Ossman & Steel's Classic Household Guide to Appalachian Folk Healing | Free Book
Ossman & Steel’s Guide to Health or Household Instructor (its original title) is a collection of spells, remedies, and charms. The book draws from the old Pennsylvania Dutch and German powwow healing practices that in turn helped shape Appalachian folk healing, conjure, rootwork, and many folk healing traditions in America. Jake Richards, author of Backwoods Witchcraft and Doctoring the Devil, puts these remedies in context, with practical advice for modern-day “backwoods” healers interested to use them today.
The first part contains spells and charms for healing wounds, styes, broken bones, maladies, and illnesses of all sorts. The second part includes other folk remedies using ingredients based on sympathetic reasoning, including sulfuric acid, gunpowder, or other substances for swelling, toothache, headache, and so on. These remedies are presented here for historic interest, to help better understand how folk medicine evolved in America.
It is Jake Richard’s hope that reintroducing this work will reestablish its position as a useful household helper in the library of every witch or country healer.
In The Press
“Jake Richards’ annotated edition of ‘Ossman & Steel’s Guide to
Health’ provides the rare opportunity to explore a scarce and
culturally-significant work on the ritual healing traditions of the
Pennsylvania Dutch, which were influential throughout Appalachia. In
the reverent voice of a contemporary practitioner, Richards guides
readers through this classic healing manual, offering explanations and
insights into the inner workings of this folk tradition. ‘Ossman &
Steel’s Guide to Health’ is also the only known historical work of
Pennsylvania Dutch ritual healing written by a mother and son, Ann
Ossman and Isaac Steel, underscoring the traditional wisdom in valuing
the contributions of both genders in the healing arts.”—Patrick Donmoyer, author of Powwowing in Pennsylvania
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