Written by What it is: A slim, rigorous, deeply practical guide to folk witchcraft rooted in animism, familiar spirit work, and land-based practice
This book arrived in the community quietly. A small, independently published volume from a press most people hadn’t heard of, with a plain cover and no marketing budget to speak of. It found its audience entirely by word of mouth, passing between practitioners who pressed it on each other the way you press a book on a friend when you have just read something that articulates what you’ve been trying to articulate for years.
Roger J. Horne comes from two specific lineages, Scottish cunning craft and Appalachian herb-doctoring. And Folk Witchcraft reflects both. It is, in the best possible sense, a book that knows exactly where it comes from. Horne is not assembling a synthesis of world traditions or