I’d like to talk a little bit more about passing down healing in the Ozark tradition. Some of the information in this post comes from Vance Randolph’s “Ozark Magic and Folklore”, other bits come fr…
‘I once heard of a man who was passed certain charms from his great aunt who, as family legend has it, got them from a man inside of a huge sycamore tree. The first charm came to her when she was hunting for blackberries in the woods. She heard a voice coming from behind a tree and thought it was one of her brothers playing a trick on her. But seeing no one around she stepped closer to the tree and heard the voice again. It was a man’s voice, muffled, coming from within the tree. He taught her one charm each day for ten days then the voice disappeared. She always said the man must have been the ghost of some “Indian” that had died beneath that sycamore tree.’