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FOLK MEDICINE
Drinking
To break your husband of drinking, skin a live eel, put the skin in some liquor and give it to him. He will never drink again.
Chicken-pox
Go into the chicken house and let the chickens fly over you, or simply push the patient backward into the henhouse.
Chills and Fever
Cut a notch in a piece of wood for every chill you have had, blow on it, and throw it into a running stream where you never expect to pass again. Go home without looking back, and you will have no more chills.
Often based on religious beliefs, these practices are used to cure diseases and promote emotional and physical well being. The practice of folk medicine is usually handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. In general, this system was used because traditional medicine failed to support blacks and poor whites.
(From: Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro, 1926)
“The Workinest Pill You Ever Saw”
FOLK MAGIC - THE ROOTDOCTOR`S SHOP
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Seriously,
Traditional African medicine is a holistic discipline involving extensive use of indigenous herbalism combined with aspects of African spirituality.
African American pioneers in medicine—past and present.
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I put a spell on you
(Source: storymama)
Food 4 Thought – Mural of Notable Residents of Historic Germantown, Save-a-Lot, Chelten Plaza, Philadelphia, Photo (2-10-12) by Denise Valentine
Food Equity/ Food Security
Germantown History Mural: “Notable” Residents
Marketplace as Metaphor
Food Emancipation
Food Folklore
I want to know whose idea it was to put a lily white representation of Germantown history, including two icons of slavery, on the wall in a predominantly black, and increasingly poor neighborhood?
See: http://storymama01.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/food-for-thought/
THE STORY OF WHO OWNS THE LAND - Take2
live video at: http://youtu.be/PPm0PjzYH1s
Adapted & Performed by Denise Valentine (inspired by a version from Scandinavian folklore in The Storytellers Goddess by Carolyn McVickar Edwards)
Excerpt: Sarah believed she was barren, and convinced Abraham to have a child with Hagar, an enslaved Egyptian girl. Years later, when Sarah gave birth to ‘her own son, Isaac, she worried that he was not the firstborn. She resented Hagar, and banished her and her son Ishmael into the desert wilderness…
Sharing my story practice session, perfecting my craft, preparing to record my CD
Background Sounds: Freesound.org
Roots4Wings
