The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-16
PRAYER THE HEALING BALM
Aged Peter Bausher, Of the Blue
Mountains, the Magician,
He Claims That for One Hundred and
Fly Years His Family Has Known
TIE Prayers for Various Cures.
A Special Prayer for Each
Affection.

Aged Peter Baushor lives in rougn
hewn log hut at the base Of the Blue
mountains in northern Berks county,
Pa He rs n famous powwow man. aud
his services have been freely given for
the last so years Added to his excel
lent ncighborly qualities is the fact that
he is sincere Christian And vet no
practices magic healing. The mountain
GERS say he has performed wonderful
cures, and for this reason his services
were in great demand. But he is too old
now to venture far from home In his
own way he told this story Of his life:
Ny father could pow-wow. So could
his father. For $50 years the Baushcrs
Of my family knew the prayers for vari-
Gus cures, Powwow healing is by faith
and prayers. We do it all in the German
language. For each affiictiun there is II
special prayer. None of my prayers
heals so quick us the one uso for hem
orrhage Ihave frequently stopped a So
yious flow Of blood in Minute afto<
powwowing. Pains from burns cure
the same way. Erysipelas, wildiiro, fell
ons, lameness. spraius, poison, plague
and many other Affections, such Us vast.
1sg away, fits, st. Anthony's dance. af-
fliotions of the nerves, quickly disappear
with powwowing.
II use no medicine, only words, said
rilently. The words I know were hand
ed down from father to son. They were
never written. 1 thinl, my great great
grandfather handed down the words |
now use. What they were when he first
used them don't know, but they have
changed, no doubt If my secret is not
to die with me, I must tell my Oldest
son, but he says he will have nothing 10
do with it. OF course l can tell y wo-
man, but not man, except my oldest
sen. Man tells woman, and woman tells
man. You must be near the person and
SEQ him when You powwow for him.
Il never made any charge in my life
dare not. My gift must he given en-
tiroly without price.
While powwowinr is all right for
certain Affections. yet when a person
has typhoid fever, diphthcria or ANY
dangerous disease like that, then my
advice is to send for reputable doctor
at once and don't bother with pow
wowing. But there are some things
thap doctors cSn { touch. Powwuwin.
can heal and cure every time The pa
tent, CT course, must have, first of all,
the strongest faith III the powwow, or it
won It do any good.
Il only try TO cure people and help
the afflicted a person must go under
instructions. But it is common thing
to meet old women who can powwow
for burns or bloodletting. Their Inns
bands told them how to do it. Their
cures to tho outside world would seem
very curious, not to say startling. Peo-
pie take the treatment us naturally as
they drink water and think nothing Of
it But it is the mysterious, battling af-
fictions OF human life that powwowing
helps and cures. Many a person doclin-
ing TO the grave under Il strange un-
known spell is helped and the consum-
ing evil spirit within him is driven out
by prayer or poWwow alone, and the
sufferer is healed. Nearly all the good
old powwowers are dead. New York
Sun.