LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa - Erik Fasick was working hard on a master’s degree at Penn State Harrisburg last spring when he developed pink eye. Both eyes crusted over. With final exams coming up, he could not see.

So the young man went to see Sal, a practitioner of powwow, the Pennsylvania German art of faith healing.

For three nights, Sal laid his hands on Fasick’s eyes and chanted powwow prayers and his own doggerel.

“I felt a warm sensation shooting through my eyes,” Fasick told a packed house at Ephrata’s Eicher Arts Center Wednesday night.

“It was almost as if I was there in my body but I couldn’t move.”

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