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unusual facts about folk magic



Alpinia galanga

Under the names 'Chewing John', 'Little John to Chew', and 'Court Case Root', it is used in African American folk medicine and hoodoo folk magic.

John George Hohman

He immigrated to the USA from Germany in 1802, settled in the area around Reading, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, where he printed and sold broadsides, chapbooks and books and practised and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow.


see also

Botanica

Botánica, a Latin-American-Caribbean style shop specializing in articles of folk magic and similar merchandise.

Obeah and Wanga

Obeah is a folk religion and folk magic found among those of African descent in the West Indies.