This book spoke to me almost immediately.  My family is from Southern Ohio and West Virginia.  I love folk lore, superstitions and healing from nature. When reading the foreword the reader could start to feel the love that multiple writers have for this subject and how multiple people incorporate the idea both abstract and actual into their practices. From the start of the book the imagery the writer uses starts to paint an exquisite picture that transports the reader to the location described.  It also helps orient the reader to the area and can give way to locating the actual area on google map images if desired.  The writer settles…