Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
Subtitle: Sweetening the Spirits, Healing the Sick
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780252026973
Subjects: Medical Anthropology; Women In Judaism; Social Science; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Anthropology - Cultural; Folklore & Mythology; Judaism - General; 19th century; Folklore; Jewish women; Medicine; Sephardim; Social life and customs
First sentence: For the Sephardim, as for so many other peoples, the relationship with the spirit world was fraught with danger.