Ritual medical lore of Sephardic women : sweetening the spirits, healing the sick / Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002], ©2002.

xi, 260 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.

Keeping the spirits happy, keeping the family healthy -- The Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire -- Memories of time past -- The power of speech -- "Let it go to the garlic!" -- Narrating health, marking the social -- The treasured medicine and the blessed cure -- Prekante: a ritual prayer for curing -- Saradura: the ritual of enclosure.