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Among the Pennsylvania Germans, the 'plain folk', such as the Amish, Dunkers, and the Mennonites, as well as among the Lutheran and German Reformed church members – Pow-Wow and the Pow-Wow doctor has a significant following. [16] Another characteristic practice of powwow magic is the Himmelsbrief or "heaven's letter".
A Pennsylvania Dutch variant, c. 1790, of the Sator Square, one of the spells in The Long Lost Friend. Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend is a book by John George Hohman published in 1820. Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer; the book is a collection of home- and folk-remedies, as well as spells and talismans.
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. He was active between 1802 and 1846.
Rehmeyer's Hollow (or Hex Hollow) is an area of York County, Pennsylvania, located in North Hopewell Township, near Winterstown. The area is named after the extended Rehmeyer family, who began settling the hollow in 1844.
As well as being apart of the Neo-Pagan community, she is also a hereditary Powwower who was taught by Preston Zerbe, [3] and adopted the Pennsylvania Dutch practice in a Neo-Pagan context. [5] She learned from her grandfather, Samuel Cornelius Baker, that on her grandmother’s, Lottie Knaub’s, side there was a strong connection to Pow-wow. [3]
Kerry Washington portrays Lt. Col. Charity Adams in the Netflix film. The real-life leader was born in Kittrell, N.C., on Dec. 5, 1918, and raised in Columbia, S.C.
Pow-wow (folk magic), a North American vernacular healing system rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch folk culture; PowWow, a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote; PowWow (chat program), an early instant messaging client; POW WOW, a prisoner-of-war underground newspaper circulated in Germany during World War II
Dark Hollow is a 2006 horror novel (first published as The Rutting Season) written by Brian Keene.It tells the story of Adam Senft, a struggling writer who discovers that an evil satyr [1] has been summoned by Nelson LeHorn, a local witch.