Granny witch

Long ago, before the development of modern inventions or an increased ease of travel, and before North Carolina had a doctor in many of our towns, the Granny Witch was lauded as the healer and powerful one in the community everyone would turn to for ailments and other issues. The many isolated areas in the mountains of Western North Carolina made it difficult to seek help outside many of the small communities. - I never knew about this!!!

Photo by BlueRidgeKitties So when exactly did witches get such a bad reputation? In the mid-19th century, nearly...

Ella Dunn, Granny Doctor from the Ozarks who lived to be 104 years old "learned about medicinal herbs from her father. However, some of the herbs he prepared and used, such as digitalis known as foxglove, Ella did not use because these herbs became readily available already prepared in the drugstore. "Even though my husband had heart trouble," she said, "I never used digitalis. I don't even know how my father prepared it because we could buy it already prepared."

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Known as Asheville’s village witch, Byron Ballard practices what she calls “hillfolk hoodoo,” a form of Appalachian folk magic. Ballard came by hoodoo naturally, growing up in a poor community in the mountains of Western North Carolina where hoodoo was practiced. She laments that the practice is disappearing: “Local hillfolk are no longer practicing hoodoo,…

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