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Sep 13, 2026

BenHOST
68:40
a lot to keep up with.
BenHOST
68:43
This is akin to the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition of eating pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day.
AndrewHOST
68:49
Now, I agree.
AndrewHOST
68:50
How so?
Andy DevineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:45
He not only has trouble with English, he don't speak very good Spanish either.
Guy MadisonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:50
No, partner, that's sort of a Pennsylvania Dutch.
Guy MadisonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:53
But most of it is Fritz's own invention.
Andy DevineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:55
Oh, well, I'm glad I don't have to listen to him very often.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:17
I would send energy, and visualizing myself as the angel that I was working with, standing above their bed and sending them energy, and the next day I'd be like so tired and so worn out.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:28
And I listened to a practitioner talk about the Pennsylvania German Braucherei tradition, and he was saying you should never use your own energy.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:38
And he said, you should use divine energy.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:40
And then I heard somebody on another podcast talking about Reiki.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:42
And I was like, well, I can't be initiated into this closed system of Pennsylvania German folk magic because I live in Kentucky and nobody's doing that here as far as I know.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:55
But here's a Reiki teacher and here's a Reiki class.
Todd ElliottGUEST
43:58
And basically, they're both doing hands-on practice.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
2:03
But underneath this placid surface, In the deep soil of tradition and the whispered stories passed down through generations lies another world, a place of shadow and fear, where the natural and supernatural bleed together.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
2:18
The tales you're about to hear are drawn from this hidden corner of Amish and Pennsylvania Dutch folklore.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
2:24
They are more than mere ghost stories told for a thrill.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
2:27
They are cautionary tales, born from a culture that understands the ever-present reality of evil and the fragility of the human soul.

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Steve StocktonNARRATOR
57:16
Now the fire dies down and the stories are told.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
57:19
A spectral farmer toils for eternity and a child is lost to the whispers of the corn.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
57:25
These tales, born of Amish and of Pennsylvania Dutch soil, leave a chill that lingers long after the final word.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
57:33
They are unsettling, to be sure, but their purpose is not merely to frighten, it is to instruct.
Andy DevineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:42
He not only has trouble with English, he don't speak very good Spanish either.
Guy MadisonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:47
No, partner, that's sort of a Pennsylvania Dutch.
Guy MadisonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:50
But most of it is Fritz's own invention.
Andy DevineSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
14:53
Oh, well, I'm glad I don't have to listen to him very often.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
39:49
Hitherto they, historians, have depended too much upon manuscript evidences.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
39:55
Perhaps the day is not distant when the social historian, whether he is writing about the New England Puritans, or the Pennsylvania Germans, or the rice planters of Southern Carolina, will look underground as well as in the archives for his evidence.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
40:11
End of quote.
Mark SmithNARRATOR
40:12
By Dr. T. J. Wharton-Baker.
Jay GlatfelterGUEST
72:45
And again, she... handles this role so well.
Jay GlatfelterGUEST
72:48
And even her accent, her kind of Pennsylvania Dutch accent.
Jay GlatfelterGUEST
72:51
It's just it's a completely I recently watched Top Gun.
Jay GlatfelterGUEST
72:56
I got on Laserdisc because the full screen Laserdisc actually has more than the widescreen of anything else or whatever.
Matthew MilliganHOST
46:18
Yeah.
Kelly PhillipsPANELIST
46:18
Has somebody from Pennsylvania Dutch country also had to represent? Oh, my God.
Matthew MilliganHOST
46:23
My family, I talked about this in the episode as well, but my family did an annual trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, my entire childhood, after school let out each year, and my poor parents.
Matthew MilliganHOST
46:33
The year this album came out, it's a four-hour drive in the car, and I was like, we're not listening to anything but this song.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
325:25
It seemed that the more years he spent in his fields behind the plow horse, the more he slipped back into the timeless tradition of his forefathers.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
325:35
He was a proud descendant of a long line of staunch German settlers commonly known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
325:43
He grew up in his fundamental religious sect, having never known any other environment.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
325:49
He was exposed to the sun, soil, and wind from the early days of his childhood, and along with the elements, he also was exposed to the evils of the hexerei.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
326:00
The hexerei, or witchcraft, was something that was never doubted or scoffed at by his people.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
326:07
Then why should he, a good Pennsylvania Dutchman, doubt or scoff at such a tradition? Perhaps had he moved away from his ancestral lands and had been cultured in modern communities, been educated and raised in other schools, he might have matured.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
326:26
But having no time for any other diversions than might be found in his rustic homestead, he grew up behind the plow horse, tramping in the dark, stony pasture land, eking out his meager existence from the black fields of Pennsylvania.
Dan GruszynskiNARRATOR
326:45
Now, Peter's life could have gone on unnoticed among these forgotten hills except for the strange visit of Martin G. Meyerstone, student of German history.
Matt CarneyPANELIST
24:15
German Dutch or Dutch Dutch? Dutch Dutch.
Matt CarneyPANELIST
24:18
Pennsylvania Dutch? No.
Matt CarneyPANELIST
24:20
But it's considered a versatile hunting dog.
Matt CarneyPANELIST
24:23
I'm debating between that and like a poodle pointer.

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