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Ayatullah, Humaeni. "RITUAL MAGI DALAM BUDAYA MASYARAKAT MUSLIM BANTEN." IBDA` : Jurnal Kajian Islam dan Budaya 13, no. 2 (2015): 26–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/ibda.v13i2.660.

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This article discusses various magical rituals and their meaningsfor Muslim society of Banten. How the meanings and functions of rituals; what kinds of magical rituals used and practiced by Muslim society of Banten become two main focuses of this article; besides, it also tries to analyze how Muslim society of Banten understand the various magical rituals. This article is the result of a field research using ethnographical method based on anthropological perspective. To analyze the data, the researcher uses structural-functional approach. Library research, participant-observation, and depth-in

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Rountree, Kathryn. "How Magic Works: New Zealand Feminist Witches' Theories of Ritual Action." Anthropology of Consciousness 13, no. 1 (2002): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ac.2002.13.1.42.

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Mahyuddin Ismail, Jahid Sidek, and Nurkarimah Yusof. "Human Sacrifice In Witchcraft Ritual: A Need For The Anti Witchcraft Law." Journal of Fatwa Management and Research 26, no. 2 (2021): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.33102/jfatwa.vol26no2.398.

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Witchcraft or black magic is among the ancient mystical ritual in the world. It involves the engagement of jinn and demons with specific purposes. Based on literature, there were cases of human sacrifice in witchcraft ritual. This study specifically seeks to explore the rituals of demonic worship and human sacrifice in witchcraft. This study applies library research particularly by analyzing history and legal background of the issue. In some court cases, it was proven that these practices of detestable witchcraft require certain organs of a human body, especially of a child, to be one of the d

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Fujda, Milan. "Komplexita, rituál, víra a „bytí spolu“: Zdroje nejistoty a techniky jejího zvládání, případ taneční improvizace." Sociální studia / Social Studies 17, no. 2 (2020): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2020-2-33.

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In this article I analyse the handling of uncertainty in dance improvisation performance. I focus on the sources of uncertainty together with techniques used to manage it. I also show that magic practices are integrated among these techniques and that all the described techniques are pragmatic and reasonable, though they do not provide guaranteed effects. This leads to an analysis of the possible role of belief in ritual practice. The efficiency of ritualist magic in handling uncertainty is ascribed to its ability to create an intimately supportive atmosphere of mutual reliability. Belief rega

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Nissinen, Martti. "Why Prophets Are (Not) Shamans?" Vetus Testamentum 70, no. 1 (2020): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685330-12341434.

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Abstract The article explores the interface of prophecy and shamanhood from the point of view of intermediation, divination, and magic; performance and cosmology; gender; and social status. The most significant thing in common between prophets and shamans is the role of an intermediary and the superhuman authority ascribed to their activity. Other similarities include the performance in an altered state of consciousness, gender-inclusiveness, as well as some ritual roles and forms of social recognition. The action of the prophets rarely reaches beyond the transmission of the divine word, where

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Khakimyanova, Aigul M. "Словесно-поэтический репертуар башкирской свадьбы: прошлое и настоящее". Oriental Studies 13, № 5 (2020): 1476–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2020-51-5-1476-1487.

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Introduction. Bashkir wedding is one of the most striking forms of traditional culture. Over centuries of evolution, a complex set of ideological and functional related ritual songs, actions, myths and rituals has formed as an integral festive and theatrical performance. This surprisingly unique performance (drama) reflects the worldview of the people, their poetic and musical culture, including peculiarities of social, everyday and social development. The ideology of caring for the welfare of the family and happy family future has been developed and vividly captured in the wedding rituals. Ge

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Ivanchuk, Vasyl. "Аpotropaic actions of overturning, sticking, smashing as means of defense against the deceased and his demonic hypostases in hutsul myth and ritual practices". Ethnic History of European Nations, № 62 (2020): 25–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2020.62.03.

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Apotropaic magic actions based on overturning, sticking, smashing are examined on the basis of folkloric and ethnographic discoveries of late 19th and early 20th centuries, and modern authorial field case studies from Hutsulshchyna area. The importance of the topic is determined by polysemantic, and different chronological elements of the archaic culture that these practices contain; they allow us to integrally and systematically research the constituents of funeral ritualism, and also particular occasional phenomena. It is defined that physical actions of overturning, sticking, smashing in Hu

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Pozhodzhuk, Dmytro. "Needles in the ritual of cattle-breeding magic of the Volyn inhabitants." V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin "History of Ukraine. Ukrainian Studies: Historical and Philosophical Sciences", no. 32 (July 12, 2021): 6–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2227-6505-2021-32-01.

