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From: "Larry M Landis" <>
Subject: Re: [LANDIS] white-magic AND JOHN C LANDIS 1859 - 1926 FAMILYPICTURE
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:48:42 -0700
References: <1170182868.413387@rootsweb.com>


I would like to see the picture.

L

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Subject: [LANDIS] white-magic AND JOHN C LANDIS 1859 - 1926 FAMILY PICTURE


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> Surnames: LANDIS
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> This month's Mennonite Heritage talks about the Bible and white-magic a
> little. I have a copy of this article, but what it is is Bible versus are
> spoken depending on what the "spell" is for. There is one I know of for
> protecting your home from burning/fire and one my great grandmother used
> and I have read about is where a penny or other coin is rubbed on a wart
> and then given to someone with a Bible verse read along with something
> about the wart. The wart is given to whomever gets the coin. There is
> something similar to this where it is buried.
>
> I have read books from prior to Civil War concerning this practice that
> has pretty much died out. It was more of a spoken thing than something
> the illiterate German's could put in writing.
>
> This article mentions Pow-Wow's but I have found them mainly to refer to
> Native American religion and not Mennonites or Brethren. Early 1900's it
> was still practiced, but primarily practiced in smaller religious
> communities of Brethren or Mennists.
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> The photograph is of JOHN C. LANDIS, FRANCES WOOMERT LANDIS, ANNA MARY
> LANDIS, LEVINA ZOOK LANDIS, PAUL W. LANDS, WILLIAM W. LANDIS, JOHN HERR,
> HARRY W. LANDIS, JULIANNE BIRKENBINE LANDIS, JOHN ANDREW BRUCKART, MARY W.
> LANDIS HERR, ANNA W. LANDIS, VICTOR W. LANDIS, JOHN W. LANDIS, EDWARD W.
> LANDIS, EMMA W. LANDIS.
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> Anyone interested, please feel free to inquire.
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