Cory Thomas Hutcheson

Llewellyn's Complete Book of North American Folk Magic (eBook, ePUB)

A Landscape of Magic, Mystery, and Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the cohost of the popular podcast New World Witchery , more than twentydiverse traditions from New England to the West Coast.

Drawing on the expertise of twenty-four renowned practitioners, this book features contemporary folk traditions from all over North America. Diverse as the landscapes they thrive on, these authentic practices will expand your worldview and inspire you to enrich your own spirituality. Explore the history, tools, and spiritual beliefs of many different paths of folk magic from Mexico, the United States, and Canada. You'll tour the continent's rich and variedcultures region by region, taking an insider's look at more than twenty traditions, including:

• Appalachian Mountain Magic
• Brujeria
• Curanderismo
• Detroit Hoodoo
• Florida Swamp Magic
• Irish American Folk Magic
• Italian American Magic
• Melungeon Folk Magic
• New England Cunning Craft
• New Orleans Voodoo
• Ozark Folk Magic
• Pennsylvania Powwow & Braucherei
• Slavic American Folk Magic
• Southern Conjure

Contributors include:

Stephanie Rose Bird . H. Byron Ballard . Starr Casas . Ixtoii Paloma Cervantes . Kenya T. Coviak . J. Allen Cross . Alexander Cummins . Morgan Daimler . Mario Esteban Del Ángel Guevara . Lilith Dorsey . Morrigane Feu . Via Hedera . Cory Thomas Hutcheson . Melissa A. Ivanco-Murray . E. F. E. Lacharity . Dee Norman . Aaron Oberon . Robert Phoenix . Jake Richards . Sandra Santiago . Robert L. Schreiwer . Eliseo "Cheo" Torres . Benebell Wen . Brandon Weston

"Rich, engaging, and incredibly diverse,this book gives us irreplaceable and enlightening glimpses into every folk magic you can imagine from the South to the North and all the way out West. A must-have book for any folk practitioner." -Frankie Castanea, AKA Chaotic Witch Aunt, author of Spells for Change

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Llewellyn Publications
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780738768038
• Artikelnr.: 73945740

Autorenporträt

Cory Thomas Hutcheson (Central Pennsylvania) is the cohost of the popular podcast New World Witchery. He has a doctorate in American Studies with specializations in folklore, religion, and ethnicity from Penn State. He is a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies and American Myths, Legends, & Tall Tales, and he has written for popular occult publications, including Witches & Pagans.

Ixtoii Paloma Cervantes is a Curandera and an abuela de tradicion (elder that teaches Curanderismo). She was born and raised in northern Mexico around Curanderismo and has worked as a Curandera since the 1980s. She spent most of her early life in the Yucatan Peninsula, then left in the 1990s and lived in Europe and the United States. She currently lives near Fresno, California and has her own business, the Ixtoii Institute of Shamanism and Curanderismo.

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Morgan Daimler's witchcraft is inspired the Irish Fairy Faith. She is the author of Pagan Portals: Fairy Witchcraft, Pagan Portals: The Morrigan, Fairycraft, Pagan Portals: Irish Paganism, Pagan Portals: Brighid, and Pagan Portals Gods and Goddesses of Ireland (Moon Books).

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