Magiczna moc słowa w rosyjskiej medycynie ludowej: leczenie chorób oczu

• Authors: Joanna Rybarczyk-Dyjewska

Title variants

EN

The Magical Power of the Word in Russian Folk Medicine: the Treatment of Eye Diseases

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present article is to describe the folk etiology of eye diseases as well as a presentation of the verbal methods found in Russian folk culture for its cure. The research material encompasses collections of Russian folk spells together with ethnographical works on Slavonic folk medicine. The researched material showed that within the magical formulas utilised in the case of eye diseases (inflammation, sties etc.) various verbal strategies were employed; for example ones causing the driving away or destruction of the disease, requests to intermediaries as well as other approaches.

Keywords

EN

spell; medicine; eyes; Russian folk culture; ethnolinguistic

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2014
• Volume: V/2
• Pages: 199-208

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Joanna Rybarczyk-Dyjewska

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128