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Purpose: based on field ethnographic materials collected by the author, to describe the cattle-breeding rites associated with the use of needles (“strain milk on needles”, “cook a strainer with needles”) on the historical and ethnographic territory of Volyn, and to find out their regional peculiarity. Research methodology is based on the comparative historical and descriptive methods, principles of historicism and objectivity. The main material for this study was collected by the author during the field historical and ethnographic expeditions on the territory of Volyn using the pre-compiled th

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TYSHCHENKO, Oleh, Igor KOROLYOV, and Oleksandra PALCHEVSKA. "Cultural and Cognitive Structure of the Omen: Epistemology, Axiology and Pragmatics." WISDOM 18, no. 2 (2021): 137–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v18i2.476.

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The article presents the cognitive categorization principles in different ritual and non-ritual situations. The semantics, structure and pragmatics of omens as well as that of the related cultural concepts in the archetypal world model is based on ethnosemiotic and cognitive analysis aspects, folklore pragmatics elements and the cultural text verbal magic. The omens realize such significant for folk culture oppositions as good-evil, life-death, top-bottom, male-female, etc., as well as the connection with various traditional culture codes – action, ?bject, zoomorphic, artifactual, sociomorphic

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Demianova, Yulia. "NEGATIVE WISHES. LINGVISTIC AND CULTUROLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF MOTIVES AND IMAGES." Visnyk Zaporizkoho Natsionalnoho Universytetu / Zaporizhzhia National University Herald 2010, no. 1 (2014): 173–79. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10962.

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Kurochkin, Oleksandr. "Ritual Dance-games – Little Explored Components of Ukrainian Traditional Wedding." Dance Studies 2, no. 2 (2019): 118–36. https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7646.2.2.2019.188813.

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The purpose of the article is to introduce into scientific circulation and summarize new materials that allow you to get acquainted with the traditional wedding dances of Ukrainians. Methodology. The study was conducted on the basis of an interdisciplinary approach, through a systematic analysis of literary, documentary, ethnographic and folklore materials. Scientific novelty. For the first time, an attempt was made to determine the roles, functions and semantics of ritual dance-games as an integral part of the traditional wedding ceremony of Ukrainians. Conclusions. The pl

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Матлин, Михаил Гершонович. "Fire in Traditional Russian Weddings in the Ulyanovsk Volga Region." ТРАДИЦИОННАЯ КУЛЬТУРА, no. 4 (November 25, 2020): 103–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.26158/tk.2020.21.4.008.

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В статье рассматривается использование огня на русской традиционной свадьбе Ульяновского Поволжья в контексте общерусской и частично общеславянской традиции. Отмечается, что осмысление этого обрядового акта - зажигание костра на свадьбе началось еще в конце XIX в. и продолжается вплоть до сегодняшнего дня. Широкое распространение эта традиция получила и на территории Ульяновской области. Анализ записей позволил построить типологию свадебных костров в зависимости от времени и места их проведения: костер разжигали на первый день после венчания; ночью под окнами дома, в котором ночевали молодые;

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Rizaldi, Miftahul. "Superstition in G.R.R Martin’s Fire and Blood." LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (2024): 37–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26740/lk.v11i2.58536.

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Superstition is about the human mind and behavior, based on different reasons and aimed at different purposes. It has many forms, from a belief about specific events, omen, and rituals, which can be found in every part of the world. This research discusses a study of the Superstition in the book Fire & Blood (2018) by G.R.R Martin. The study aims at describing the Superstition and unveiling the impact of Superstition on the characters of Westeros in Fire & Blood. The book is the primary source of data and collects the data, which, in this case, will be reading the book thoroughly and l

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Arief, Andi Adri, Harnita Agusanty, Muhammad Dalvi Mustafa, and Kasri Kasri. "Kepercayaan dan Pamali Nelayan Pulau Kambuno di Sulawesi Selatan." Satwika : Kajian Ilmu Budaya dan Perubahan Sosial 5, no. 1 (2021): 56–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22219/satwika.v5i1.15816.

