Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Foreword VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Folk Medicine and History 7
6. The Madstone 11
7. The Role of Animals in Infant Feeding 21
8. The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America I 31
9. The Mole in Folk Medicine: A Survey From Indic Antiquity to Modern America II 37
10. Miraculous Restoration of Lost Body Parts: Relationship to the Phantom Limb Phenomenon and to Limb-Burial Superstitions and Practices 49
11. A New Approach to the “Old Hag”: The Nightmare Tradition Reexamined 73
12. The Interrelationship of Scientific and Folk Medicine in the United States of America since 1850 87
13. Shamanic Equilibrium: Balance and Mediation in Known and Unknown Worlds 99
14. California Indian Shamanism and Folk Curing 109
15. American Indian Foods Used as Medicine 125
16. Communication Networks and Information Hierarchies in Native American Folk Medicine: Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico 143
17. Plant Hypnotics among the North American Indians 159
18. Medical Folklore in Spanish America 169
19. The Role of the Curandero in the Mexican American Folk Medicine System in West Texas 175
20. Some Aspects of Folk Medicine among Spanish-speaking People in Southern Arizona 191
21. A Survey of Folk Medicine in French Canada from Early Times to the Present 203
22. Folk Medicine in French Louisiana 215
23. Hohman and Romanus: Origins and Diffusion of the Pennsylvania German Powwow Manual 235
24. Folk Medicine and Sympathy Healing among the Amish 249
25. The Other Kind of Doctor: Conjure and Magic in Black American Folk Medicine 259
26. Birthmarks and Psychic Imprinting of Babies in Utah Folk Medicine 273
27. Healing in a Balmyard: The Practice of Folk Healing in Jamaica, W.I. 285
28. Doing What, with Which, and to Whom? The Relationship of Case History Accounts to Curing 301
29. Texas and Southwest Medical Lore in the Anderson Collection, University of Houston 315
30. Index 321