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The Folkways & Witchery of Appalachia
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The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This book explores the region's customs and traditions for magical healing, luck, prosperity, and more. Author Byron Ballard - known as the village witch of Asheville, North Carolina - teaches you about the old ways and why they work, from dowsing to communicating with spirits.
Learn the deeper meaning of magic hands for finding, haint blue doors, and herbs and plants for healing. Discover hands-on tips for creating tinctures and salves, attuning to the phases of the moon, interpreting omens, and other folkways passed down through generations of those who call the Blue Ridge Mountains home. Part cultural journey and part magical guide, this book uncovers the authentic traditions of one of North America's most spiritually vibrant regions.
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- A Cottagecore Guide to Slow Living, Connecting to Nature, and Becoming Enchanted Again
- By: Paola Merrill
- Narrated by: Paola Merrill
- Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The Cottage Fairy Companion is your accessible and beautiful guide to mindful living. It teaches the fundamentals of cottagecore style through the practices of The Cottage Fairy’s daily life.
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Gentle soul
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-22
By: Paola Merrill
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The Backyard Parables
- Lessons on Gardening, and Life
- By: Margaret Roach
- Narrated by: Margaret Roach
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Margaret Roach has been harvesting 30 years of backyard parables - deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper - and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo."
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Great Writing Distracting Reading
- By Anonymous User on 02-11-13
By: Margaret Roach
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The Vineyards of Champagne
- By: Juliet Blackwell
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture out to pluck sweet grapes for the harvest. But wine is not the only secret preserved in the cool, dark cellars... In present day, Rosalyn Acosta travels to Champagne to select vintages for her Napa-based employer. Rosalyn doesn't much care for champagne - or France, for that matter.
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Very Depressing
- By Anonymous User on 03-08-20
By: Juliet Blackwell
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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic
- The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive
- By: Martín Prechtel
- Narrated by: Martín Prechtel
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s realization that human survival depends on keeping alive the seeds of our “original forgotten spiritual excellence.” Prechtel relates our current state of ecological crisis to the rapid disappearance of biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and shared human values. He demonstrates how real human culture is exterminated when real (not genetically modified) seeds are lost.
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Absolutely awesome and delicious!
- By Anonymous User on 08-18-21
By: Martín Prechtel
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