I cannot wait to read this book. This kind of thing seemed to continue in the Hungarian settlements in the US. I mean the midwife, herbalist,local women. Men were the rulers and women were abused, as well as children. In some families. they were so large, the older children raised the younger. My mother spoke of the local “witch doctor” in South Fork , Pa. My grandmother had gone with her son as he was so ill. The ” witch doctor” told them to look inside the pillow he slept on and they would find a a partially finished feather wreath with red thread. If it had been completed, that was when he would die. They were to take it out and burn it. This is because a “curse ” was put on him. Grandma went home and checked the pillow, did find the almost completed wreath – took it out and burned it and he recovered. My mother swore this to be true as she remembered seeing him recover very quickly.
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