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Magic of Words in Momčilo Nastasijević's Narrative An Account of the Gifts of My Cousin Marija

Interpretation of Momčilo Nastasijević's narrative „An Account of the Gifts of my Cousin Marija" indicated the significance of the storyteller's belief in the magic of words and in calamitous effect of words on destiny…

Conjuring Life: Magic in the Poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva

This article discusses the notion of magic in the poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) against the backdrop of romanticism and Russian modernism. Magic is related to the poet's explorations of folklore, and also to R…

Magical Power of Masks in Ivo Vojnović's Drama. Maškarate ispod kuplja as Paradigm of the Illusion of Reality

The present paper analyses Ivo Vojnović's drama Maškarate ispod kuplja by intending to emphasize the importance of carnival masks considered as instruments of liberation of individuals from social conformism. The protag…

In Search of a Perfect Form and Style: Turgenev andConrad's Emphasis on Visual Impression

The human face as a mask that can both hide and emphasise the main traits of human personality and thoughts was used by Turgenev and Conrad. In the society depicted in such novels as Under Western Eyes, Virgin Soil and…

Intermarriages - Crossing Political and Social Borders

This paper analyses Macedonian - Albanian intermarriages in Macedonia in the last fifteen years i.e. their frequency, routes and patterns set in correlation with the social and traditional relationship that existed and…

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The Birch Tree - Ante Babaja's film Gesamtkunstwerk

The Birch Tree (1967), directed by Ante Babaja, is one of the most outstanding achievements of Croatian film modernism. It touches on the problem of rural life, which is unusual for film modernism. The work is inspired…

Personal Names of Mythological Beings in Certain Slavic Curses and Phrases

The topic of the paper is the interpretation of the motivation for the personal names of certain mythological beings in curses and phrases of Slavic peoples. Curses, as well as certain phraseologisms, can preserve the n…

On the Modelative Potentials of the Curse in Oral Epics

This paper offers an analysis of (prevalently feminine) curses which come to being within the text of the epic songs. This specific form of cursing is particularly pointed in the curses by mother's milk. Both in traditi…

Wolf in the Folklore of Croats

The paper focuses on the significant role of wolf in the Croatian folklore that has been confirmed by a series of analyses over the thirty contemporary original field records. The socalled wolf processions were still pe…

The First Polish Systematics of Spells against Illness. On the Forgotten Proposal of Józef Obrębski

The author discusses the first Polish systematics of magic spells against illness, which was proposed by Józef Obrębski in a brochure Index for „Treating the Polish people" by Henryk Biegeleisen in 1931. Obrębski introd…

„Instruments of the Old Faith": Magical Words in Three Medieval South Slavic Healing Rites for Snakebite

The line between Orthodox Christianity and pagan/folk customs and beliefs in the fifteenth century Slavia Orthodoxa was not precisely drawn. The population called upon spiritual forces of all kinds, to heal illnesses an…

An Ancient Bulgarian Ritual and the Magic Power of Words

The ritual „Gramada" is a typical tradition of the Bulgarian ethnic territories that appeared between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It represents a symbolic way of „escorting" (a sort of sym…

The Magic of Word and Silence in the Ritual - Formulas and Functions

Beliefs and perceptions of word are based on existing mythological layer of culture that has specific mechanisms and functions. This mythological context of word determines its acceptance as a magical tool that has a ce…

Bee-keepers' Spell in Ukrainians' World-View Practice: the Magical Power of a Word

The article is exposing some results of the study in bee-keepers' spell as a featuring trait of Ukrainians' world-view practice; the present research is the first work of such a kind in the home ethnology. The spell bel…

Curse in Macedonian Traditional Culture

Curses are spoken formulas that express a desire to happen something bad in the future to someone or something, with the assurance that it will capture. This conviction or belief is based on faith in the magical power o…

Bałkański folklor jako kod interkulturowy, t. I, red. J. Rękas, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Seria Laographica Slavica et Balcanensia, nr 2, Poznań 2011, ss. 595

Spells at the Cradle. The Magic of Words in Folk and Lyrical Lullabies

The article focuses on some examples of magic in traditional folk lullabies and lyrical lullabies for children. The aforementioned types of genre should invoke child's sleep by using special words or melody. On the othe…

Magic Power of the Obscene Language in Womens' Revena

The theme of this paper is the magic power of the obscene words and jokes in traditional Serbian culture, on the example of women's only festival revena in Banat. This ritual represents one day holiday that was celebrat…

The Wedding Code in Incantations

Incantations use the wedding code in order to fulfill the magical function which faces a cure or a protection, demanded by certain people. Thus the wedding code applied to the incantation turns out to be different from…

Verbal Magic in the Oral History from Lubelszczyzna Region - a Positive Aspect

The aim of this article is to give an anthropological description of verbal magic. The magical utterances are present in the following areas of traditional culture: folk medicine, family and annual rituals. They focus o…

Word's and Silence's Magic in Polish Folk Tale

The article's main subject refers to some magical aspects of the literary communication which might be observed in the selected examples of Polish fairy tale, composed in the nineteenth century and at the beginning of t…

Above Pekel med vodami toward Mohokos, Železna gora and Per(n)jak

I conducted my own ethnographic field research in 1998, 2004 and 2007. Further field research, from 2010 to 2012, under the title 'Folk Piety and the Transmission of Ethnoheritage in Upper Meñimurje', was part of Tomo V…

Mythological Characters of the Cultural Space in the Folklore of the Russian North and Norway [Typological Aspects]

Mythological characters of the cultural space in the folklore of the Russian North and Norway (typological aspects)is a comparative analysis of spirits of house that exist in the cultures of both countries. For comparis…

'Lesser Mythology' in the Carpathian Ukrainians' System of Worldview Notions

'Lesser mythology' played an important role in the worldview notions of the Carpathian Ukrainians (Hutsuls, Boykos and Lemkos) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It combines notions about various demonic fig…