The sacred formulas of the Cherokees
By: by James Mooney
Series: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution -- 7th (1885-86) [paper no. 3]; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: G.P.O.
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Medicine; Religion; Cherokee language; Texts; Cherokee mythology; Rites and ceremonies
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How the formulas were obtained; title: Character of the formulas, the Cherokee religion; title: Myth of the origin of disease and medicine; title: Theory of disease: animals, ghosts, witches; title: Selected list of plants used; title: Medical practice: theory of resemblances, fasting, tabu, seclusion, women; title: The ugistaʹ ʻtĭ or pay of the shaman; title: Ceremonies for gathering plants and preparing medicine; title: The Cherokee gods and their abiding places; title: Color symbolism; title: Importance attached to names; title: Language of the formulas; title: Specimen formulas. Medicine ; Hunting ; Love ; Miscellaneous.