have you ever thought to ask about their origin story?
Like most things, they can traced back
