Ozark Mountain Spell Book: Folk Magic & Healing

by Brandon Weston, Mary Ann Zapalac (Contribution by)

Overview

Explore Ozark Folk Magic for Love, Luck & Health

Apply traditional Ozark workings to your craft and enjoy a stronger connection to the everyday magic all around you. Brandon Weston weaves fascinating historical details and stories from his own practice alongside step-by-step instructions for authentic remedies, rituals, and spells collected from other regional witches and healers.

A companion to Ozark Folk Magic, this book compiles more than fifty recipes that utilize ingredients commonly found in the household or in nature. You will learn how to grow luck at the base of a tree, bring lovers closer together with string, and reverse a hex using a black candle. Weston also covers cleansing rituals, protection charms, dream work, divination tools, and more. With advice for modernizing these techniques, this spell book captures Ozark folk magic as both a deep and evolving tradition for practitioners to enjoy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738770673
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	06/08/2022
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	146,081
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Brandon Weston (Fayetteville, AR) is a healer, writer, and folklorist who owns and operates Ozark Healing Traditions, an online collective of articles, lectures, and workshops focusing on the Ozark Mountain region. As a practicing folk healer, his work with clients includes everything from spiritual cleanses to house blessings. He comes from a long line of Ozark hillfolk and is also a folk herbalist, yarb doctor, and power doctor.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Magical Considerations 13

2 Fortune and Good Luck 45

Ritual to Grow Your Luck and Success 48

Buckeye Charm Bag 48

Lightning Wood for Good Luck 50

Ritual to Open the Door to Prosperity 52

Nutmeg Nut for Good Luck 55

Ritual for Justice for the Wronged 57

Ritual to Draw Customers to Your Business 60

Lucky Charm for Good Business 61

Ritual to Petition an Old Oak for Prosperity 62

A Pocket Full of Gold Amulet 64

3 Love and Relationships 67

Ritual to Bring Two Lovers Closer 71

Ritual to Help Strengthen a Relationship 73

Twelve-Flower Charm Bag to Attract Favor 75

Ritual to Ask a Pawpaw Tree to Bring You True Love 78

Ritual for a Yarrow Love Potion 80

Ritual to Mend a Broken Heart Using Redbud Flowers 82

4 Magical Cleansing 85

Ritual to Catch a Fever in an Egg 90

Ritual to Cleanse Illnesses and Hexes with Knots 91

A Charm Bag for Good Health 92

Ritual to Pass through a Hoop of String for Healing 94

Ritual to Collect Illnesses and Hexes in a Glass of Water 96

Ritual to Cleanse Using Matches 97

Ritual to Cleanse Using a Bath 98

Ritual to Remove the Evil Eye 100

Ritual to Tie Hexes to a Tree 102

Crafting a Healing Blade from Misdetoe 103

Ritual to Cleanse Your Home 105

5 Protection 109

Ritual for Protection while Traveling Using the Briar Charm 115

Ritual for a Protective Fence 116

A House Charm Bag 118

A Protecting Heart Amulet 121

Making a Protective Ladder of String 122

Ritual to Protect Yourself from Being Deceived 123

Ritual to Protect Your Home Using an Oil Lamp 127

6 Retribution 129

Ritual against Your Enemy or Hexer 134

Ritual to Bind Your Enemy 136

Ritual to Put Your Enemy Under a Waterfall 139

Ritual to Rot Away Your Enemy Using an Apple 141

Ritual to Sew Up a Slanderer's Mouth 144

Ritual to Reverse a Hex 145

7 Dreatning 147

Ritual to Aid with Magical Dreaming 153

Ritual to Dream of Your True Love 155

A Key to Reveal the Truth 156

Ritual to Dream with Wormwood 158

A Misdetoe Amulet to Reveal Your Enemy 160

Ritual to Dream of Your Ancestors Using Rabbit Tobacco 162

8 Divination 167

Making a Hole Stone Pendulum 173

Ritual for Divination Using Fire 175

Ritual for Divination Using Smoke 178

Ritual for Divination Using a Spicebush Leaf 181

A Hole Stone for the Second Sight 184

Making a Dowsing Rod 186

Conclusion 191

Bibliography 197

Editorial Reviews

"Brandon's Ozark Mountain Spell Book is full of amulets, charms, and workings, and you will be delighted from first to last."—H. Byron Ballard, witch, farmer, and author of Roots, Branches, and Spirits

"Weston considers these magical operations and folkloric customs and understandings as both a respectful researcher and a dedicated practitioner. Technical analyses of the various components and combinations of spell work and talisman-craft are accompanied by appreciations and explications of hillfolk cosmology, spiritual ecologies, and magical ethics; artfully drawing attention to shifting historical influences upon Ozark folk magic even as it collects and curates these rites and amulets."—Dr. Alexander Cummins, author of A Book of the Magi and editor of Revelore Press' Folk Necromancy in Transmission series

"Brandon invites you into his home, where he serves up history, folklore, and magic. A wonderful and enchanting read."—Katrink Karpetz, Witch of TheWitchery.ca

"The herbal knowledge...that you will find within this book will give readers a fresh look at how a deeply entrenched bioregional practice works magically with the local flora...We believe this information to be vitally important to share with others and find Brandon’s perspective to be well researched, combining healing traditions from his elders as well as his own praxis. This volume adds a new layer to the rich tapestry of Ozark magic."—Catamara Rosarium, convenor of the Viridis Genii Symposium and proprietor of Rosarium Blends

"This book is timely and important in that it helps give readers a broader grasp of the subject of American folk magic with the clarity and authority of an author who has dived headfirst into the subject of Ozark traditions."—Marcus McCoy, editor and co-organizer of the Viridis Genii Symposium and book series

"Not since the sainted Ozark folklorist, Vance Randolph, has there been such an important publication on Ozark folk magic. The fact that Brandon is also a gifted healer, from and of this tradition, offers us a curated collection of tried-and-true knowledge that is a benefit to us now and will be of benefit to future generations of practitioners and scholars."—Rachel Reynolds, Ozark folklorist, head project steward at Meadowcreek Community

"Weston's latest book opens up the world of Ozark folk magic to anyone interested, while still preserving the heart and flavor of this distinctive branch of North American folk practice. The spells themselves all have clear roots within tradition and history, but importantly provide variations that help them fit a modern worker's world. Weston explores depths seldom plumbed, such as the use of dream-based magical instruction, and connects the work to the words and actions of Ozarkers he's interviewed or found in existing folkloric accounts. This is a thorough course in mountain folk magic that invites a deeper understanding of a frequently overlooked region and demonstrates how fully integrated magic is within the Ozark worldview."—Cory Thomas Hutcheson, author and co-host of New World Witchery

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