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In 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 inhabit the land as well as the soil, roots, and plant life. The materials and tools used in Appalachia witchcraft are readily available from the land. This grounded approach will be of keen interest to witches and conjure folk regardless of where they live. Listeners 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. This book also provides instructions on how to create a working space and altar and make conjure oils and powders. A wide array of tried-and-true formulas are also offered for creating wealth, protecting one from gossip, spiritual cleansing, and more.

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While Jake Richards doesn't hold initiations, titles, or degrees, he clearly does hold his Appalachian heritage close to his blood and bones. He 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. Starr Casas, a veteran rootworker and traditional conjure woman, has been helping people for over thirty-five years through her ancestral art of old style conjure. She is one of the preeminent modern masters of this southern American style of folk magic, and she maintains an active teaching schedule. Starr is also among the organizers of the annual New Orleans Folk Magic Festival. Starr Casas, a veteran rootworker and traditional conjure woman, has been helping people for over thirty-five years through her ancestral art of old style conjure. She is one of the preeminent modern masters of this southern American style of folk magic, and she maintains an active teaching schedule. Starr is also among the organizers of the annual New Orleans Folk Magic Festival. Ian Andrews had a split childhood growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands. He still maintains citizenship in both the US and UK and travels between the two as often as possible while living primarily in Alabama. He is a lover of football- both American football and the football known in the US as soccer. As a young man Ian spent his summers working with elementary-aged children at Camp Sumatanga in Alabama, where he was given the job of telling stories around the campfire. This ignited a love of storytelling which he continues to feed in many forms, including audiobook narration, writing, and broadcasting. A father of two boys, he is focused on giving them a great start in life and once they are out in the wild, he and his wife plan to explore as many places on Earth as they can, starting with the warm, sandy places that have more-than-adequate supplies of fancy drinks with umbrellas.

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