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Book Synopsis Seasons of a Magical Life by : H. Byron Ballard
Download or read book Seasons of a Magical Life written by H. Byron Ballard and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2021 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book looks at the agricultural year as a starting point for a deepening of Earth-centered spirituality. It gives a set of back stories to ease the reader into a time between the pre-Industrial Era and the uncertainly of the modern one, into a place where the fast-moving stress of American life can be affected by a better connection to not only the natural world but also the pageantries of the year as expressed through seasonal festivals and celebrations"--
Download or read book Brigid's Light written by Cairelle Crow and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, spells, rituals, and recipes celebrating the worldwide influence of this beloved Celtic goddess, with contributions from Amy Blackthorn, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Courtney Weber, and many others This anthology celebrates Brigid, an ancient and mysterious Celtic spirit who ranks among today’s most popular modern goddesses. Venerated in many forms including as a saint and a goddess, Brigid has traveled the globe alongside the Celtic diaspora. Once a goddess with a narrow territory, she is now an internationally beloved presence. While acknowledging her origins, this book also explores Brigid from the perspective of those outside her original Celtic homeland. Editors Cairelle Crow and Laura Louella have gathered art, poetry, stories, spells, rituals, recipes, and traditions as an homage to the worldwide influence of Brigid’s magic and lore, especially among the descendants of immigrants to the Americas. In compiling these individual works, Cairelle and Laura have given voice to those traveling ancestors by showcasing a rich and beautiful heritage manifested through embodiments of devotion by their descendants, as well as others touched by Brigid.
Book Synopsis Pagan Portals - Brigid by : Morgan Daimler
Download or read book Pagan Portals - Brigid written by Morgan Daimler and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagan Portals - Brigid is a basic introduction to the Goddess Brigid focusing on her history and myth as well as her modern devotion and worship. Primarily looking at the Irish Goddess but including a discussion of her Pan-Celtic appearances, particularly in Scotland. Her different appearances in mythology are discussed along with the conflation of the pagan Goddess with Catholic saint. Modern methods for neopagans to connect to and honor this popular Goddess include offerings and meditation, and personal anecdotes from the author's experiences are included as well. Who was Brigid to the pre-Christian pagans? Who is she today to neopagans? How do we re-weave the threads of the old pagan Goddess and the new? Learn about Brigid's myths among the pagan Irish, the stories of Bride in Scotland, and the way that people today are finding and honoring this powerful and important deity to find the answer.
Book Synopsis Southern Harvest Cookbook, The: Recipes Celebrating Four Seasons by : Cathy Cleary
Download or read book Southern Harvest Cookbook, The: Recipes Celebrating Four Seasons written by Cathy Cleary and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The southern garden produces delights in all four seasons, from asparagus to tomatoes, apples to collard greens. Make use of the bounty of your garden or farmers' market with new twists on familiar favorites. Recipes for Apple Radish Salad and Bacon Apple Burgers break up a fall parade of crisps and crumbles. Instead of roasting, make Whiskey Braised Sweet Potatoes or Sweet Potato Peanut Stew and add greens to Shrimp and Grits. Recipes for preserving herbs, pickling peaches and berry jams mean that your harvest will never go to waste. Let experienced gardener and cook Cathy Cleary walk you through four seasons of fresh, flavorful cooking.
Book Synopsis Asfidity and Mad-Stones by : H. Byron Ballard
Download or read book Asfidity and Mad-Stones written by H. Byron Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing these practices and this beloved but fading culture has led me far afield, teaching and speaking. I've rambled from the bayous of Louisiana to the ruined hills of West Virginia, and from Memphis to Glastonbury in search of stories and materials and ways of doing. There are so many old ideas newly integrated into my personal practice and my teaching - enough to fill a book. And here it is. May you remember well and enjoy this next journey.
Book Synopsis Staubs and Ditchwater by : H. Byron Ballard
Download or read book Staubs and Ditchwater written by H. Byron Ballard and published by Silver Rings Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a Friendly and Useful Introduction to HillFolks’ Hoodoo
Book Synopsis Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia by : Anthony Cavender
Download or read book Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia written by Anthony Cavender and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present. He provides a complete tour of ailments and folk treatments organized by body systems, as well as information on medicinal plants, patent medicines, and magico-religious beliefs and practices. He investigates folk healers and their methods, profiling three living practitioners: an herbalist, a faith healer, and a Native American healer. The book also includes an appendix of botanicals and a glossary of folk medical terms. Demonstrating the ongoing interplay between mainstream scientific medicine and folk medicine, Cavender challenges the conventional view of southern Appalachia as an exceptional region isolated from outside contact. His thorough and accessible study reveals how Appalachian folk medicine encompasses such diverse and important influences as European and Native American culture and America's changing medical and health-care environment. In doing so, he offers a compelling representation of the cultural history of the region as seen through its health practices.
Download or read book Earth Works written by H. Byron Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Works is a book for a time of cultural change that author Byron Ballard calls "Tower Time." This book explores long-term effects on both the planet and its inhabitants and includes tried-and-true rituals and ceremonies to improve resilience and face inevitable change with courage and humor. You will find ideas, inspiration, and hope.
