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...family position, in his Church, as a man. Raped by the local nobleman on what was to have been her wedding night, Elda became pregnant and was sent by her mother to live in the forest with an old woman who gathered herbs and acted as the local healer...
Hence, in this volume, The Jew from Babylon tells of an itinerant sorcerer and healer who travels to a remote village and falls victim to the dark powers that have supported him in his trade. The House Friend features a young man in a Warsaw cafe listening to an older man recount his amorous adventures with married women. The Smuggler describes a visitor with some books to be autographed who pays a call on a writer in his New York City apartment and reveals, with hardly any prodding at all, some secrets...
...issue, which applies equally to Gantry and his partner in passion, the faith healer Sharon Falconer, is, alas, never resolved in the musical adaptation now at Ford's Theater in Washington. Vigorously staged, tuneful and robustly acted, this ambitious work circles outside the characters and never gives them a chance to look deep inside themselves, except in a pair of oblique, cryptic solo songs. Director David H. Bell has let a number of solecisms slip past, including a raunchy Monkey Song about the secret lustfulness of women that is entertaining but out of character for the men of a traveling...
...occasional joint. Episodes are sifted and examined, but not retailed as anecdotes. Some really are conventional stories, or nearly so, with shape and some sort of resolution. Two or three are wholly shapeless, like twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part...
Schelkun subsequently spent two years studying with another healer in the Philippines, and now practices his arts in Marin County. A burly, mustachioed man who likes to wear pink oxford-cloth button-down shirts, Schelkun hardly looks like a wizard. "I don't see disease written on a body with flashing neon lights saying 'Here! Here! Here!' " he says. "I place my hands to connect them to their healing source. My hands are able to feel hot spots, cold spots, pain and symptoms of problems in the body. We're not rocks. We're taught in this society...