{"collection":"Americana","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_ame_fpg_fpg01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_ame_fpg_fpg01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_ame_fpg_fpg01_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/ame/fpg/fpg01.htm","summary":"BEFORE describing the customs, folk-medicine, and folk-lore of the Pennsylvania Germans, it will be necessary to present a brief sketch of the people to which they relate, and to explain the origin of the dialect generally, though erroneously, denominated \"Pennsylvania Dutch.\"\nSwedish settlers appeared at Tinicum Island, on the Delaware River, about the year 1638, where they held possession until 1655, when they were displaced by the Dutch, who in turn (in 1664) were compelled to give way to\u2026","tags":["Folk Medicine","German American Traditions","Journal of American Folklore","Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore"],"text":null,"title":"Folk-Lore of the Pennsylvania Germans: Part I","tradition":"Americana","translated_text":null,"word_count":4914}