Der Zauberschpiggel, the Magic Mirror Hex Signs and the Folk Spirit of the Pennsylvania Dutch |
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Author:
| Fogel, Edwin Singmaster, Elsie Shaner, Richard Stoudt, John Boyer, Dennis Weygandt, Cornelius . Bertolet, Peter Yoder, Russell Yoder, Hunter |
ISBN: | 979-8-7545-3539-8 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2021 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.00 |
Book Description:
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Followup to "Der Volksfreund, Hex Signs, Folk Tales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch." A fascinating collage of art, oral history, folk tales, scholarship and personal, family memory, Der Zauberschpiggel provides unique insight into the mis-named Pennsylvania Dutch, the descendants of immigrants from the Rhine in the Eighteenth Century, to America. The author, an accomplished practitioner of the folk art of those people, and a product of their culture, makes...
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Followup to "Der Volksfreund, Hex Signs, Folk Tales and Witchcraft of the Pennsylvania Dutch."
A fascinating collage of art, oral history, folk tales, scholarship and personal, family memory, Der Zauberschpiggel provides unique insight into the mis-named Pennsylvania Dutch, the descendants of immigrants from the Rhine in the Eighteenth Century, to America. The author, an accomplished practitioner of the folk art of those people, and a product of their culture, makes illustrative use of his own work largely in the form of his Hex Sign paintings, and of his family history, Includes a number of contributors including articles by his brother, scholar Russell Yoder, Dennis Boyer, John Joseph Stoudt, Edwin Miller Fogel and many many more.