I have excellent news! I see that "The Long-Lost Friend" is online in full text: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ame/pow/index.htm This was the book which was a major guide to pow-wow among our Pennsylvania German ancestors. I am certain that there were regional variations on these practices, and some local remedies were omitted, and others included which weren't used here, but this is an excellent guide to the type of thing that we are talking about and how it was used by some of our ancestors, and some among us today. Justin At 08:52 PM 1/25/2007, you wrote: >I remember going to my dad's place of business to get a ride home >from town with him and as I walked in, I noticed an old woman >leaving - dressed in black. This would have been in the mid to late >1940s. Dad said he just sold his wart (on his hand) to a pow-wower. >I was very skeptical, but he showed me it was gone in just a few days. > >Also, my mother-in-law went to a pow-wower who was known for this >"skill" in the Loganton area. This was also in the late 40s or early >50s. She claimed he took care of her physical problems. > >Gloria Harbach > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message