In Backwoods Witchcraft<\/i>, Jake Richards offers up a folksy stew of family stories, lore, omens, rituals, and conjure crafts that he learned from his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his grandfather, a Baptist minister who Jake remembers could \u201crid someone of a fever with an egg or stop up the blood in a wound.\u201d The witchcraft practiced in Appalachia is very much a folk magic of place, a tradition that honors the seen and unseen beings that inhabit the land as well as the soil, roots, and plant life.<\/p>\n
The materials and tools used in Appalachia witchcraft are readily available from the land. This \u201cgrounded approach\u201d will be of keen interest to witches and conjure folk regardless of where they live. Readers will be guided in how to build relationships with the spirits and other beings that dwell around them and how to use the materials and tools that are readily available on the land where one lives.<\/p>\n
Pub Date:<\/strong> June 01, 2019<\/p>\n Paperback<\/p>\n 240 pages<\/p>\n ISBN:<\/strong> 1578636531<\/p>\n Publisher:<\/strong> Weiser Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Design preview \u00b7 Purchasing is disabled here.<\/p>\n Jake Richards \u00b7 Appalachian folk magic<\/p>\n Jake Richards holds his Appalachian heritage close in his blood and bones. His family has tilled the soil in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina for a good 500 years. He spent most of his childhood at his great-grandmother\u2019s house on the side of Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. Jake has practiced Appalachian folk magic for almost a decade and teaches classes on the subject in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where he owns Little Chicago Conjure, a supplier of Appalachian folk magic supplies and ingredients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[18],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-34","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books-lore-gifts","first","outofstock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple","entry","content-bg","loop-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terra.movidstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}