Name/Title
MAGIC WISP, A History of the Mentally Ill in IrelandEntry/Object ID
2012.2.3246Scope and Content
MAGIC WISP, A History of the Mentally Ill in Ireland. The author, Liam O'Brian, was the superintendent, State Hospital No. 2, St. Joseph, Missouri. One of the booklets 2012.2.3246 B was signed by the author.
The belief that the Druids of ancient Ireland had the power to inflict madness on a person by casting upon him a magic wisp of straw. This had a significant influence on the attitude of the Irish toward their mentally ill..
Reprinted from Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic Vol, 31, No, 2, March 1967.
THE MAGIC WISP was accepted as a thesis in the Scientific Writing Course in the Menninger School of Psychiatry.Collection
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1967 United States of America
