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Bluenose Magic
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Author : Helen Creighton
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus+ORM
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Bluenose Magic written by Helen Creighton and has been published by Nimbus+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Social Science categories.
A collection of traditional Nova Scotian folktales, superstitions and home remedies compiled by the Canadian folklorist and author of Bluenose Ghosts. Beginning in 1928, Dr. Helen Creighton traveled across her native Nova Scotia seeking out and recording its rich heritage in the form of ghost stories, folktales, and folksongs. She first shared her findings in 1957 with the collection Bluenose Ghosts, and followed its success eleven years later with Bluenose Magic, both of which are considered classics of Maritime literature. This fascinating volume welcomes readers into a supernatural world of witchcraft, enchantment, and buried treasure. It shares stories of the region’s indigenous Mi’kmaq people as well as variations of tales brought over from Europe. Here too are folk remedies, dream interpretation, divination, superstitions, and more that has been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia’s families
Bluenose Magic
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Bluenose Magic written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Bluenose Magic, first published in 1968, is considered a classic of Maritime literature, and its author, Dr. Helen Creighton, is one of Canada?s best-loved and most respected folklorists. This fascinating and engaging companion to the author?s best-selling Bluenose Ghosts welcomes readers into a world of forerunners, enchantment, dreams, divination, buried treasure, guardian ghosts, home remedies, and mystical occurrences. These unique tales have been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia?s families.
Bluenose Magic
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Author : Helen Creighton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Bluenose Magic written by Helen Creighton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Folklore categories.
Magical Medicine
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Author : Wayland D. Hand
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Magical Medicine written by Wayland D. Hand and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
"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.
Bluenose Ghosts
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Author : Helen Creighton
language : en
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Release Date : 2009-04-17
Bluenose Ghosts written by Helen Creighton and has been published by Nimbus Publishing (CN) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-17 with Ghost stories, Canadian categories.
Ghosts guarding buried treasure, phantom ships, haunted houses and supernatural warnings of death. These unexplained mysteries are all the more chilling because they are based on personal experiences of ordinary people, told to Helen Creighton, one of Canada's most respected and renowned folklorists.
Quest Of The Folk
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Author : Ian McKay
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1994
Quest Of The Folk written by Ian McKay and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.
Herbal And Magical Medicine
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Author : James Kirkland
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-30
Herbal And Magical Medicine written by James Kirkland and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-30 with Health & Fitness categories.
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
Extraordinary Experiences
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language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2004-10-25
Extraordinary Experiences written by and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-25 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
A collection of over seventy gripping personal accounts of past and present Canadian experiences and events that can be regarded as supernatural or paranormal.
Secret Treasure Of Oak Island
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Author : D'Arcy O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-08-24
Secret Treasure Of Oak Island written by D'Arcy O'Connor and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-24 with History categories.
It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, and as McGinnis and two friends started to dig, they found what turned out to be an elaborately engineered shaft constructed of oak logs, nonindigenous coconut mats, and landfill that came to be known as the Money Pit. Ever since that summer day in 1795, the possibility of what might be hidden in the depths of a small island off the south coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, has made it the site of the world's longest, most expensive, and most perplexing treasure hunt. Author D'Arcy O'Connor recounts the fascinating stories and amazing discoveries of past and current treasure seekers who have sought Oak Island's fabled treasure for over two hundred years. It has baffled scientists and madmen, scholars and idiots, millionaires and get-rich-quick schemers, psychics, engineers, charlatans, and even a former president of the United States. The island has consumed the fortunes-and in some cases, the lives-of those who have obsessively set out to unlock its secret. Despite all their efforts, the mystery remains unsolved, and not a single dime of treasure has ever been recovered. The present-day search is an archaeological dig exceeding anything ever done anywhere for similar purposes, and it may well result in the discovery of one of the world's richest and most historically significant treasures. But this is also the story of individuals who have dedicated years of their lives to discover what was buried long ago beneath this strange island. They are driven by a lust for gold, by archaeological curiosity, and by their determination to outwit the engineer who was responsible for the Oak Island enigma.
The Other Side Of Truth
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Author : Paul Kimball
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2013-04-02
The Other Side Of Truth written by Paul Kimball and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
In The Other Side of Truth, filmmaker Paul Kimball crosses the Rubicon of the imagination to explore the idea that what we call the 'paranormal' is actually a form of artistic expression created by an advanced non-human intelligence to inspire us to think about who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. Using his own journey of discovery as the starting point, Kimball presents the 'other side of truth' - the world not as we have been told it is, but as we are being encouraged to imagine that it could become.
