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"Pietism, Pow-Wow, and the Magical Revival is a fast paced tour through the history of Pennsylvania German folk magic and mysticism and their role in the magical revival of the Twentieth Century. This book takes the reader on a fast paced mystical tour of the last three-hundred years of American spiritual history, up to and including aspects as diverse as the revival of ceremonial magic, Behminist Theosophy, the New Age Movement, and alternative healing...
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Abstracts were compiled from five German newspapers, "Christopher Sower's Germantown Newspaper, 1743-1762 (Pennsylvanische Geschicht-Schreiber, later called Pennsylvanische Berichte); Henry Miller's Staatsbote, 1767-1779; Philadelphische Zeitung, 1756-1757; Philadelphische Correspondenz, 1781-1800; and Germantauner Zeitung, 1785-1790"--from Preface.
70) North America
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Describes the cultures historically found among the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the German settlers of Pennsylvania, the Cherokee and African Americans of the Southern United States, and the Pueblo of New Mexico, and provides instructions for projects that introduce their crafts.