ISBN:
9780520311770
,
0520311779
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (376 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hand, Wayland D Magical Medicine
DDC:
615.880902
Keywords:
Traditional medicine
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Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
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Traditional medicine
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Traditional medicine
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Folklore
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Folklore
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Médecine magique, mystique et spagirique
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Folklore
;
folklore (culture-related concept)
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Folklore
;
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
;
Traditional medicine
;
Europe
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United States
Abstract:
""Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see""; ""Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives""; ""Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away""--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Selected Bibliography -- Introduction -- 1. Folk Curing: The Magical Component* -- 2. The Magical Transference of Disease -- 3. The Folk Healer: Calling and Endowment -- 4. Deformity, Disease, and Physical Ailment as Divine Retribution -- 5. Hangmen, the Gallows, and the Dead Man's Hand in American Folk Medicine -- 6. Plugging, Nailing, Wedging, and Kindred Folk Medical Practices -- 7. Measuring and Plugging: The Magical Containment and Transfer of Disease -- 8. "Measuring" with String, Thread, and Fibre: A Practice in Folk Medical Magic
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Magical Treatment of Disease by Outlining the Ailing Part -- 10. "Over and Out": Magical Divestment in Folk Belief and Custom -- 11. "Passing Through": Folk Medical Magic and Symbolism -- 12. Animal Sacrifice in American Folk Curative Practice -- 13. The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey from Indie Antiquity to Modern America -- 14. Physical Harm, Sickness, and Death by Conjury A Survey of the Sorcerer's Evil Art in America -- 15. Witch-Riding and Other Demonic Assault in American Folk Legend -- 16. The Evil Eye in its Folk Medical Aspects: A Survey of North America
Description / Table of Contents:
17. Animal Intrusion into the Human Body: A Primitive Aetiology of Disease -- 18. Padepissers and Wekschissers: A Folk Medical Inquiry into the Cause of Styes -- 19. Folk Medical Inhalants in Respiratory Disorders -- 20. Curative Practice in Folk Tales -- 21. The Curing of Blindness In Folk Tales -- 22. Folk Medical Magic and Symbolism in the West -- 23. The Common Cold in Utah Folk Medicine -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
