In the 1930s, when Joanna (Jan) Raub Ripple was growing up in Raub households in Quarryville and then New Providence, she was attracted to her family’s medical books, particularly those containing ...
There's a nonsensical incantation in Vance Randolph's 1947 book "Ozark Magic and Folklore." An old woman near Conway told Randolph the "charm" was guaranteed to drive off witches. She learned it from ...