Run Toward the Nightland: Magic of the Oklahoma Cherokee

Minor edge and corner wear to the dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used FIRST EDITION! Very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on the front board and gilt lettering on the spine. 197 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages! Extremely scarce and out-of-print FIRST EDITION! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! "For well over a hundred years, the Oklahoma Cherokees have been writing down their magic in the Sequoyah syllabary, on random scraps of paper or cardboard or in manuscript books that included everything from tiny pocket notebooks to huge ledgers. The authors of Run Toward the Nightland, themselves Cherokees, were able to collect a wide variety of magical incantations, despite the inimical attitude of the Christian majority toward the ancient tribal magic. And their knowledge of ritualistic Cherokee enabled them to translate the tricky wording, abounding in archaisms with which few of today's Cherokees are familiar. The scope of these magical rituals is shown here to wider than has heretofore been recognized by writers on the subject.".…