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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""...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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