(Paperback)

(Paperback)

"For centuries, people living in Appalachia have used homemade playing cards for fortune-telling and dream interpretation. This tradition has arisen over many generations of backwoods conjurers, 'grannie witches,' and 'yarb doctors'. Here, the author has created a fortune-telling deck fashioned after the folklore, superstitions, and dream symbols that he grew up with in Western North Carolina"

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

"This is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German Powwow healing practices that helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, rootwork, and many other folk healing traditions in America. This reissue puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers on how to use them today"--