Hellbender (Murder Ballads And Whiskey Book 2) - Plot & Excerpts
Ethnographer’s Note The first thing you have to understand about the Appalachian use of natural material for protection and bewitching is that the practice is not a fiction. The methodology didn’t originate in the imagination of some fantasy novel author. Lead can’t be turned into gold by the wave of a wizard’s hand. A sorcerer cannot produce a fireball to slay an orc. In fantasy fiction, a person’s magical abilities can result from special circumstances of their birth—planets align, ravens arrive with the midwife, a mysterious birthmark appears, etc. The Appalachian Encyclopedia Fascinatica crossed the Atlantic as part of a tool kit that included the moldboard plough and the wheel. In other words, my people use hexes and herbs like a carpenter uses a hammer. In most cases, oral tradition is responsible for a majority of the knowledge passed along through the generations, especially amongst the Irish Celts, where the Roman imposition of Christianity made maintaining a vast body of concrete material dangerous.
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