I bought this book with having any prior knowledge of its contents except what I saw on an old 80's film. I can say how pleased I am. If you are looking for a time tested tried and true book on folk healing then this is certainly the one your looking for. I would definately recommend this one to anyone. Peace, prayers, and good luck.
John J., Oregon
"The author, John George Hohman, would have preferred writing no preface whatever to this little book, were
it not indispensably necessary, in order to meet the erroneous views some men entertain in regard to works of this character." John George Hohman
J.G. Hohman, a Pennsylvania Dutch healer wrote this book in the 1820s. It is a rambling
collection of rural home remedies and folk invocations. Pow-wow is a unique creole
of Christian theology and a shamanistic belief system. It is still practiced in some
rural areas of Pennsylvania. In spite of the name, it is not of Native American
derivation. It is believed to have been brought over to America by German
immigrants who practiced folk-magic.
This little book includes healing spells, binding spells, protective spells, talismans,
wards and benedictions. As for the home remedies, we don't recommend you try
any of them (e.g., if you have scurvy we suggest that you get some limes. And if
your livestock are sick, please have a veterinarian look at them.) The text is also of
historical interest, as it paints a vivid picture of the miseries of rural American life in
the early nineteenth century. The original is very rare. Yet today, you can download your very own copy and start reading it immediately, for a fraction of the price an original would sell for (if you can find a copy).
Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friends is divided into 3 different sections...
Arts and Remedies
Art and Remedies covers topics like:
remedies for Colic*
remedies for Fever*
remedies for Palpitations of the Heart*
precautions agains injuries*
remedy for various ulcers, boils and other defects *
how to cure the bite of a snake
......And for the pet owners and farmers
how to attach a dog to a person
how to cure poll-evil in horses
how to make cattle return to the same place
how to make chickens lay many eggs
.......Other topics
how to make a wand for searching for iron, ore or water
a sure way of catching fish
how to prevent wicked peple from doing you an injury
how to cause male or female thieves to stand still
how to make molasses
And these are just a few of the topics that are covered under the Arts and Remedies.
A CHRISTIAN magical/healing tradition
Despite what the Wiccan historical revisionists would have you believe, this book is rooted in a long tradition of Christian folk magic. Hohman was a Catholic from PA wherein we have a great and complex history of magical/mystical Christian groups. Powwowing, as this practice was called, was common here not with people working "under the guise of Christianity," but with Christian men and women. Read the book- it is replete with references to Christ. Hohman drew from "Egyptian Secrets," folk magic, and I suspect some of the writings/beliefs of the Wissahickon hermits, but it was "The Long Lost Friend" that became the major book in every powwow "doctor's" library. It sat beside the Bible, not in place of it. It is a wonderful local tradition that was strong until the late 1920's when the infamous "hex murder" and subsequent media frenzy drove it underground. The local practitioners were shamed and ridiculed by the media in the 1920's, and now their tradition is being misrepresented as a neopagan new age tradition, which it simply is not. Oh yeah, Hildegard von Bingen and St. Francis of Assisi were Christians too (I've had other wiccans suggest to me that Hildegard and Francis were "actually pagans" which is as laughable as representing the Powwow/Hex tradition as being a pagan tradition.) ...and I'd like to say I have absolutely nothing against wiccans/pagans. I do have a problem with revisionist history though.
Marie K. B., Alaska
Unlucky Days to be found in each month
"Whoever is born upon one of these days is unfortunate and suffers much poverty; and whoever takes sick on one of these days seldom recovers health; and those who engage or
marry on these days become very poor and miserable" J.G. Homan
Appendix
This was added in 1828 and covered
TO SUFFERING HUMANITY - A SALVE TO HEAL UP WOUNDS* - PEACHES -SWEET OIL - CURE FOR DROPSY* - A CURE FOR DROPSY (SAID TO BE INFALLIBLE)* - REMEDY FOR THE LOCK JAW - and much more.
Indispensible for the practitioner of folk magic
A wealth of information and insight into traditional healing, spell-casting, and folk remedies from this rather historically elusive character named John George Hohman. Many of the incantations are tracable back to the Rhine area of Germany during the late Middle ages and many have Cabbalistic and pre-christian roots as well. Hohman was, in reality, a compiler of information adding local German, Scots-Irish and American Indian remedies to his work.
The interesting thing about Pow-Wows is that its contens and concepts were easily recognized by those who purchased it and became an essential tool for what became known as "pow-wowing," "using" and in some cases, "hexerei." This mixture of sympathetic magic, spiritualism and herbalism was widely practiced in rural areas and is still employed, in certain circles, to this day. The practice of "powwowing" is usually passed from generation to generation within families or to someone with an appitude.
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