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Nelayan tradisional di pulau kecil memandang dirinya bersama alam fisik dan alam metafisik berada dalam satu sistem kehidupan antara mikro kosmos dan makro kosmos yang harus selaras. Oleh karena itu, pengetahuan yang mereka miliki serta ritual yang mereka lakukan berkaitan erat dengan mitos, kultus, ritus, magis, dan pamali sebagai pedoman yang dipergunakan dalam menjalankan aktivitas kehidupannya sehari-hari. Tujuan penelitian untuk menganalisis kepercayaan dan pamali nelayan pulau-pulau kecil sebagai tata kelakuan yang dipengaruhi oleh unsur budaya lokal dan berpenetrasi ke dalam sistem sosi

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Laishley, Lilan. "South Indian Ritual Dispels Negative Karma in the Birth Chart." Culture and Cosmos 19, no. 1 and 2 (2015): 251–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.46472/cc.01219.0227.

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This paper examines the practice of celestial magic in contemporary South India as it relates to the individual birth chart. Specific celestially oriented rituals are understood to minimize the unpleasant effects of the birth chart and positively influence the planetary deities. The rituals incorporate various magical objects and actions including puja, mantras, prayers, yantras, ceremonial offerings, icons, gemstones, and shrines. This paper is based on participant observation during a research trip to Tamil Nadu, South India, where an astrologer suggested a ritual was needed to clear the neg

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Matyushina, Inna G. "ON THE FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GENRES IN SKALDIC POETRY." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 1 (2024): 77–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-1-77-109.

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The article analyses the functional characteristics of the main genres of skaldic poetry: panegyric verse, memorial poems (erfidrápur), shield poems (skjaldardrápur), head-ransom verse (höfuðlausn), love poetry (mansöngr) and libellous poems (níð). Olga Freidenberg’s conception of the salvational and chthonic functions of the word is applied to the genres of skaldic poetry which are discussed in the paper. Skaldic libellous verse (níð), rooted in rune magic, is endowed with a chthonic function, whereas head-ransoms characterised by autonominative, equitemporal semantics, acquire a salvational

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Lyapin, Denis A. "Fur as a feature of Russian traditional wedding ceremony." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 61 (2021): 8–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2021-61-8-19.

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Fur is a significant feature of many ritual actions in traditional Russian culture. Although there is a lot of material on this subject it continues to escape a closer scientific attention. This paper looks at filling this gap and showing the role of fur in Russian wedding rituals. The author gives examples related to the use of fur at a wedding and analyzes wedding songs and additional material. Results obtained led to conclusions that the fur in the wedding ritual was of dual importance. It was used as a magical item endowed with the function of fertility and procreation. It was associated w

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Tibaldi, Marta. "Active imagination, extraversion, cross-culture: Guan Yin and Chinese divination." Proceedings of the Wuhan Conference on Women 3, no. 2 (2020): 278–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/ppc.v3n2.2020.278.

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In the Far East, Guan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, is the one who "listens to the cries of the world". Depicted by gigantic white statues, she is the feminine personification of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara and represents an archetypal figure dear to Chinese women and men. In Hong Kong and in Taipei, Taiwan, she is consulted by throwing two moon blocks or ritual sticks according to the rules of Chinese divination. The goddess is a real presence who acts in a real way: when questioned, she answers, defying a synchronistic and extraverted field of knowledge and meaning. The author highlights th

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IAKOVLIEVA, Olga, and Viktoriia HRYHORASH. "RITUALS ON CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS AS A GENDER-MARKED DISCOURSE IN TRADITIONAL UKRAINIAN CULTURE." Lingua Montenegrina 25, no. 1 (2020): 417–33. https://doi.org/10.46584/lm.v25i1.782.

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The article reveals one of the longstanding oppositions of the male and female principles, taking into account axiological characteristics. The reasons for the destruction of patriarchal gender stereotypes, which are preserved in the Ukrainian ceremonial discourse, in particular during the Christmas holidays, are considered. The manifestations of stereotypes of femininity and masculinity in rituals during the preparation and the holiday itself (Christmas) in different regions of Ukraine are analysed in detail. The authors have identified, described and explained regional „inconsistencies“ in

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Baiazitova, Rozaliia R. "ELEMENTS OF ANCIENT BELIEFS IN BASHKIR MATERNITY RITUALS." Proceedings of the UFRC RAS. Series: History. Philology. Culture 1, no. 3 (2024): 261–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31833/sifk/2024.1.3.029.

