Remedies and Rituals
Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land

 

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Remedies and Rituals
Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land

by Kathleen Stokker (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9780873515764

 

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Provides accounts that detail the ingredients, customs, and histories behind natural remedies, potions, whispered spells, and the infamous 'black books' used for centuries by Norway's folk healers. This work also illuminates the personalities of those who risked imprisonment and persecution to help fellow Norwegians throughout the 19th-century.


Kathleen Stokker culls from hundreds of original documents and first-hand accounts to detail the ingredients, customs, and histories behind natural remedies, potions, whispered spells, and the infamous 'black books' used for centuries by Norway's folk healers. Stokker also illuminates the surprising personalities of those who risked imprisonment and persecution to help fellow Norwegians throughout the nineteenth century, as well as the often reluctant healers in the US who continued to treat immigrants living in rural communities beyond the reach of doctors. Dodging harsh criminal laws championed by formally trained doctors, these rebel practitioners drew on ancient written and oral sources to treat everything from burns, broken bones, and whooping cough to difficult labours and emotional stress.


 

ISBN 873515765
ISBN13 9780873515764
Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Format Paperback
Publication date 16/03/2007
Pages 338
Weight (grammes) 713
Published in United States
Height (mm) 230
Width (mm) 155

Healing the People
Folk Healers and Folk Cures
The Pastor as Doctor
The Black Book
Doctor Books
Birthing Children
Rickets Remedies and Lore
Alcohol as Medicine and Scourge
The Letting and Staunching of Blood
Remembered Remedies
Glossary
Index.

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