From weather signs to dowsing, natural healing and natural ways, "Granny Buck's Dibs and Dabs: Appalachian Traditions and Magical Ways" is a collection filled with the practical knowledge, folklore, trivia and sayings, backwoods storytelling, down-home magical beliefs and practices that come from a harsh environment of early to modern-day mountain living. "Use Mullein plant as a candlewick when making candles if you do not have cotton or flax string. Farmers also used its leaves as insoles for shoes and for floor coverings. Dipped in tallow, the stalks can be used as emergency torches. Be sure to strip its leaves first. It's known as miners' candle." - From Granny Buck's Dibs and Dabs "I was ten years old when my Pa told me a way to "tell the bees" if the beekeeper died. Then he looked down at me for a moment, all quiet-like, and said, "Molly, you may have to do it one day." And I did, in later years...I knocked on three bee hives and announced to our bees that my husband Owen had died. " - from the story ""Fall Harvest and the Root Digger" - From Granny Buck's Dibs and Dabs Catherine S. Buck has a degree in history and belongs to three nationalhonor societies in education. An avid reader, she is also a publicspeaker, workshop host and has experience in talk radio and TV.