Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780271042213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today his memory lives on in the legends he helped promote, such as that of the Indian princess "Nita-nee," for whom Central Pennsylvania's Nittany Mountain is supposedly named, and his instrumental role in creating Pennsylvania's noted system of parks and forests and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Author: Thomas White
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9781540208781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John L. Brooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521565646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion.
Author: Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes both books and articles.
Author: John Horden
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 248
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Publisher: Scholarly Title
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David W. Kriebel
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780271032139
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known in Pennsylvania Dutch as brauche or braucherei, the folk-healing practice of powwowing was thought to draw upon the power of God to heal all manner of physical and spiritual ills. Yet some people believed, and still believe today, that this power to heal came not from God, but from the devil. Controversy over powwowing came to a climax in 1929 with the York Hex Murder Trial, in which one powwower from York County, Pennsylvania, killed another powwower (who, he believed, had placed a hex on him). In Powwowing Among the Pennsylvania Dutch, David Kriebel examines the practice of powwowing in a scholarly light and shows that, contrary to popular belief, the practice of powwowing is still active today. Because powwowing lacks extensive scholarly documentation, David Kriebel&’s research is both a groundbreaking inquiry and a necessity for the scholar of Pennsylvania German history and culture. The fact that powwowing is still practiced may come as a surprise to some readers, but included in this book are the interviews Kriebel had with living powwowers during his seven years of fieldwork in southeastern and central Pennsylvania. Along with these interviews, Kriebel includes biographical sketches of seven living powwowers; descriptions of powwowing as it was practiced in years past, compared with the practice today; a discussion of the belief of powwowing as healing; and a discussion of the future, if any, of powwowing, and what it will take for powwowing to continue to survive.