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The "Western" Folk Healer as a Symbolic Healer: A Case Study from a Magic Ritual in Northern Greece
abstract:The article, based on the author's doctoral research on the life and work of contemporary folk healers with shamanistic knowledge in North East Scotland, explores one key issue when it comes to healing traditions: What kind of healing do these individuals offer? In 1986, anthropologist James Dow, expanding on Daniel Moerman's idea that all spiritual healers are in fact symbolic healers, suggested that these folk specialists use human communication, ritual, and culture-specific symbols as tools to heal others. Drawing from the author's ethnographic fieldwork alongside one such spiritual healer, the article examines the healer's symbolic healing approaches through the example of a spontaneous magic ritual he conducted in autumn 2015 in Greece. The article's goal is to ethnographically demonstrate how the healer's practices fit into Dow's "symbolic healing" scheme as an integral component for the efficiency of his healing practices.
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Preternature provides an interdisciplinary, inclusive forum for the study of topics that stand in the liminal space between the known world and the inexplicable. The journal embraces a broad and dynamic definition of the preternatural that encompasses the weird and uncanny—magic, witchcraft, spiritualism, occultism, esotericism, demonology, monstrophy, and more, recognizing that the areas of magic, religion, and science are fluid and that their intersections should continue to be explored, contextualized, and challenged.
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