Ballard specializes in Appalachian folk magic and folkways.

Ballard specializes in Appalachian folk magic and folkways.
Open Coven, a new collective designed to assist fledgling as well as experienced artists in discovering the sacred process of making art, offers indoor and outdoor workshops this fall.
Ever since we led a protest rite against Buncombe County officials’ sale of public parkland graced by a pair of magestic old magnolia trees to developer Stewart Coleman, the über-Republican Carolina Stompers have aimed religiously bigoted attacks at our Coven Oldenwilde—first through a video ridiculing City Council candidate Elaine Lite for participating in the protest, […]
Local author and Wiccan priestess Byron Ballard tapped as panelist for Harvard folklore conference.