Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land by Kathleen Stokker

• Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land
• Kathleen Stokker
• Page: 260
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781681342047
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land

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To cure a fever that begins with chills, write the following on a piece of bread and give it to the patient for eight days, one piece each day, and on the ninth day, burn the last piece: Colameris x, Colameri x, Colamer x, Colame x, Colam x, Cola x, Col x, Co x, and C x. To prevent the huldrefolk from stealing your healthy child and leaving a child with rickets in its place, make three dolls from the child’s clothing to put into the cradle. The huldrefolk will take one of them instead of your child. These and many more fascinating folk-healing rituals were secretly administered by healers, "witches," and religious caregivers who tended the medical and spiritual needs of rural Norwegians for hundreds of years. In Remedies and Rituals, 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. "A history of the ways folk medicine represents a living, evolving body of knowledge and practice—not just as a result of the change in resources and circumstances experienced by immigrants but throughout the documented history of folk medicine in Norway, extending back to the Middle Ages. All too often, folk medicine is portrayed as a kind of timeless survival from a more primitive era, when in fact—as Stokker demonstrates—practice evolves in response to changing needs, materials, and knowledge. . . . An invaluable glimpse into the transformation of day-to-day life of an ethnic group in transition from the Old World to the New." Bulletin of the History of Medicine "Remedies and Rituals brims over with stunning scholarship: Stokker's vivid, illuminating, accessible consideration of medical procedures, clerical perspectives, magical practices, legal strictures, and community structures will endure as a classic study of Norwegian and Norwegian American folklore." James P. Leary, professor of folklore and Scandinavian Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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