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The article deals with some customs and rituals associated with childbirth. The relevance of the conducted research is conditioned by the growing interest in the role of ethno-cultural values in modern society and increasing attention to the previously underexplored phenomena of everyday life. The study of folk customs, rituals and representations related to childbirth will contribute to the understanding of the deep layers of Bashkir spiritual culture. Maternity rituals represent an important aspect of Bashkir cultural tradition. It encompasses prenatal, as well as birth and postnatal rituals

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Pashkova, T. V. "Religious and mythological ideas of Karelians about smallpox, rubella, measles and chicken-pox diseases." VESTNIK ARHEOLOGII, ANTROPOLOGII I ETNOGRAFII, no. 1(64) (March 15, 2024): 151–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2024-64-1-13.

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about smallpox, rubella, measles and chickenpox diseases Traditional medicine has always triggered genuine interest among researchers. It reflects not only medical practice, ra-tional and irrational, but also prognostics of diseases, beliefs, conspiracy traditions, ritual magic, etc. Mythology occupies a significant place in ethnomedicine as well, affecting not only the cause-effect relationship between the occurrence of an ailment and abolition of it, but also the designation of some diseases, the nomination of which is motivated by the mythological percep-tions of the people. Christianizatio

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Pavlova, O. Y. "SEMANTIC SHIFT FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE TRANSFORMATION LOGIC OF CULTURAL PRACTICES (PART 2)." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 2 (7) (2020): 72–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2020.2(7).13.

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The article is devoted to analyze of the signification mode of symbolic architecture. An attempt is carried out to detect the difference between the symbolic form of the ritual and the symbolic architecture, as well as the semantic shift that this distinction causes the organization of symbols to generate. Application of strategies of semantic analysis to the material of aesthetics G. Hegel allows not only to expand the horizons of applied applied semantics, but also to understand the patterns of formation of artistic culture and aesthetic process in general. Using strategies of semantic analy

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Pavlova, O. Y. "SEMANTIC SHIFT FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE (part 1)." UKRAINIAN CULTURAL STUDIES, no. 1 (4) (2019): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/ucs.2019.1(4).03.

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The article is devoted to analyze of the signification mode of symbolic architecture. An attempt is carried out to detect the difference between the symbolic form of the ritual and the symbolic architecture, as well as the semantic shift that this distinction causes the organization of symbols to generate. Application of strategies of semantic analysis to the material of aesthetics G. Hegel allows not only to expand the horizons of applied semantics, but also to understand the patterns of formation of artistic culture and aesthetic process in general. Using strategies of semantic analy- sis to

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Torri, Giulia. "A Hittite Magical Ritual to Be Performed In an Emergency." Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 4, no. 1 (2004): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1569212042653446.

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AbstractThe Hittite magical ritual KUB 17.28 ii 33-61 iii 1-17 is part of a Sammeltafel in which rites of different character and content are collected. The aim of this paper is to show how the ritual under discussion was performed directly by the patient, without the guidance of any magician. The person acting out the ritual was a victim of a curse, expressed through the idiom lalan karp -, performed against him with malevolence. The ritual itself is characterized by actions mixed together with three oral rites: a magic analogy expressed through a simple simile, a short personal prayer, and a

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Swartz, Michael D. "“Like the Ministering Angels”: Ritual and Purity in Early Jewish Mysticism and Magic." AJS Review 19, no. 2 (1994): 135–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009400005717.

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Students of religion are aware that the same ritual act can have many meanings depending on the cultural context. As Walter Kaelber observes, “Viewed cross-culturally, a given ascetic form may have different, even opposite objectives.” Accordingly, the same detail may have entirely opposite meanings in different ascetic regimens. Thus for the biblical Daniel and his ascetic heirs, beans were an ideal food, probably because they are dry and not susceptible to impurity; but for Pythagoreans and others, they were to be avoided perhaps because in certain Mediterranean populations, they presented a

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Polianska, I. M. "Specificity and functions of a dance as a component of syncretic “mousikē” art of the Ancient world." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 51, no. 51 (2018): 274–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-51.16.

