Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia (The Backwoods Library) by Jake Richards, Starr Casas Aryeh Kaplan Picking up where Practical Candleburning

Picking up where Practical Candleburning Rituals leaves off

Set together

Worn through the day or kept on a money altar

Includes a foreword by Judika Illes

but it rests on genuinely old symbolism: the circle as wholeness

Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia (The Backwoods Library) by Jake Richards, Starr Casas Aryeh Kaplan Picking up where Practical CandleburningIn Backwoods Witchcraft, 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 "rid someone of a fever with an egg or stop up the blood in a wound." The witchcraft practiced in Appalachia is very much a folk magic of place, a tradition that honors the seen and unseen beings that