Candle And The Crossroads

The Candle and the Crossroads: A Book of Appalachian Conjure and Southern RootWork
by Orion Foxwood  (Author)

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 firsthand 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 partsbones, 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

The Candle and the Crossroads shows how to create magic in today's world with the old ways and traditions of Appalachia.

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.

Product details

Item Weight : 12.5 ounces

Paperback : 256 pages

ISBN-10 : 157863508X

ISBN-13 : 978-1578635085

Publisher : Weiser Books; First Edition (December 1, 2012)

Product Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches

Language: : English