{"id":56678,"date":"2022-11-23T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=56678"},"modified":"2022-11-23T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:28:16","slug":"the-mountain-witches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-mountain-witches\/","title":{"rendered":"The mountain Witches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachians<\/p>\n<p>the mountain people<\/p>\n<p>a mix of the Aboriginie<\/p>\n<p>Scots-Irish: German<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Blacks<\/p>\n<p>Sub Saharan \u00a0Ancestry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a hard life purely physical<\/p>\n<p>,an awful lot of poverty<\/p>\n<p>Patriarchy ruling hard<\/p>\n<p>Company owned towns<\/p>\n<p>where<\/p>\n<p>women brought a healing<\/p>\n<p>a magical affair<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>herbs and potions<\/p>\n<p>misogyny took hold me thinks<\/p>\n<p>suppose<\/p>\n<p>female sexuality<\/p>\n<p>sorcery belief<\/p>\n<p>in magic strength in numbers<\/p>\n<p>witchcraft spells and grief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>casting spells<\/p>\n<p>for spite and malice<\/p>\n<p>women nursing healing ways<\/p>\n<p>appreciation and understanding<\/p>\n<p>intuitive and vibrant soul<\/p>\n<p>exuberant and ardent feelings<\/p>\n<p>enchanting excitability<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a lot of suffering<\/p>\n<p>a lot of heartache<\/p>\n<p>wretchedness and misery<\/p>\n<p>villainy and spivvery<\/p>\n<p>bribable and mercenary<\/p>\n<p>Witchcraft and the need to try<\/p>\n<p>That pagan spirit<\/p>\n<p>and impiety<\/p>\n<p>and godless doubting<\/p>\n<p>witchery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appalachians the mountain people a mix of the Aboriginie Scots-Irish: German Indigenous Blacks Sub Saharan \u00a0Ancestry &nbsp; a hard life purely physical ,an awful lot of poverty Patriarchy ruling hard Company owned towns where women brought a healing a magical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-mountain-witches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-sabbats-and-the-old-craft","category-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56679,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678\/revisions\/56679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}