Tagged: Scripture-Faith
29 posts on this topic.
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Easy Homemade Candles
There is so much satisfaction in crafting your own things, like home remedies or candles — here is the quick and easy way to make lovely beeswax candles.
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To Fumigate Impure Air
Impurity can mean many things when it comes to a space you are occupying. It can mean the air is stale. It can mean there is something toxic in the air. It c...
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PA Dutch House Blessings
In the Pennsylvania Dutch culture, a House Blessing is a hand-written letter which offers protection to the bearer of the letter. These are sometimes carried...
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Powwow in the UK
This was written by a student and dear friend of mine, who is a Powwow in the UK.
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Powwow in the garden
Bill and I have many flower gardens on our property. I also have a large vegetable garden and I grow herbs in pots on one of the patios. This year, I added a...
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Healthy Citrus Water
Water is so crucial to our health and well-being, and we don't seem to drink enough of it! Part of the reason might be that water is, well, boring. So I like...
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Wormwood; Biblical Poison
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of wate...
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Annual Powwow household protection ritual
As the moon moves into the sign of Capricorn, I realize it's time to strengthen the protections around my home. This is as much a magical process as it is a ...
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Powwow versus Coronavirus
Powwow is a faith healing tradition. We want you to feel better. It is our calling from God to help you feel better. We believe very strongly that Christ wan...
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What you can expect when you visit your local Powwow...
A hundred years ago, a visit to a local Powwow may have gone something like this:
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Protection from witchcraft
A large part of a powwow's work is combating harmful magic, also known as witchcraft. This type of magic is designed to disrupt, harm, or otherwise cause cha...
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using a knife in powwow
Next to my bible, my pocket knife is my favorite tool for powwowing. I use it in healing charms, anti-hex work, weather work, and all manner of other types o...
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Jesus; the first Hex Doc
Ask any of the old timers who the first powwow doc was and they will undoubtedly tell you it was Jesus himself, "the Good Lord". He went around, preaching th...
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Death of a teacher.
I received an email late last night to inform me that one of my powwow teachers had passed away. I didn't read the email until this afternoon and I have some...
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powwow and the politics of healing
Believe it or not, I've received some nasty emails over the past three years claiming that I'm not a "real" powwow because I don't endorse Candidate A or Can...
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Rocks used in braucherei, by John Ramsey
John Ramsey is a fellow powwower and author of Pennsylvania German Powwow (I'm having trouble putting a link here but it is available on amazon) He sent this...
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Catching a thief - a lesson in being cautious
Last fall, my son's bicycle disappeared. He insisted he had it in our carport, where he always parked it. He was upset and I was furious. We live in a relati...
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folk magic vs ceremonial magic
Sometimes people are surprised to find out I have a few ceremonial ritualistic elements to my powwowing. The surprise is understandable because powwowing is ...
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November 28th, Nelson Rehmeyer Day
As a powwow doctor in south central Pennsylvania, November turns my thoughts to Nelson Rehmeyer. In 1928, long before my time, a local Powwow Doctor was mur...
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Conception Billet: the power of the written word
One of the common identifying traits within Powwowing is the use of himmelsbriefs, or Letters from Heaven. Dating back hundreds of years, himmelsbriefs were...
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der Belsnickel
Before our much Americanized, and commercialized, version of St. Nick, kids growing up in Pennsylvania Dutch homes were taught the Belsnickel story, said Zac...
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Long-Distance PowWow
One of the most common distance charms in the PowWow tradition is the recitation of Ezekiel 16:6 "Then I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own b...
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The SATOR square
The SATOR charm is one of the most popular magical talismans in western occultism, and is a favored within traditional PA Dutch PowWow. It's history is somet...
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Magic Wand: the tool of Christ?
Besides studying Powwow, one of my favorite areas of research is Christianity's history and early development; in particular it's history with magic.
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Ethics of hexing/cursing in Powwow
Some of the older Powwow charms seem to cross the line and step into the realm of cursing or, as it's known in PA Dutch culture, hexerei. Hexerei is malevol...
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Unusual Written Charms
Powwow has many different variations on paper talismans and charms. Most of these are not works of art, nor are they meant to be. A written charm is meant ...
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PowWow charms: spoken or whispered? To touch or not to touch?
When I was originally introduced to PowWow, my teacher taught that one must ALWAYS whisper the spoken parts of the charms; they must NEVER be spoken out loud...
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Cloth Braucher Charms
In other schools of magical thought, the cloth Braucher Charm (also seen referred to as a Brauche Bag) is sometimes called a gris gris bag, a mojo bag, a cha...
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Amulets of Protection
On the surface, we tend to view PA Dutch Pow-wow as a simple country system of folk healing. And that would be a correct view. However, another layer of th...