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Heather FreemanIn 1928 Nelson Rehmeyer was murdered. He was Pennsylvania Dutch and a powwower -- a traditional folk healer. But so were his killers, and the media circus around their trial nearly destroyed powwow.
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Episode 3 - The Murder of Nelson D. Rehmeyer — Magic in the United States
Pennsylvania Dutch powwower Nelson D. Rehmeyer was murdered in 1928. The Philadelphia Record called the murder trial “the weirdest and most curiously fascinating [trial] in the history of modern jurisprudence.” Because Rehmeyer’s killers feared he was practicing witchcraft against them, the trial ca
Brian GoodmanNinety-four years ago tonight, on the night of November 27, 1928, a troubled trio - who believed they had been hexed by local powwow/folk magic doctor Nelson Rehmeyer - bound, beat, and murdered the man in his home in an attempt to remove the witch curse.
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A Long Lost Friend: Murder and Magic at Southern Pennsylvania’s Hex House
Somewhere in south-central Pennsylvania, a family is worried. A child has fallen ill and shows no signs of improving. After a fair amount of hand-wringing and soul-searching, a man enters the house to fetch the remedy – not medicine, not a doctor, but a short passage from a small book. Its pages contain neither the telephone number of a trusted physician nor the recipe for a therapeutic elixir, but nonetheless hold a tried and true method of healing. Quite simply, it’s faith. Without a word, the