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Background. The rapid development of contemporary art has intensified the scientific thought in relation to the theory and history of dancing art. Domestic art criticism pays much attention to the problems of dancing functioning in contemporary culture; periodicals publish theoretical and methodological works, general critical reviews of ballet performances. In historical plane, the majority of publications contain information about outstanding artists – performers and choreographers of various times and stylistic trends. However, the evolution of a dance as a socio-cultural and artistic pheno

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Gazzard, Alison, and Alan Peacock. "Repetition and Ritual Logic in Video Games." Games and Culture 6, no. 6 (2011): 499–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412011431359.

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By moving away from a model of ritual that focuses on magic and fantasy worlds, this article seeks to broaden the discussion of ritual actions, performances, and objects in first- and third-person video games. Ritual will be understood through the idea of a “ritual logic” that enables the wider associations of ritual in the virtual as opposed to the real world to be analyzed, and through the key element of repetition in game play. In part derived from the intertextuality of video game genres and associated popular culture artifacts such as films and novels, ritual logic contributes to the play

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Koropnichenko, Hanna. "Ancient Beliefs and Traditional Singing of Ukrainians: Gender Differentiation." Problems of music ethnology 16 (December 29, 2021): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.31318/2522-4212.2021.16.249648.

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Gender differentiation in the Ukrainian song tradition is most consistently manifested in the ritual system, and partly – in the epic tradition and lyrical song tradition. The primary attention in the article is paid to the ritual sphere, first of all to the calendar cycle. The paper highlights in detail the traditional distribution of functions between men and women in pre-Christian rituals, during which, according to ancient ideas and beliefs, there was some contact between «that» (sacred) and «this» («profane») worlds. Males, or more precisely, boys who were members of the so-called «

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Bill, Jan. "Protecting Against the Dead? On the Possible Use of Apotropaic Magic in the Oseberg Burial." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26, no. 1 (2016): 141–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774315000438.

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The use of apotropaic practices, that is, of magic to protect against evil, is sometimes included in archaeological interpretations on the basis of similarities between archaeological objects and objects used in historically documented or present-day apotropaic practices. The present article attempts to develop the archaeological study of apotropaism by focussing on apotropaic ritual, in addition to apotropaic devices. The case study is a burial in ad 834 of a high-ranking Viking Age woman in the Norwegian Oseberg ship grave. Drawing on cognitive magic ritual theory, the study focuses on ident

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Ivanytskyi, Anatolii. "Features of the Neolithic Era in Folk Music." Bulletin of KNUKiM. Series in Arts, no. 47 (December 26, 2022): 42–51. https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1176.47.2022.269554.

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The purpose of the article is to come closer to the understanding of solstices in the beliefs and rituals of the Neolithic man and to pay attention to one of the features of calendar folklore – the "flow" of rituals of one solar cycle into the next. Methodology. The following methods were used in the research: source study (processing of existing studies on the sacred and profane picture of the world created in the Neolithic, which is known to us in the form of various structural and typological models); analytical (comprehension of the Neolithic and its echoes in mus

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Tsonkova, Svetlana. "In Our World: Human Agency in Medieval and Early Modern Bulgarian Verbal Magic." New Europe College Yearbook 2016-2017 (April 7, 2023): 129–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.58367/necy.2023.1.5.129-154.

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This article deals with verbal magic, seen as power interaction between the human realm and the realm of the supernatural. Based on source material of approximately 200 medieval and early modern Bulgarian verbal charms, the study exmines the human agency in the belief system and practice of verbal charming. First, the article analyses the ritual performance, with its instructions, actions, paraphernalia, settings, human actors and proxemics. Then, the study deals with verbal amulets as major application and manifestation of verbal magic. Finally, the article investigates the ellusive figure of

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Vaitkevičienė, Daiva. "Verbal Charm Vs. Prayer: An Emic Approach To The Lithuanian Terminology." Incantatio. An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming 12 (2025): 32–62. https://doi.org/10.7592/incantatio2024_12_vaitkeviciene.

