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Signs, cures, & witchery : German Appalachian folklore Gerald Milnes

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks USouth GR 111 .G47 M55 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Milnes, Gerald.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
German Americans--Appalachian Region--Folklore.
German Americans.
German Americans--Appalachian Region--History.
Occultism--Appalachian Region--Folklore.
Occultism.
Persecution--Germany--History.
Persecution.
Freedom of religion--Appalachian Region--History.
Freedom of religion.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.
Appalachian Region--Folklore.
Appalachian Region.
Physical Description:
xvi, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Other Title:
Signs, cures, and witchery
Place of Publication:
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.
Contents:
The old world
The new world
The pioneers
Religion
Astrology
The occult
Folk art and material culture
Johnny Arvin Dahmer: family curing traditions
The Pitsenbargers
Dovie Lambert
Witchery on the farm
Folk medicine
Healers and granny women
Women and witchery
Witch doctors
Exhumations, tokens, and water witching
Dairy products
Spells, charms, and confrontations
Magical places and substances
The pact
Witch balls, conjuring, and divination
Magical imprints
Revels and belsnickles.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index.
Local Notes:
The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
ISBN:
1572335777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781572335776 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
71006696

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