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Magical Medicine

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

Autor: 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 f...

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Autor

Wayland D. Hand

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2021

Pagini

376

EAN

9780520358126

ISBN

0520358120

Enbook ID

32769984

Editura

University of California Press

Greutate

712

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 29

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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 field in twentieth-century Europe and America. Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times. Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

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

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