Pow-Wows; or, Long Lost Friend is a book by John George Hohman published in 1820. Hohman was a Pennsylvania Dutch healer; the book is a collection of home- and folk-remedies, as well as spells and talismans.
A Pennsylvania Dutch variant, c. 1790, of the Sator Square, one of the spells in The Long Lost Friend.
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The Sator Square is a two-dimensional acrostic class of word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome. The earliest squares were found at Roman-era sites, all in ROTAS-form, with the earliest discovery at Pompeii. The earliest square with Christian-associated imagery dates from the sixth century. By the Middle Ages, Sator squares had been found across Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa. In 2022, the Encyclopedia Britannica called it "the most familiar lettered square in the Western world".
A Sator Square (laid out in the SATOR-format), etched onto a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France
Sator square (in ROTAS-form) on the eight-century facade of Abbey of St. Peter ad Oratorium in Italy
One of the four Sator squares (all in ROTAS-form) found at Dura-Europos, Syria, circa A.D 200.
![The oldest known square. Found in 1936 on a column in the Palestra Grande [it] (CIL 8623), it is now kept in the Pompeii Museum.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Sator_Square_Palestra_Pompeii_%28CIL_8623_%26_8622a-b%29.jpg/500px-Sator_Square_Palestra_Pompeii_%28CIL_8623_%26_8622a-b%29.jpg)
The oldest known square. Found in 1936 on a column in the Palestra Grande [it] (CIL 8623), it is now kept in the Pompeii Museum.