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