Folk magic & the magic of folklore isn’t just anywhere: it is everywhere. From the herb you hold over your heart in dreaming of a future lover, to the well into which you throw a wishing coin, & from the many witching ways of working a hagstone, to making & keeping allegiances with the various spirits lurking in the bushes & the beyond.
 
What unites many of these folk magical practices are their interdependences upon the land, upon a wider ecology of living Spirit expressing fundamental interrelationalities of Nature, including humanity’s positive & negative impacts. How the land reminds us who we are & what we have done, & how we may honour & celebrate right relationships.
 
The all-too-human problems that folk face – both the day-to-day grinds & the acute crises – are faced with spiritual & magical strategies derived from earth, root, leaf, fruit & so on that help situate us in our contexts. With the proper husbandry & care, health, prosperity, success, love, & so on may indeed grow on trees. 
 
About the Presenter:
Dr Alexander Cummins is a contemporary cunning man & historian. His magical specialities are the folk necromancy, geomancy & the grimoires. His published works include An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke with Phil Legard, The Starry Rubric, A Book of the Magi: Lore, Prayers, & Spellcraft of the Three Holy Kings & contributions to collections by Three Hands Press, Hadean Press & Scarlet Imprint. He is a frequent speaker on the international circuit, co-hosts the podcast Radio Free Golgotha, & is a founding editor of Revelore Press’ Folk Necromancy in Transmission series. Dr Cummins’ work, classes, & services can be found at www.alexandercummins.com
 
Jesse Hathaway Diaz is a folklorist, artist, performer & independent scholar with a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU. With initiations in several forms of witchcraft from Europe & the Americas, he is also a lifelong student of Mexican curanderismo, an initiated priest of Obatalá in the Lucumí Orisha tradition, & a Tatá Quimbanda. He co-hosts an occult themed podcast called ‘Radio Free Golgotha’, & edits the ‘Folk Necromancy in Transmission’ series through Revelore Press. For the better part of two decades, he has been involved with Theatre Group Dzieci, a New York based experimental theatre ensemble which explores theatre & ritual as a way, blending service with self-exploration & performance. 
 
Aerinn Hodges is an artist, magician, & animist excavating the role of women & trans-feminine people in magic & religion. Her work is inspired by the mysticism of medieval visionaries, the community-based sorcery of folk magicians, & trans priestesses of the ancient Mediterranean.
 
Professor Charles Porterfield is an old-fashioned, no-nonsense, Old Testament reader & rootworker. He is the co-author of Hoodoo Bible Magic: Sacred Secrets of Scriptural Sorcery, & author of A Deck of Spells: Hoodoo Playing Card Magic in Rootwork & Conjure and The Sporting Life: How to Help Yourself with Hoodoo from the Streets to the Sheets. He writes, teaches, & lectures on hoodoo &  conjure to help preserve & pass on the roots of the work as well as consults, prescribes, & divines work for those in need. 
 
Beverley Smith - known in some circles as “Doctor Beverley” - is a  mother & a wife, a yogi, a social justice advocate, & a “two-headed  conjure doctor” who enjoys living in the mountains in Southern California with her family & two cats Max & Sweet Puss. She specializes in Sangoma-style Bone Reading & intuitive divination. Beverley Smith enjoys West African & Caribbean literature & folklore, & the ancient art of storytelling - both as a listener & a storyteller. She is an old-style Hoodoo (Conjure) Rootworker, an  empath, an organic gardener, a lifelong student of herbalism, & a relentless advocate for racial & restorative justice.
 
Brandon Weston is a folklorist, spiritual healer, & writer living in the Arkansas Ozarks. He is author of "Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers, & Healing" & the forthcoming "Ozark Mountain Spell Book." He is  owner of Ozark Healing Traditions, a collective of articles, lectures,  & workshops focusing on traditions of medicine, magic, & folklore from the Ozark Mountain region. As an active healer, his work with clients includes everything from spiritual cleanses to house blessings & all the weird & wonderful ailments in between. He comes from a  long line of Ozark hillfolk & works hard to keep the traditions that he’s collected alive & true for generations to come.
 
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