
Magic in the United States with Heather Freeman
Heather Freeman returns to the podcast to share her newest podcast project: Magic in the United States. Heather is a Professor of Digital Media at the U...
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Episode 5 - Rootwork and the Great Migration — Magic in the United States
Hoodoo’s origin lies in resistance and survival. Developed by enslaved Black Americans during the antebellum South, Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Conjure practitioners provided medical care and protection. These practices continued to evolve under the continued injustices of Jim Crow and moved North with Bl
Magic in the United StatesIn 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
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