Der Zauberschpiggel, The Magic Mirror: Hex Signs and the Folk Spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch
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Followup to "Der Volksfreund, Hex Signs, Folk Tales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch."
A fascinating collage of art, oral history, folk tales, scholarship and personal, family memory, Der Zauberschpiggel provides unique insight into the mis-named Pennsylvania Dutch, the descendants of immigrants from the Rhine in the Eighteenth Century, to America. The author, an accomplished practitioner of the folk art of those people, and a product of their culture, makes illustrative use of his own work largely in the form of his Hex Sign paintings, and of his family history, Includes a number of contributors including articles by his brother, scholar Russell Yoder, Dennis Boyer, John Joseph Stoudt, Edwin Miller Fogel and many many more.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B09KN2JXFR
ISBN13:9798754535398
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:Independently Published
Length:398 Pages
Weight:1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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