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Signs, cures, & witchery : German Appalachian folklore

Title: Signs, cures, & witchery : German Appalachian folklore / Gerald Milnes.
Author: Milnes, Gerald.
Publication: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.

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Description

xvi, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Signs, cures, and witchery

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index.

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.

Call Number

IEK 07-4014

ISBN

1572335777 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781572335776 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006026740

OCLC

71006696

Author

Milnes, Gerald.

Title

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

Imprint

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2007.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-237) and index.

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Research Call Number

IEK 07-4014

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