Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia (The Backwoods Library) by Jake Richards, Starr Casas Aryeh Kaplan Includes a foreword by Judika

Includes a foreword by Judika Illes

“She is the spirit of fury and peace

Compiled from within the tradition

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 Includes a foreword by JudikaIn 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