The Long Hidden Friend
Or, The Long Lost Friend; historical Pennsylvania German folk magic
by John George Hohman
In 1820, the mysterious German-speaking migrant John George Hohman scraped together what little he had to publish a remarkable collection of material from European occult circles and traditional folk knowledge: Der lange verborgene Freund. Later translated into English as The Long Hidden Friend or The Long Lost Friend (among other names), Hohman's book was embraced by generations of audiences as far afield as southern Appalachia and among practitioners of Hoodoo. This gorgeous publication features the classic critical English edition of the text by philologist Carleton F. Brown (Journal of American Folk-Lore) alongside a new introduction by folklorist Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran and reproductions of incredible Pennsylvania German folk art by Kevin Alexandrowicz.
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Table of Contents
About the art (Alexandrowicz)
About this edition (Hopkins)
Introduction (MacCath-Moran)
The Long Hidden Friend
Introduction (Brown)
Title pages
Preface (Hohman)
A warning from Hyldyr
Means and arts (Hohman)
Index of remedies (Hohman)
Notes (Brown)
Personnel
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Illustrated by Kevin Alexandrowicz
Paperback Edition
326 pages. Perfect bound paperback, printed on high quality semi-gloss paper.
ISBN: 9781966041085
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About the Author
Johann Georg Hohman (also spelled John George Hohman) was a German-American printer, book seller and compiler of collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms. He immigrated to the US from Germany in 1802, settled in the area around Reading, Pennsylvania, in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, where he printed and sold broadsides, chapbooks and books and practised and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which became known as pow-wow. He was active between 1802 and 1846.
