Signs, Cures, and Witchery - German Appalachian Folklore

Informationen zum Autor Gerald C. Milnes is the folk arts coordinator of the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis and Elkins College. He is the editor of Granny Will Your Dog Bite and Other Mountain Rhymes and author of Play a Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Klappentext Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery 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. Zusammenfassung Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia! Signs! Cures! and Witchery 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Milnes, Gerald C Milnes, Gerald C. Milnes
• Publisher: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2012
• EAN: 9781572338784
• ISBN: 978-1-57233-878-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore