Cunning folk traditions and the Latter Day Saint movement information
Early practices of the Latter Day Saints
This "Holiness to the Lord" lamen, or cloth inscribed with astrological signs and symbols, was one of several owned by the Hyrum Smith family[1]
Cunning folk traditions, sometimes referred to as folk magic, were intertwined with the early culture and practice of the Latter Day Saint movement. These traditions were widespread in unorganized religion in the parts of Europe and America where the Latter Day Saint movement began in the 1820s and 1830s.[2][3] Practices of the culture included folk healing, folk medicine, folk magic, and divination, remnants of which have been incorporated or rejected to varying degrees into the liturgy, culture, and practice of modern Latter Day Saints.[4]
Early church leaders were tolerant of these traditions, but by the beginning of the 20th century folk practices were not considered part of the orthopraxy of most branches of the movement, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).[5] The extent that the founder of the movement Joseph Smith and his early followers participated in the culture has been the subject of controversy since before the church's founding in 1830, and continues to this day.[6][7]
^Luffman, Dale E. The Book of Mormons Witness to Its First Readers. Community of Christ Seminary Press, 2013. ebook location 1719 of 4274
^Walker, Ronald W. (1984) "Joseph Smith: The Palmyra Seer," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 24 : Iss. 4 , Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol24/iss4/5
^Owen Davies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2003);
^Stapley, Jonathan. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology. Oxford University Press, 2018: page 106.
^Stapley, Jonathan. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology. Oxford University Press, 2018: page 4, 107.
^Walker, Ronald W. (1984) "Joseph Smith: The Palmyra Seer," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 24 : Iss. 4 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol24/iss4/5
^For a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologetic point of view, see: https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Joseph_Smith/Occultism_and_magic
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