Do You Believe in the Old Ways?

Pow Wow time is the Native American people'sthe 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 makeand 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 suchwere typically offered through the catalogues of
as White Eagle, Oklahoma, to some of theJewish-owned curio companies like King Novelty
largest, such as Los Angeles, California. They canand Clover Horn, right alongside an assortment of
take place anywhere from cow pastures topolicy 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 drawLove."However today I would like to talk about a
Native Americans and visitors from hundreds andcompletely different Pow Wow, neither sole
even thousands of miles away.Pow Wow is also aIndian, nor solely European, but old remedies that
compilation of European folk magic that crossedwere passed on from generation to generation.