The Powwow Guy

There is so much satisfaction in crafting your own things, like home remedies or candles.

The is the quick and easy way to make lovely beeswax candles to add a touch of light and color and fragrance to your home. Here is what you need:

Beeswax pellets

I've been piecing together my family history for over twenty years and am very proud of what I've managed to find.

My family is sacred to me; particularly through my father's side.

In the mid 1800's, Solomon and Sarah Koenig fled Austria to Pennsylvania so that they could honor their German Reformed religious beliefs. 

Tonight, as I type this, we are experiencing a rare but much-anticipated thunder and lightning rain storm. Generally speaking, we get thunder and lighning storms like this about once a year. They were much more frequent when I was a youngling. I'm honestly not sure why. If any of you know the science behind it, I'd be glad to hear it!

When we were young, thunder would rumble and crack loudly, causing the whole hou...

I learned so much from this video and I especially loved his clarification of what Vodou really is (and really is not) and how Hoodoo is a magical practice and Vodou is a religion. So much great information!

Here's an old article from the Lock Haven Express, November 1976.

The following documentary is a fascinating look at the Appalachian "granny" healers!

In Louisiana, the very same practices that are kept by traditional Powwowers are also kept alive within the tradition of "treatuer" which is basically the Louisiana version of Powwowing. The following documentary, made 25 years ago, is a beautiful testament to this tradition.

There is a young couple local to me that comes to me regularly for various Powwowing. They don't make appointments, they don't have a schedule, they just sort of show up whenever they like. And it's OK. I've known them for about five years now and I've enjoyed getting to know them as well as being able to help them.

Today I was walking one of the dogs and as we walked t...

Powwow charms are all spoken in the name of the Holy Trinity as found within Christian tradition. 

In all of our early grimoires, we see this instruction as far back as the late medeival Catholic church in England. Cunning folk were unquestionably Christian according to the grimoires we have from the 1400's to the 1800's.

The three crosses were a univ...

When the waves of immigration began in the 1600's from the German-speaking lands to the rolling hills of Pennsylvania, a majority of those first brave souls settled in the Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. As time passed, those folks moved north and east of Philadelphia and eventually the Pennsylvania Dutch Country was created.

The vast majority of Pennsylvania Dutch C...