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Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
University of Tennessee Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-1-57233-891-3 | Paper: 978-1-57233-878-4 | Cloth: 978-1-57233-577-6 Library of Congress Classification GR111.G47M55 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 398.208931074
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Signs, Cures, & Witchery provides a fascinating glimpse of some little-known Appalachian beliefs and practices among descendants of early German pioneers. Signs, Cures and Witchery opens a window into our ancient past, revealing the courage and resourcefulness of people whose survival depended on their ability to "read signs," cure their own ills, and find explanations for life's mysteries. Local community practices in West Virginia such as witch doctoring, "belsnickling," "shanghai," and folk healing are connected to their medieval counterparts in woodcuts and other works of art. In tracing immigration to remote mountain communities, we learn how expressions of folk art and folk belief survive. This work specifically examines aspects of Appalachian oral tradition and folklore that draw from German culture. Informative and entertaining, Signs, Cures, and Witchery is an invaluable aid to all who have an interest in religion, psychology, folklore, metaphysical, regional, gender, and ethnic studies. See other books on: Appalachian Region | Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Freedom of religion | German Americans | Signs See other titles from University of Tennessee Press |
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Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
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University of Tennessee Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-1-57233-891-3
Paper: 978-1-57233-878-4
Cloth: 978-1-57233-577-6
eISBN: 978-1-57233-891-3
Paper: 978-1-57233-878-4
Cloth: 978-1-57233-577-6
Signs, Cures, & Witchery provides a fascinating glimpse of some little-known Appalachian beliefs and practices among descendants of early German pioneers. Signs, Cures and Witchery opens a window into our ancient past, revealing the courage and resourcefulness of people whose survival depended on their ability to "read signs," cure their own ills, and find explanations for life's mysteries. Local community practices in West Virginia such as witch doctoring, "belsnickling," "shanghai," and folk healing are connected to their medieval counterparts in woodcuts and other works of art. In tracing immigration to remote mountain communities, we learn how expressions of folk art and folk belief survive. This work specifically examines aspects of Appalachian oral tradition and folklore that draw from German culture. Informative and entertaining, Signs, Cures, and Witchery is an invaluable aid to all who have an interest in religion, psychology, folklore, metaphysical, regional, gender, and ethnic studies.
Gerald C. Milnes is the folk arts coordinator of the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis and Elkins College. He is the editor of Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes and author of Play a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia.
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