TY  - GEN
T1  - Magical Medicine The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Folk Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America.
A1  - Hand, Wayland D.
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1377818888
AB  - ""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.
OP  - 376
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - GR880
SN  - 9780520311770
SN  - 0520311779
SN  - 9780520358126
KW  - Traditional medicine.
KW  - Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
KW  - Traditional medicine : United States.
KW  - Traditional medicine : Europe.
KW  - Folklore.
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Médecine magique, mystique et spagirique.
KW  - folklore (culture-related concept)
KW  - Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
KW  - Traditional medicine
KW  - Europe
KW  - United States
ER  -