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In 20th-century folkloristics, it was commonly held that prayer was a religious phenomenon, while verbal charms were associated with magic. However, this dichotomy formed by scholars is often not accurate or useful in practical terms when attempting to differentiate between these genres. In Lithuania, verbal charms and prayers form a common text corpus, and the emic terms užkalbėjimas “verbal charm” and malda “prayer” do not align with the etic system of folklore classification, which categorizes them as separate genres. In an emic perspective the Lithuanian word malda encompasses a broad cate

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Bilțiu, Pamfil. "Ciuma în folclorul maramureșan și românesc." Anuarul Muzeului Etnograif al Transilvaniei 33 (December 20, 2019): 58–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.47802/amet.2019.33.04.

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Our study, based mainly on field research, aims to address aspects of plague description in the Romanian folklore and, in particular, in the folklore specific to Maramureş area. After placing the plague in the family of anthropomorphized diseases, we recorded the plague epidemics in Maramureş and throughout the country. At the same time, we reproduced the oldest documentary evidence of the plague, belonging to doctor Rufus of Ephesus. The research part of our study is the analysis of the physiognomic details of the plague, as well as its specific features, as they appear in Maramureş folklore

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Watt, Jeffrey R. "Calvin’s Geneva Confronts Magic and Witchcraft: The Evidence from the Consistory." Journal of Early Modern History 17, no. 3 (2013): 215–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342366.

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Abstract This essay examines the actions of the Consistory of Geneva, a morals court created and dominated by John Calvin, against reputed cases of magic and superstition. During the ministry of Calvin, the most common of these involved white magic to cure people of various illnesses. The Consistory was not unduly harsh in dealing with therapeutic magic, usually just rebuking the miscreants and temporarily excluding them from communion. It also showed a remarkable degree of skepticism when confronting accusations of maleficia, at times viewing the allegations as a form of defamation of the per

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Mamcheva, N. A. "Ainu percussion instruments." Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, no. 41 (2021): 32–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/10.25205/2312-6337-2021-1-32-46.

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Ainu people are the indigenous inhabitants of Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and Hokkaido. This work aimed to study Russian and Japanese museum funds, analyze musical transcripts performed by the author, and review Russian and Japanese academic literature. The article deals with the percussion musical and sound instruments of the Ainu – idiophones and membranophones. The term “sound instrument” refers to archaic sound instruments that were not usually perceived as musical. They were considered as such only at the moment of their sounding. The author pays special attention to poorly studied instr

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Wardizal, Wardizal. "Realitas Magis pada Musik Tradisi Minangkabau: Sebuah Perspektif Kajian Budaya." Journal of Music Science, Technology, and Industry 5, no. 1 (2022): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31091/jomsti.v5i1.1979.

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Purpose: This paper aims to briefly discuss the magical aspects of traditional Minangkabau music. Magical reality is found in some traditional music such as the use of spells, the process of making musical instruments, how to treat musical instruments and the use of facilities in musical performances. This article aims to understand the form and function of magical practice in the context of Minangkabau traditional music. Research Methods: This phenomenon is discussed through the perspective of cultural studies as a form of dialectic between adat (art processes) and the religion of the Minangk

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Ofrim, Alexandru, and Lucia Terzea-Ofrim. "Écrire pour guérir. Les formules magiques écrites dans la médecine populaire roumaine (XVIIe-XXe siècles)." Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies 6, no. 1 (2023): 100–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v6i1.24897.

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In traditional Romanian society, where the vast majority of the population was illiterate, writing remained mysterious and inaccessible. For the peasants from the Romanian village, writing and the book have acquired separate meanings, being used in a particular way through magico-religious rituals. In order to defend against the action of evil forces and for the healing of the sick body, the traditional community instituted ceremonial, apotropaic and thaumaturgical practices, involving a set of alternative uses of writing. The clerics played an important role in consolidating these practices.

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Sillar, Bill. "The Social Agency of Things? Animism and Materiality in the Andes." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (2009): 367–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774309000559.

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A major focus of inter-disciplinary debate has been the need to bridge the Cartesian divide between people as active subjects and inert passive objects, to better reflect how things provoke and resist human actions through their ‘secondary agency’. Many Central Andean people express a deep concern about their relationship with places and things, which they communicate with through daily work and rituals involving ‘sympathetic magic’. A consideration of Andean animism emphasizes how agency is located in the social relationship people have with the material world and how material objects can hav

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Maxim, Zoia, and Ioana Bădocan. "Lichidul sacru – apa vie." Anuarul Muzeului Etnograif al Transilvaniei 36 (December 20, 2022): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.47802/amet.2020.36.12.

