New extra to my library - Secret language, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Tradition by Gerald C. Milnes.
The nuisance of Old Making German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century-following devastating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-brought about prodigious immigration to America. Several of the immigrants, and their heir, occupied in the Appalachian position. All the rage they accepted a even more old set of devout beliefs and traditions based on a strong presentiment of folk spirituality. They skilled astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric sign and left a donation that may stock-still be found in Appalachian myths today.
Based in part on the author's ample amass of verbal histories from the secluded high ground of West Virginia, Secret language, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Tradition describes these copious occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New Making devout contexts; how they modish on the Appalachian frontier; and the projection of persons beliefs recurrent in the acquaint with world.
By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a corpulent picture of the German input on Appalachia. Widely has been in print about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian kin, but few studies use addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Secret language, Cures, and Witchery sheds unforeseen light on folk influences from Germany, making it a largest part of burning show consideration for to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an take into account in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.
