| Pow Wow time is the Native American people's | | | | the color line in America. During the 1940s, cheap |
| way of meeting together, to join in dancing, | | | | newsprint editions of "The Black Pullet," "The Sixth |
| singing, visiting, renewing old friendships and make | | | | and Seventh Books of Moses," and the so-called |
| new ones.Today Pow Wow are held all across the | | | | "spurious" magical writings of Albertus Magnus |
| North American continent, from small towns such | | | | were typically offered through the catalogues of |
| as White Eagle, Oklahoma, to some of the | | | | Jewish-owned curio companies like King Novelty |
| largest, such as Los Angeles, California. They can | | | | and Clover Horn, right alongside an assortment of |
| take place anywhere from cow pastures to | | | | policy players' dream books and pamphlets on |
| convention centers, and occur year round. These | | | | "The Art of Kissing" and "How to Make |
| festivals last only one weekend, but usually draw | | | | Love."However today I would like to talk about a |
| Native Americans and visitors from hundreds and | | | | completely different Pow Wow, neither sole |
| even thousands of miles away.Pow Wow is also a | | | | Indian, nor solely European, but old remedies that |
| compilation of European folk magic that crossed | | | | were passed on from generation to generation. |