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Jake Richards

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Author of the Backwoods Library: “Backwoods Witchcraft”, “Doctoring the Devil”, “Appalachian Folk Healing”, and “Conjure Cards”. Author and curator of Holy Stones & Iron Bones blog Appalachian AniMystic 🎣 🦌

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Pre-orders are now open for my next book!

Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-the-hou...

Amazon
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Weiser Books
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29.01.2026 01:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fern gully green
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography

15.11.2025 23:40 — 👍 7890    🔁 638    💬 132    📌 28
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Until the end of November, all Card and Bone Readings are 40% off!!! ($32 for Card, $48 for Bone). Message me here or email me at drbuck313@gmail.com to book!

13.11.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! SAVE AND SHARE!!!!

#Appalachianfolkmagic #Appalachianfolkhealing #HouseofSpirits #backwoodswitchcraft #Appalachianmountains #Appalachiangraveyards

14.07.2025 21:02 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Get ready yall! (forgot about this app 😆)

14.07.2025 06:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A person sitting in front of a wall of books.  The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

A person sitting in front of a wall of books. The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."

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I still have spaces available this next week for card readings for 40% off, so rate is $36. Message me here or email me at drbuck313@gmail.com to book one.
#appalachianmountainreligion #appalachiancards #playingcards #cardreadings #backwoodswitchcraft #appalachianfolkhealing #blueridgeconjureman

30.06.2025 20:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Force of nature 🐺

02.05.2025 01:04 — 👍 9636    🔁 1252    💬 181    📌 113
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise."

Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms.

Ethical violation as POLICY.

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Right? 👇🏽🤢

28.04.2025 01:23 — 👍 14308    🔁 2695    💬 317    📌 113

I thought this was locat at first: we have a bar down the road called Crowbar 🤣

28.04.2025 06:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I still have spaces available for traditional Appalachian card readings, 30% off until May 1st!

Rate right now is $42.

Message me or email me at drbuck313@gmail.com

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07.04.2025 13:16 — 👍 45529    🔁 7294    💬 839    📌 257
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Is Appalachian Folk Magic a Closed Practice? A Discourse. Author’s working pipe and hand-carved deer hoof pipe tamper A recent email thread with some colleagues somewhat touched on the subject of the impact and threats that Appalachian folk traditio…

These are some of my thoughts surrounding this question, which I believe needed more context than a simple yes or no.

holystonesandironbones.com/2025/04/05/i...

05.04.2025 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Keep up with the series by subscribing to the blog!
#appalachianfolkmagic #Appalachianmountains #appalachianmountainreligion #Appalachianfolkmedicine

05.04.2025 05:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

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Web page about iconic Golden Girls actress becomes latest victim of DEI purge Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".

Iconic Golden Girls actress Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her contribution scrubbed from Department of Defence website

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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

RFK Jr. & his brain worm would just like to remind everyone that he doesn’t give a flying fuck.

‘If H5N1 were to be allowed to run through a flock of 5 million birds, “that’s literally 5 million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,” Dr. Hansen said.😱

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

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Appalachian Witchcraft: Review of a Sordid Selling Point I had to take some time with this one. Not that the subject was thorough or in-depth enough to conjure the need for a thought, but simply to form my thoughts and try to address every issue with thi…

holystonesandironbones.com/2025/03/19/a...

19.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I swear to God, just write about WICCA!
A review will indeed be coming.

18.03.2025 04:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The levels of pissed off this book made me not even 10 pages in when I read it (thankfully didnt spend money on it). The amount of times she has said to practice Appalachian magic you don't need families ties or roots because its "an eclectic path."

18.03.2025 04:35 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Kind of disappointed i got this much detail tonight but not LAST night with the blood moon.

15.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! 🙏

15.03.2025 08:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Appalachia has always been the sacrificial region of this country in terms of lumber, coal, labor, and other resources. Please don't help our traditions be sacrificed to the dollar as well.

13.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please PLEASE vet the products you buy and the sellers, before you buy or consume things like this. Make sure they are coming from LIVING PEOPLE who are FROM APPALACHIA and not just some wanna-be bum trying to make money.

13.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Shit like this has me question if I even wanna write or talk about it anymore. Why? So some fucking BUM can get AI to write about it, steal information, and then make money off of it? I already have to deal with that with living folks, let alone fucking robots.

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