Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work

by Orion Foxwood, Mat Auryn (Foreword by)

Overview

Traditional Southern root magic and conjure from someone who learned the old ways growing up in rural Appalachia.

Folk magic conjurer and root worker Orion Foxwood invites you to take a walk through his native Appalachia, through moonlit orchards and rural farms, to the dark of the crossroads. From the oral tradition of his ancestors to the voices of the spirits themselves, Foxwood brings readers the secrets of Southern magic: 

• Working by the signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility, and orcharding)
• Faith healing
• Settling the light (candle magic)
• Doctoring the root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts for magic or for clearing, cleansing, and blessing a person)
• Praying or dreaming true (blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)
• Blessing or cursing

Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work shows how to create magic in today’s world with the old ways and traditions of Appalachia.

This book was previously published as The Candle and the Crossroads. This new edition includes a foreword by Mat Auryn, author of Psychic Witch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578637362
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	01/01/2021
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	488,779
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Orion Foxwood is an elder in the Celtic and Romano Celtic Traditional Craft, a high priest in Alexandrian tradition and the founding elder of the Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion. He lectures throughout the United States and the United Kingdom on the Craft, Faery Seership tradition, Southern folk magic, and conjure. Visit him at www.orionfoxwood.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2021 Edition xi

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xvii

1 Magic and Spirit Sight in My Folk Culture and Personal Work: A View from Within 1

2 The Three Paths to Cultivating the Spirit 19

3 The Origins of Southern Conjure and Root Doctoring 51

4 The Nature and Power of Conjure 65

5 Growing Your Spirit 95

6 Baby, You've Stepped in Somethin'! 127

7 Fixing Yourself with Good Spirits 143

8 Ancestral Spirits and Graveyard Magic 163

9 Gates into the Spirit World and Encountering the Dark Rider 193

10 Working the Root 213

Afterword 227

Recommended Reading 229

Resources 233

Editorial Reviews

"Orion is my kind of magic maker — an old-timey candle-burning, spirit-connected, go-out-and-play-in-the-forest kind of root doctor. Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work is a rare invitation into his magical mystical world. If you want to learn authentic spiritual practices that are steeped in tradition, I can think of no better book than the one you are holding in your hands."

Madame Pamita

We walk a steep and rock-strewn path here in Appalachia—a place haunted by undying and toxic stereotypes, as well as a history of relentless extractions and intractable poverty. Out of this rough stew, we create poetry, music, and magic. Orion’s book explores one of our many paths to the Mystery and invites the reader to join that exploration.” —H. Byron Ballard, folklorist and author of Staubs and Ditchwater: A Friendly and Useful Introduction to Hillfolks’ Hoodoo
 
 
 

H. Byron Ballard

"Mountain Conjure and Southern Root Work is a masterpiece. From the very first page, Orion invites us to walk through the culture, history, and magic of root working. Orion’s eloquence is majestic; to read this book is to understand the true meaning of the word ‘soulful.’ Read this book and you will understand the workings and social role of root workers in all their ancestral depth, and the cultural significance and beauty of Appalachia.

Elhoim Leafar