Madstones in North Carolina
Author | : Joseph D. Clark |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Joseph D. Clark |
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Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : James K. Kirkland |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1992-01-30 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 082238258X |
Herbal and Magical Medicine draws on perspectives from folklore, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and botany to describe the traditional medical beliefs and practices among Native, Anglo- and African Americans in eastern North Carolina and Virginia. In documenting the vitality of such seemingly unusual healing traditions as talking the fire out of burns, wart-curing, blood-stopping, herbal healing, and rootwork, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how the region’s folk medical systems operate in tandem with scientific biomedicine. The authors provide illuminating commentary on the major forms of naturopathic and magico-religious medicine practiced in the United States. Other essays explain the persistence of these traditions in our modern technological society and address the bases of folk medical concepts of illness and treatment and the efficacy of particular pratices. The collection suggests a model for collaborative research on traditional medicine that can be replicated in other parts of the country. An extensive bibliography reveals the scope and variety of research in the field. Contributors. Karen Baldwin, Richard Blaustein, Linda Camino, Edward M. Croom Jr., David Hufford, James W. Kirland, Peter Lichstein, Holly F. Mathews, Robert Sammons, C. W. Sullivan III
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Robert A. Georges |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253329349 |
""Excellent."" -- The Reader's Review ""Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore... will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world."" -- Come-All-Ye This is the most complete and up-to-date study of folklore and folklore methodologies available. The authors describe the pervasiveness of folklore, including its uses in literature, films, television, cartoons, comic strips, advertising, and other media in a variety of cultures.
Author | : Jack E. Scott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1990-08 |
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ISBN | : 9780533088362 |
Author | : Kay K. Moss |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2021-12-23 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1643362917 |
Explores homespun remedies and medicinal herbs Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike. Moss shows how families passed down cures as heirlooms, how remedies crossed cultural and ethnic boundaries, and how domestic healers compounded native herbs and plants with exotic ingredients. Moss assembles her picture of domestic medical practice largely from an analysis of twelve commonplace books—or repositories of information, medical and otherwise—kept by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southerners. She reveals that men and women of all social classes collected medical guidance and receipts in handwritten journals. Whether well educated or unlettered, many preferred home remedies over treatment by the region's few professional physicians. Of particular interest to natural historians, an extensive guide to medicinal plants, their scientific names, and their traditional uses is also included.
Author | : Tom Peete Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Witchcraft |
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Author | : Vincent DiMarco |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1491718935 |
For centuries prior to the development of an effective vaccination against rabies, the bite of a "mad" dog was linked to a horrific ailment marked by convulsions, an utter dread of swallowing liquids, uncontrollable thrashing, and even the tendency to bark and attempt to bite others-a horrid prelude to an agonizing death. Drawing on learned theories of medical practitioners and beliefs of the common people, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs investigates the cultural mythology of the ailment known today as rabies. By exploring the cultural history of science, traditional belief, and folk medicine, it reveals the popular myths and learned delusions that came to define the disease. Among the arresting topics explored are the attribution of rabies to a worm beneath the tongue, the notion that the disease could arise spontaneously, the idea that it could be "cured" by the application to the wound of special stones or animal parts, and, if all else failed, the treatment of it by the suffocation of the human victim. Rich in detail and brimming with historical intrigue, The Bearer of Crazed and Venomous Fangs engages students of medicine and the history of science, veterinary studies, folklore, psychology, and anyone interested in how mankind's best friend could be thought of as its cruelest, fiercest enemy.
Author | : Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore |
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Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore |
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Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Folk-songs, American |
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