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Water is the origin of life, a means of purification and the element of regeneration. It is the symbol of fertility, wisdom, divine grace. As the origin and vehicle of any form of life, it represents the vital breath and can become the support of any energy. It can be endowed with antithetical properties, it can be purifying, or poisonous. Water can be structured according to the actions performed on it (prayer, magic formula), or the interference with the surrounding energies (objects, animals, plants). Ritual washings have a special place in all rites of pas‑ sage, or initiation. The water u

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Ivanytskyi, Anatolii. "Sacred Foundations of Folk Song Art." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Musical Art 5, no. 1 (2022): 14–23. https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7581.5.1.2022.258134.

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The purpose of the research is to determine the influence on the spontaneous and creative formation of song symbolism (in particular, musical-typological), which took place through instincts. The research methodology uses scientific methods to emphasise that folklore is an extremely complex and much more difficult system to be systematized than literature and music. Therefore, the criteria of genre classification of written works to folklore can be used in part, aware of their conditionality. In folklore, which is the bearer of the pre-written experience of mankind, in addition

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Andreev, A. V., and A. B. Gasymov. "Old Testament Prophets and Shamans: Comparison of the Phenomena (Anthropological Approach)." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 8, no. 3 (2024): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2024-3-31-20-36.

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The article provides a comparative analysis of the phenomena of Old Testament prophets and shamans against five key aspects: their social status, calling, intermediation, fortune-telling and magic, rituals and cosmogony, and gender. Numerous previous attempts to compare Old Testament prophets, shamans and sorcerers were based on the superficial likeness between these phenomena and often were mere descriptions. The key challenge for such a comparison is the choice of sources: Biblical texts were written in prescientific times, and information about shamans was recorded by ethnographers and anth

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Ančevska, Ieva. "Dziedinošās darbības un to veicēji folkloras un valodas liecībās." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 372–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.372.

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This article summarizes the various healing-related activities used in the Latvian healing tradition. To explain these activities and describe their performers and specialization, folklore sources and linguistic materials were used. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the diversity of folk healing activities and their names, while also clarifying their nature and use as much as possible. The linguistic and etymological analysis was used to investigate the healing activities and the names of their performers, but folklore examples were used for clarifying the meanings. By studying the hea

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Ivanova-Girginova, Marieta. "Magica and Alchemy in Boyan Danovski's Dramatic Visions “Heart of the Jester” and “Heart of Scarlet Porcelain” in the Context of Modernist Experiments in Drama in the 1920s." Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura-Bulgarian Language and Literature 66, no. 4s (2024): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.53656/bel2024-4s-8.

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The text analyzes magical and alchemical rituals of different origins, which became conceptual cores in two of Bojan Danovski‘s dramatic visions: “Heart of the Jester” (the creation of the artificial human Humunculus) and “Heart of Scarlet Porcelain” (the revival of the toys – The porcelain doll and sculpture of Pierrot). Both visions appeared in the magazine “Hyperion” in the second half of the 20s of the last century. They are part of a larger corpus of eight visions the author sent from Italy to the magazine in 1922 – 1928. Нe published six of them in a separate book in 1929. Danovski‘s dra

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Ruslan Ibragimovich, Seferbekov. "Predial Cults Under “Developed Socialism” and Islamic Tradition: on One Farming Ceremony of the Tabasaran." Islamovedenie 11, no. 3 (2020): 72–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21779/2077-8155-2020-11-3-72-80.

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The article provides a description of an age-old predial profane rite of Tabasaran people that was practised down to the 1960s. The rite was performed in an extraordinary situation, since it violated both communist ideology and Muslim tradition. Villagers began the ritual by perform-ing the rite of zikr, and ended it by distributing the sadaka of mercy. The aim of the rite was tak-ing off the so-called “evil eye” from a farm field that did not bear fruit for three years. The rite began by the discovery of the field to be cleared from the evil eye. To this end, a dog was brought to the field an

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Mambwe, Patricia. "Self-delay for Timely Antenatal Care, Rituals and Heavy-Handed in-laws: Cultural Practices Killing Pregnant Women in Zambia- Lundazi district." TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 8, no. 4 (2020): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21522/tijph.2013.08.04.art009.

