Signs, cures, & witchery : German Appalachian folklore
Gerald Milnes (Author)
"Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore describes various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2007
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, 2007
Folklore
xvi, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781572335776, 9781572338784, 1572335777, 1572338784
71006696
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