Woollen Yarn Healing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Philpin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-82 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/flk.1995.34.1.80 |
| OpenAlex | W2020098717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Introduction: There is much in the folk medicine literature from various parts of the world involving the use of ritual measurement in healing. For example, Jones (1930), Hancock (1873), Owen (1870), Winstanley and Rose (1926) and Davies (1911) describe the practice in various parts of Wales. Westropp (1911) refers to ‘head-measuring’ to close the skull and cure headaches in use in Corofin, County Clare. Similarly, St Clair refers to ‘the ribbon of comfort’ used in Ulster to measure and enclose the pain of headaches. Thomas (1971) refers to girdle measuring in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in England and throughout Europe.Ritual measurement is rooted in antiquity. Thorndike (1923) refers to girdle measuring in A.D. 350–430, and Hand (1980) notes that ‘the measuring of people to learn, first of all, whether they are afflicted, and, secondly, to divest them of the disease if they have one, apparently is a practice going back to the time of Pliny the Elder, if not before
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |