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This volume -the third in the series of `FOLKLORE OF LEFKADA`, published with great love by the publishing house `GRIGORIS`- refers to a topic that is among the most critical aspects of our folk life, FOLK MEDICINE: A whole world of folk healers and other `specialists` revolved around this ever-pressing issue.
A pseudoscience pinned the hopes of people for relief from the burden of illness; a structured effort of centuries, where one aspect, the magical word and the magical act, drew its strength from supernatural conditions and spirits. And in all this, people’s trust was limitless.
I do not think that a special introduction to the reader is needed for the reading of this book, particularly for the reader of a certain age, who possesses related experiences and possibly knowledge of the matters at hand. As for the younger ones, who may have the patience or curiosity to read it, I hope it serves as a pilgrimage into the lives of their grandparents, who lived a life full of anxieties and -despite that- faced the immeasurable difficulties with an optimistic outlook.
And they will have to wander through rich material, coded or not: Hundreds of herbs and other materials formed the basis of the remedies and recipes used by the folk doctors and healers of Lefkada, combined with spells and magical rituals.
Finally, I believe that the presentation of this aspect of the folk life of our island is a work of owed gratitude and love, and a necessary element for the completion of the identity of the arduous existence of the people of this brief land. Pandazis Kontomichis. Lefkada, May 1988 [Excerpt from the text of the preface]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Pantazis Kontomichis
- Publisher
- Grigori
- Type
- Medicine - Treatments, Folklore, Culture
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 308
- Publication Date
- 1985
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602220030
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