Ask A PA Dutchman: Another Powwow Question!
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- This month's question comes in from Mike Merling of Maryland. Mike wants to know more about the PA Dutch tradition of Powwowing!
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My father in law was really sick as an infant, was hospitalized, sent home basically to die( since there wasn't anything more thr docs could do); a neighbor woman heard about his sickness and asked the parents if she could pow wow over him. She did and he recovered . There's something to be said about the passing down of verbal history and rituals especially those focused on the healing power of The Lord.
My grandmother passed this ability and knowledge to pow wow to her son (my Uncle) and he passed it to me. I am 75 now and have used powwowing to stop bleeding, etc. since I was in my 20"s. I am so impressed that you are talking about this!
Awesome!! Def not allowed to take payment!
I'd love to speak with you! Please contact me if you are willing to talk about it.
I’m pa Dutch. I’d like to learn
It's funny how folk cultures have so many overlaps and similarities sometimes.
I'm PA Dutch and some of my family did Powwow and there were certain verses in the family bible ( ginormous 1800's one, you know the kind) that had notes all through it....and a recipe tucked in the back for bathtub gin, but I digress.
Anyway, one I always remember was the " blood stopping verse" Ezekiel 16:6
So, I go away to Scotland in 1990 for foreign exchange and my boyfriend 's mom called me and asked if I knew the bloodstopping verse.
Now, she wasn't PA Dutch but was from like Kentucky.
I said, " yeah we always used Ezekiel 16:6"
My host mother, was standing near me, and whispered, "is someone bleeding?"
I always found that comical
Anyway the injured party ended up fine.
I'm currently producing a feature film about a Braucherin and her daughter that wants to learn but gets pulled into hex by her grandmother instead :D
My grandmother talked about the family having a pow wow come in for her aunt when when she was little. That was probably in the 1920's.
My great grandma did powwow. I recently asked my 98 year old grandma about it. She said she couldn't tell me about it because we are both women and that I shouldn't talk about it because people will think I'm crazy. I've been trying to study it on my own.
I would love a chance to talk to you about this. I've been a Powwow for over two decades.
Our ancestors definitely were ahead of their time; opposing slavery early on, communal living and free healthcare! I love it. My paternal grandfather (from Schuylkill county) practiced it, and healed my father when he was young boy. I have a copy of the book and am interested in learning.
I work at a farm market outside of Philadelphia and asked one of our Deitsch suppliers from Bucks what he thought about it. He pretty much said that's backwoods superstition, believed in by the poorer frontier folks, the kind that settled in Berks and later Schuylkill. He literally used the word bumpkin. Needless to say, I felt an air of almost like he was looking down his nose at the practice and those who did it. He went to tell me how his ancestors were jewelers. 🤔
I didn't tell him that my ancestors were said frontiersmen, and later on, coal miners.
My Paternal grandparents were also from Schuylkill County and I was basically raised there by them! They were German Reformed (United Church of Christ) and were very much accepting of things like folk magic in the PA Dutch culture.
My family's from Schuylkill County too.
My grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grandfather were blacksmiths but several of my uncles ended up in the mines.
My aunt Ruth knew some Powwow.
Pow wowing featured in the documentary Hex Hollow (2015 I think?), highly recommend watching it if you get a chance. They interviewed a practitioner or two in the film.
I was one of the people interviewed in that movie. I think it was very well done and gave a really good representation of the life of Nelson Rehmeyer.
@@ThePowwwowFam The movie was great, I wish more people had heard of it. Seemed to be very fair to everyone involved as well.
When I was little, my grandmother would say some poem type thing in PA Dutch, waving her hand over our hurt/cut. I wish I remembered it, but the first line meaning was Hail Hail chicken sh*t (or so we were told) and ending with her blowing three times on the hurt! This was in the 50's.
Ja my grandmother cured a burn on my hand this way.
If anybody wants to read the long lost friend, there's a free version online that can be looked up pretty easy. I'll not link it here though since TH-cam doesn't seem to like them, links, nowadays.