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This study examined socio-cultural practices surrounding maternal deaths in Lundazi district –Zambia. The practices stealthily affect antenatal care received by antenatal women with subsequent maternal complications and deaths. Four Focus Group Discussions involving 40 members of Small Motherhood Action Groups (SMAGs) were conducted in March 2018.This study found that pregnant women in Lundazi district- Zambia delay to initiate antenatal care until 6th or 7th month of their pregnancy. The reasons given include fear of witchcraft stealing the human embryo for magic. Pregnant women are delayed f

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Prosyannikova, O. I., and K. V. Skorik. "Functioning of Biblical Inclusions in Anglo-Saxon Charms." Prepodavatel XXI vek, no. 1/2 (March 31, 2024): 495–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2073-9613-2024-1-495-508.

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The article deals with the problem of biblical inclusions in Anglo-Saxon charms, and analyzes onomastic vocabulary, prayers and liturgical inclusions in the structure of the charms. The research material includes examples of the use of biblical terms in Anglo-Saxon charms from the Grendon Collection. The author pays attention to the analysis of the researchers’ views on the changes in the structure of the charms due to the inclusion of Christian prayers and liturgical texts. The addressees, represented by biblical characters, whose use of names may be related to the purpose of the charm and it

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Ivanytskyi, Anatolii. "Sacred Foundations of Folk Song Art." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Musical Art 5, no. 1 (2022): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2616-7581.5.1.2022.258134.

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The purpose of the research is to determine the influence on the spontaneous and creative formation of song symbolism (in particular, musical-typological), which took place through instincts. The research methodology uses scientific methods to emphasise that folklore is an extremely complex and much more difficult system to be systematized than literature and music. Therefore, the criteria of genre classification of written works to folklore can be used in part, aware of their conditionality. In folklore, which is the bearer of the pre-written experience of mankind, in addition to mental forma

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Koval, Vladimir I. "Symbol of Mouse in Slavonic and Chinese Linguocultures." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 11, no. 2 (2020): 250–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2020-11-2-250-264.

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The article describes in comparative aspect the main symbolic meanings of the zoononym mouse in Slavic and Chinese linguocultures. The study of animal symbolism in Russian (wider - Slavic) and Chinese cultural traditions is one of the current trends in modern linguistics, which, on the one hand, has a pronounced anthropocentric orientation, and on the other, is characterized by a noticeable increase in interest in the Chinese language and culture of China in different countries of the world. Turning to the study of complex and ambiguous symbolism of the mouse is quite timely and taking into ac

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Sinkevičius, Rokas. "The Motive of Thunderstruck Tree in Connection to Wedding Customs." Tautosakos darbai 56 (December 20, 2018): 84–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/td.2018.28473.

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Latvian folksongs of three types (LD 33802, 34043, 34047) and a Lithuanian song Aušrinė (‘the Morning Star’) published by Liudvikas Rėza (Ludwig Rhesa, RD I 62) depict a tree struck by the Thunderer (Latvian Perkons). The kind of the tree may vary: usually, it is an oak, but sometimes it may be an apple-tree. Researchers of Latvian mythology and folklore call it Saules koks (‘the tree of the Sun’). In different variants, the striking of the tree tends to be part of the plot of the heavenly wedding. Sometimes Perkons allegedly strikes the tree in order to express his objections regarding the Su

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Kárpáti, János. "“Ecco la marcia, andiamo...” Mozart and the March." Studia Musicologica 60, no. 1-4 (2020): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/6.2019.00008.

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Surprisingly little work has been dedicated to Mozart and the march genre. The literature has explored only the 17 marches which feature as introductory movements in his cassations and serenades (Neue Mozart-Ausgabe, Günter Hauswald, Wolfgang Plath). However, marches have important functions in Mozart’s operas – in his seria works as celebratory and greeting intermezzos, and at expressly key instances in his Da Ponte operas (“Non più andrai,” “Ecco la marcia, andiamo,” “È aperto a tutti quanti, viva la libertà!”, and “Bella vita militar”). The same applies to Idomeneo and The Magic Flute, wher

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