| Other Classification Number |
OCC028000 MED041000 bisacsh
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| Corporate Name |
Ossman & Steel, author.
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| Uniform Title |
Guide to health or household instructor
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| Title Statement |
Ossman and Steel's classic household guide to Appalachian folk healing : a collection of old-time remedies, charms, and spells / Introduction and commentary by Jake Richards ; Foreword by Silver Ravenwolf.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Household guide to Appalachian folk healing
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Newburyport, MA : Weiser Books, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
pages cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction -- A note to the reader -- The guide to health or household instructor -- List of remedies.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"A long-treasured but forgotten classic of folk healing, with an introduction and commentary by the author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil. Ossman & Steel's Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, rootwork, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers interested to use them today. The first part contains spells and charms for healing wounds, styes, broken bones, maladies, and illnesses of all sorts. The second part includes other folk remedies using ingredients based on sympathetic reasoning, including sulfuric acid, gunpowder, or other substances for swelling, toothache, headache, and so on. These remedies are presented here for historic interest, to help better understand how folk medicine evolved in America. It is Jake Richard's hope that reintroducing this work will reestablish its position as a useful household helper in the library of every witch or country healer"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"This is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German Powwow healing practices that helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, rootwork, and many other folk healing traditions in America. This reissue puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day "backwoods" healers on how to use them today"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Folklore Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Witchcraft Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Charms Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Healing Folklore Appalachian Region.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Region Social life and customs.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Richards, Jake, 1997- editor.
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