"Double double toil and trouble" is a quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth that conjures images of evil witches making potions in ...

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The Pennsylvania Dutch have a long tradition of folk medicine, also referred to as “braucherei” or powwowing. To many outside of the culture, those practices are perhaps best known because of a book ...

Many of us fall back on folk medicine remedies for ailments, whether they’re proven to be effective or not. We asked editors ...

The Dakota Memories Oral History Project, in cooperation with Prairie Public Broadcasting, will air a new radio program, "German-Russian Folk Medicine: Old Docs, Prairie Women, and Healing Hands." The ...

Pt. 1: Domestic medicine in the eighteenth century -- Ch. 1. Much that may be called domestic: every man his own doctor -- Ch. 2. The sources: from the pens of eighteenth-century folk -- Ch. 3. The ...

Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey (CNN) — In the little wooden hut perched high on metal-wrapped stilts, the drone is high, loud and insistent. With his beekeeping suit on, but hands uncovered, Hasan Kutluata ...