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"Fogous, saints' relics, leeches, physicians, herbalists, witches, apothecaries, charmers, lazar-houses, holy wells, wise-women, crick-stones, chyrurgeons, druggists, cunning-folk, dispensaries, Mesmerists and quacks: all, over many years, contributed to healthcare in Cornwall, and all are discussed in this book. Physick and Folk Medicine, which draws from both historical and folklore records, is the first comprehensive history of its kind. "...>>
"The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to...>>
