Walk in Your Soul: Love Incantations of the Oklahoma Cherokees (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)
by Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts
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- good
- Hardcover
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About This Item
Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some edge and corner wear to the dj with a little chipping here and there as well; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION! Very rare and hard-to-find title! Inscribed by the author "To Keith, With the very best wishes Jack and Anna" on the ffep! Yellow cloth quarterbound by blue with gilt lettering on the spine and a black illustration and gilt lettering on the front. 164 informative and magical pages! Extremely scarce SIGNED FIRST EDITION! "Oklahoma Cherokee erotic magic, the authors of Walk in Your Soul tell us, has been preserved down the years in manuscripts possessed sometimes by the laity, but of course most often by medicine men. It has been found in everything from huge ledgers to stamp-sized slips of paper. 'Grocery lists are enlivened with incantations for making a woman lovesick, and staid family records are spiced with information on how to 'rebeautify' oneself.' It has, however, remained little know; the Space Age medicine man is as uncommunicative as his predecessors, and the modern layman has little acquaintance with it. Furthermore, proficiency in ritualistic Cherokee is increasingly rare. Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick are among the few still having complete command of this ritualistic language and also having, through the credentials of their own ancestry, the confidence of a reticent people...." (SIGNED FIRST EDITION).
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- Title
- Walk in Your Soul: Love Incantations of the Oklahoma Cherokees (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)
- Author
- Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Southern Methodist University Press
- Place of Publication
- Dallas, Texas
- Date Published
- 1965
- Pages
- 164
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- INDIANS HISTORY NATIVE AMERICANS AMERICAN STUDIES TRIBES TRIBAL RITES INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SOCIOLOGY GENEAOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGY UNITED STATES MYTHS LEGENDS MYTHOLOGY FOLKTALES FOLKLORE INCANTATIONS MEDICINE MAN CHEROKEE RITUALS RITUALISTIC LANGUAGE
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