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Magical Medicine The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America.

""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""...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hand, Wayland D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : University of California Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
505 8 |a 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 
520 |a ""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. 
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