{VIRTUAL} Southern Folk Magic 101

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Crossroads, haints, grandma’s prayers, Southern Folk Magic is more than Bible prayers and kitchen remedies. This living tradition involves resilience, healing, and everyday wisdom passed on from family to family. During this class, we will see the connections of African, Indigenous, and European influences that make up this spiritual practice, look at common tools and herbal material used, and at the end of class, we will learn how to set up your altar through the lens of Southern Folk Magic.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Gabriel Varzalyi-Lopez is a biracial Virginia-born folk practitioner, a devotee to his ancestors, spirits of nature, and the God and Goddess of his mother and father. He is a seer, diviner, spiritual medium, and conjurer trained in the Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans. While being dedicated to his spiritual work for over a decade, while also assisting the community in his legal profession through his daily life, Gabriel sees the balance that both the spiritual world and material world have in the progression of someone’s life. Born from a lineage of witches, orthodox priests, farmers, artists, and at times rebellious characters, he understands the process by which messages are received from Spirit, allowing for a different type of magical work to occur. Gabriel is also a writer for Witches Magazine under his mundane alias, an independent magazine based in the United Kingdom. An adventurous spirit, Gabriel feels and hears the call of spirit through winding southern brooks and on high mountain peaks, observing the simple magics that each of us cherishes in our everyday lives.