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Popular Home Remedies and Supersitions: of the Pennsylvania Germans
by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.
The Aurand Press, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, (unknown year), 32pp, PH.
[America, 17-19C]

Chapters
• Forward by Logan Clendening
• "Home Remedies" and "Supersitions" of the Pennsylvania-Germans
• Childhood and its Demands on Man
• Folk Medicine and Old Superstitions
• Have Good Luck -- Avoid Bad Luck
• Form Habits in Dressing and Sewing
• Weather "Forecasting" is Important
• We Examine Special Days and Seasons
• Laws for the Farmer and Woodsman
• "Musts" in Cooking, Baking, Planting
• Care of the Teeth Known to Ancients
• Dreams and What they Mean to Us
• Witches and our own Superstitions
• Ideas for Getting a Future Husband
• Marriage Lore and Natural Trends
• Sex-Lore and Pre-Natal "Influences"
• Death and How to "Circumvent" it
• "Omens" about Deaths and Funerals
• Moving, or "Flittin'" Day
• Cattle Deaths at Dillsburg
• Lynching and Witchcraft

Illustrations
• The Herb Doctor