 Jake Richards
Jake Richards holds his Appalachian-Melungeon heritage close to his blood and bones. His family heritage in Appalachia goes back generations; they have lived in southwest Virginia, east Tennessee, and the western Carolinas for a good four hundred years. He spent most of his childhood at his great-grandmother’s house on Big Ridge in North Carolina, wading the waters of the Watauga and traipsing the mountains by his ancestral home on the ridge. “My family,” Jake writes, “always spoke of the old wives’ tales and folk remedies. They were mountain people to the bone; hunters, farmers, faith healers, preachers, and root-diggers.” Jake has practiced Appalachian folk magic for over a decade. Aside from being an author and practitioner, Jake is a member of the Melungeon Heritage Association, holds a seat on the board of WAM: We Are Melungeons, and is the creator of HOM: House of Malungia, Melungeon cultural society. You can find him on Instagram @jake_richards13
Backwoods Witchcraft (Paperback)
Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia
Conjure Cards (Paperback)
Fortune-Telling Card Deck and Guidebook
Doctoring the Devil (Paperback)
"Notebooks of an Appalachian Conjure Man "
Ossman & Steel's Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing (Paperback)
A Collection of Old-Time Remedies, Charms, and Spells
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