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

by Wayland Debs Hand and Wayland D. Hand

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"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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520358120

ISBN13:9780520358126

Release Date:May 2021

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:376 Pages

Weight:1.52 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Folklore & Mythology Medical Medical Books Mythology Mythology & Folk Tales Social Science Social Sciences

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