Ritual medical lore of Sephardic women
Subtitle: sweetening the spirits, healing the sick
By: Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.
Contributors: Zumwalt, Rosemary Lévy, 1944-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Sephardim -- Folklore; Sephardim -- Medicine; Jewish women -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Jewish women -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Traditional medicine; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Keeping the spirits happy, keeping the family healthy -- The; title: Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire --; title: Memories of time past -- The; title: power of speech --; title: "Let it go to the garlic!" --; title: Narrating health, marking the social -- The; title: treasured medicine and the blessed cure --; title: Prekante: a ritual prayer for curing --; title: Saradura: the ritual of enclosure.