User:Eliasell

I am a new user of Wikipedia having just signed up in June of 2010, so please cut me some slack if I make any errors.

My primary interests are as follows:


 * American Folklore and Folk Practices (especially Braucherei or "Pow Wow", hoodoo/rootwork and Appalachian folk practices)


 * Fifing


 * American history (particularly the Colonial and Revolutionary War time periods)


 * Folk practices of the British Isles and Ireland


 * Religious movements of the "Second Great Awakening" and the "Burned Over District" such as spiritualism, Mormonism, the Oneida Community, Millerites


 * The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing (Shakers)


 * Radical Pietism of the 18th and early 19th century - particularly those communities found in Pennsylvania