Book Synopsis Seasons of a Magical Life by : H. Byron Ballard
Download or read book Seasons of a Magical Life written by H. Byron Ballard and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to return to a simpler time of earth-based spirituality and ritual living, through writings from a small forest-farm in the Appalachian Highlands. This book looks at the agricultural year as a starting space for a deepening of earth-centered spirituality. It gives a set of backstories to ease the reader into a time between the pre-industrial era and the modern one, into a place where the fast-moving stress of American life can be affected by a better connection not only to the natural world but to the elegant expression of the year as expressed through seasonal festivals and celebrations. The chapters are broken into four seasons, with the quarter days a highlight within each, and feature simple skills that accompany each marker in the year. Author H. Byron Ballard offers advice on spiritual and physical immersion into the seasons that applies to readers from all areas: rural, urban, and suburban. This is also a deeply practical book, including insights into the following: Farming & gardening: composting, manure, soil preparation, pests, seed-saving Food: cooking, preserving, foraging, the summer kitchen, mushrooms and mycelium Fiber arts: knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, decorative cut-work, and embroidery Sewing: treadle machines, electric machines, hand sewing Household crafts: candle-making, soap-making, broom-making, sharpening tools Health: medicines, tending the dying, death and death rituals A glossary is included for any unfamiliar terms.
Book Synopsis Embracing Willendorf by : H. Byron Ballard
Download or read book Embracing Willendorf written by H. Byron Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a saga both serious and ridiculous of how the author came to love her body and listen to it, even when it whispered nonsensical things. Embracing Willendorf: A Witch's Way of Loving Your Body to Health and Fitness is a kind of memoir, a story of walking and pondering, of thongs and tight Levis. And it is about transformation. About choosing to be healthier and achieving that through a wonderfully simple idea--that when we love our bodies, we will do what we need to do to nourish these exquisite and beautiful machines. Try out the tasty and healthy recipes in the back, then pick up a few rather naughty books from the suggested reading list. Because once you start loving your body, all sorts of interesting opportunities may present themselves. This book is your personal recipe with the ingredients for living a rich and vibrant life--and perhaps discovering your true self in the process. Embrace your life and your strong physical self. Embrace your Willendorf.
Book Synopsis Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart by : Enheduanna
Download or read book Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart written by Enheduanna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.
Book Synopsis The Prince of War by : Cecil Bothwell
Download or read book The Prince of War written by Cecil Bothwell and published by Brave Ulysses Book. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prince of War is an unauthorized biography of Billy Graham. The book represents the results of a five year investigation of the Graham behind the headlines and photo-ops, the preacher who urged presidents into battle, who slowed progress on racial integration and who worked the corridors of power to his own benefit. It is not the story of a man of peace.
Book Synopsis Medicinal Plants of Appalachia by : Steve W. Chadde
Download or read book Medicinal Plants of Appalachia written by Steve W. Chadde and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicinal Plants of Appalachia (Second Edition) features 125 plants of the Appalachian region of the eastern United States that have been traditionally used for herbal treatments of various illnesses. The book describes each plant and includes color photographs and range distribution maps for each species, followed by a listing of ailments treated and plant part used. Warnings are provided for plants that are toxic if consumed. A complete index and a glossary of botanical and pharmacological terms are provided.
Download or read book Signs in the Blood written by Vicki Lane and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. It’s still a good life–tending the small herb and flower business–but Elizabeth’s fragile peace is about to be shattered. Cletus Gentry vanished while hunting ginseng in the hills–and his mother is sure the childlike man was murdered. As Elizabeth retraces Cletus’s last wanderings, she will discover that a killer has been waiting all the while in the coves and hollows near her farm for her to see the light…and then come willingly to her own death.
Book Synopsis Besom, Stang & Sword by : Christopher Orapello
Download or read book Besom, Stang & Sword written by Christopher Orapello and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing this authentic, traditional spiritual practice to light in modern context. Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft. Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their own backyards, in the uncultivated land or urban cityscape alike, and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or in a neopagan-styled religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are. The material in this book is adaptable to any region in which the practitioner lives. Although the lack of deity worship and holy days is a significant part of the authors' nonreligious approach, this book presents a complete system of practice utilizing ritual, chant, trance, the six paths of witchcraft as defined and explained by the text, and the practices associated with traditional witchcraft.
Book Synopsis Signs, Cures, & Witchery by : Gerald Milnes
Download or read book Signs, Cures, & Witchery written by Gerald Milnes and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
Book Synopsis Pagan Portals - The Morrigan by : Morgan Daimler
Download or read book Pagan Portals - The Morrigan written by Morgan Daimler and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On shadowed wings and in raven's call, meet the ancient Irish goddess of war, battle, prophecy, death, sovereignty, and magic. This book is an introduction to the Morrigan and several related goddesses who share the title, including Badb and Macha. It combines solid academic information with personal experience in a way that is intended to dispel the confusion that often surrounds who this goddess was and is. The Morrigan is as active in the world today as she ever was in the past but answering her call means answering the challenge of finding her history and myth in a sea of misinformation, supposition, and hard-to-find ancient texts. Here in one place, all of her basic information has been collected along with personal experiences and advice from a long-time priestess dedicated to a goddess who bears the title Morrigan.
