Granny Magic traces Appalachian folk healing through family memories and records

Hattie Ruth Mullins’s *Granny Magic: Appalachian Healing Charms & Remedies from the Mountains* presents Appalachian folk healing as history and folklore, not medical guidance. It examines how granny women and other community healers offered remedies, plant knowledge, prayers, and reassurance, placing that work within caregiving, trust, and reciprocal obligation. Drawing on family memories, interviews, newspapers, and other accounts, the book considers how traditions were transmitted and what surviving records can establish, distinguishing documented practices from reported beliefs and later reinvention. It treats inherited knowledge as culturally significant while cautioning that tradition alone does not prove a remedy’s safety or effectiveness.