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Hold My Sweet TeaEp. 16-Mountain Medicine & Folk Remedies: Exploring the Rich Traditions of Appalachian Granny MagicSend us a textDeep in the hills and hollers of Appalachia, a powerful healing tradition emerged from necessity and wisdom. "Granny Women, Granny Magic or Granny Witchcraft" is the amalgamation of cultural knowledge, medicinal practices and religion of all kinds that women used to provide healing and healthcare in isolated mountain communities for centuries.These remarkable "granny women" combined European folk healing traditions with Native American plant knowledge, German folklore, and African spiritual practices to create a uniquely American approach to medicine. Far more than just herb collectors, they were skilled midwives, weather forecasters...
2025-03-3133 min
Advent Calendar HouseThe Christmas Toy🎄 Join us on a stroll down Jim Henson’s dark hall of nightmares to 1986 to rewatch The Christmas Toy, an idea no one has repeated since.  ****  🎙 Guests:  Beth Cieslik (@BethTheObscure).  Adam Jurotich (The Hourchive).  Donnie Storms (Bronwen’s Ghost, @boxcar45).  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  1. Kermit was cut from the DVD release, but he’s back in the version on Amazon Prime Video.  2. Rugby crashing his skateboard into a block tower is the 1980s Muppet version of WWE’s Titus O’Neil tripping and slidin...
2020-12-041h 26