The Candle and the Crossroads : A Book of Appalachian Conjure and Southern Root-Work

Learn the ways of magic and healing from the living, oral tradition of Appalachian Conjure in The Candle and the Crossroads. Orion Foxwood offers a primer on the real magic and techniques of Southern root magic, knowledge he learned first-hand growing up in rural Appalachia.

Foxwood explains magical techniques including:

• Spirit Sight
• Working by the Signs (the ability to synchronize work such as farming, fertility of humans and animals, orcharding)
• Conjuring
• Faith Healing
• Settling the Light (candle magic)
• Doctoring the Root (the ability to use herbs, roots, stones, or animal parts--bones, claws, fur, etc. for magic or the clearing, cleansing, and blessing of the spirit of a person, also known as his or her root)
• Praying or Dreaming True (Blessings of spirit/God to a person, place, or thing as well as prophetic or predictive dreaming)
• Blessing or Cursing