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The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta

The Word and Wax explores the fascinating medical folk ritual of wax pouring used by some members of the Alberta Ukrainian community as a means of driving away fear and curing minor ailments. The ceremony is of the magico-religious and…

Tags: Alberta Folklore, Anxiety Treatment, Beeswax Rituals, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Canadian Series in Ukrainian Ethnology, Christian Imagery, Christmas Customs, Community Healers, Cultural Adaptation, Cultural Health Practices, Cultural Heritage, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Ethnographic Research, Fear Sickness, Folk Customs, Folk Medicine Studies, Folk Medicines, Folk Remedies, Health And Culture, Immigrant Adaptation, Magico-religious Rituals, Medical Anthropology, Medical Folk Rituals, Oral Incantations, Pre-Christian Traditions, Rena Jeanne Hanchuk, Ritual Healing, Strakh Vylyvaty, Stress Reduction, Transposed Cultural Traditions, Ukrainian Canadian Literature, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian Ethnography, Ukrainian Folk Medicine, Ukrainian Folklore, Ukrainian Healers, Ukrainian Healing Traditions, Ukrainian Heritage, Ukrainian Immigrants in Canada, Ukrainian Material Culture, Ukrainian Settlers, Ukrainian Storytelling, Ukrainians in Alberta, Village Traditions, Vylyvaty Visk, Wax Ceremony, Wax Healers, Wax Pouring Ritual, Wax Pouring Tradition, Wedding Traditions

Recollections about the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada

Thi is a translation of the memoirs of William Czumer, Spomyny pro perezhyvannia pershykh ukrains'kykh pereselentsiv v Kanadi, which chronicle Ukrainian life in Canada during the first twenty-five years of settlement. See Ukrainians and Alberta in…

Tags: Alberta History, Canadian Immigration, Dublin Core, Early Settlement, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Immigrant Experience, Memoirs, Pioneer Life, Translated Memoirs, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Diaspora, Ukrainian Heritage, Ukrainian Settlers, Ukrainians in Canada, Vasyl Andrii Czumer, William Andrew Czumer, William Czumer

Michael Mucz, Baba ’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada

Tags: Folk Medicines, Robert B. Klymasz, Ukrainian Settlers, Western Canada

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The word and wax : a medical folk ritual among Ukrainians in Alberta

Recollections about the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada

Michael Mucz, Baba ’s Kitchen Medicines: Folk Remedies of Ukrainian Settlers in Western Canada