The modern annotated edition by Daniel Harms (editor obviously, author is John Hohman back in the 19th century) is really good. It's the only version that includes not only the English, but also the original German alongside notes about the translation and whatnot. Fascinating read and also includes stuff that got introduced into the Long Lost Friend from later rip-off editions.
As well is Patrick Donmoyer's book 'Powwowing in Pennsylvania: Braucherei and the ritual of everyday life' just a super super good read. Best book about Braucherei I've read so far. There're a lot of rather meh books about the subject out there presently and Donmoyer's is the only one of what I'd describe as good academic level quality.
Good quality, lots of pictures, lots of historical background. Not too terribly expensive
Here's a fun one about burns (if seriously burnt please seek medical attention)
This is the 146th one, mildly dark subject matter
Our dear Lord Jesus Christ going on a journey, saw a fire-brand burning: it was Saint Lorenzo stretched out on a roast. He rendered him assistance and consolation; he lifted his divine hand, and blessed the brand; he stopped it from spreading deeper and wider. Thus may the burning be blessed in the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen
German:
für das Verbrennen
Unser lieber Herr Jesus Christ gieng über Land, da sah er brennen einen Brand; da lag St. Lorenz auf einem Rost. Kam ihm zu Hülf' und Trost; Er hub auf seine göttliche Hand, und segnete ihn, den Brand; Er hub, daß er nimmer tiefer grub und weiter um sich fraß. So sey der Brand gesegnet im Namen Gottes bis Vaters, des Sohnes und des Heiligen Geistes. Amen.
(you would probably cross oneself for each of the trinity and potentially hover ones hand over the burn in question while saying this under your breath)
This originally comes from the Romanusbüchlein, a popular and controversial book of.. folk magic? folk christianity? Ritual traditions involving healing and such things in Early Modern German speaking Europe.
note that it rhymes better in German
With our Germans from Russia, yes, to be a Braucher, it is said a male must learn it from a female and a female from a male, that's how it is passed on. I only personally know of one and she's 90 some years old.
Are you learning… ❤❤❤❤I would love to
Brauche practices are largely derived from Martin Luther’s Rite of Baptism. Many of the actions and phrases are taken from that. This video doesn’t mention it but the healing power of brauche is derived from Jesus Christ and are all performed “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
Absolutely, Powwow is a Christian tradition. You are definitely correct in this.
Would love to find one. Have someone in need of healing.
Cheryl, please send me an email: busterpa@yahoo.com
My Mother when she was young was take to a Pow Wow. He said she had the ( Opt Nemme) ? not sure of spelling. It is the taking off. She was skinny and not gaining weight. She had very long hair. The Pow Wow said her hair was taking all the nutrition from her and they cut her hair.
Abnemme is what I've often seen in reading about Braucherei, if you'd like a spelling (means something like 'taking away' i.e. wasting)
That’s pretty weird. I don’t see how cutting her hair would’ve helped anything.
I think it is occultic...Soothsayers and divination is not of God.. Only Prophets and Jesus did miracles. That being said no on person or group is perfect. We have all sinned. Even if attached culturally does not mean its good. The book The Helpers Friend which correlates directly to pow wow is not of God. Doug I enjoy your content, this is a spicy topic though.
I agree. Many aspects of modern christianity were just nicked from the indigenous beliefs of those who converted. Many who converted, kept some of their old practices, but rebranded them. From literal saints like Brigid, folk practices of the commoners like Dia de los Muertos and Zaduszki, to even some holidays and their arrangement in the calender like Christmas. The Slavic lands and global south are rife with hybrid religions.
Christians have been following God's Word since the very beginning, particularly when He says "Call on Me in the day of trouble and I will deliver you, and you will honor Me." Jesus taught that all that He did, His believers would do as well.
@@ThePowwwowFam Which proves that you learned nothing from Dr. Sledge’s videos. Didn’t think you would.
Doug I hope to God that you don't think Socialism is the answer to America's problems.
If you do,I think you need to get out of State College and come home.
That is not what our ancestors fought for.
I noticed a streak of leftist in you.
Better be true to our founders here.
I don't want to get political on this channel,but that comment struck me cold.
Never forget Peter and Frederick Muhlenberg.