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MAGIC ACTIVITIES, PREDICTIONS AND PROGNOSTICS DURING THE EARLY STAGES OF A FOLK WEDDING (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE POLISH ETHNOGRAPHIC ATLAS) (Zachowania magiczne, wrozby i prognostyki podczas wstepnych etapow wesela wiejskiego...)

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Drozdz A.
Lud
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2008
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vol. 92
201-214
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The article deals with magical activities observed in preparations for a folk wedding in Poland. The peak of magical acts was connected with the belief that a young couple was in a critical moment - the interim, which was dangerous for them because of its liminality. On the other hand, if proper patterns of behaviour were followed, it guaranteed happiness of the bride and the groom. According to the common belief, it was possible to predict the future of the couple. That was the source of a great variety of fortune telling and predictions. The article presents selected magical acts accompanying the following stages of the wedding: inviting for a celebration, baking the 'korowaj' cake, the hen evening and predictions before the marriage ceremony. It emphasises many activities of protective and prognostic nature, during invitation for a wedding and baking the wedding cake. The examples presented in the article come from fieldwork conducted by research workers of the Polish Ethnographic Atlas in the second half of the 20th century (mainly in the 1970s and 1980s) in selected villages in the area of Poland.
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Proměny ve stravovacích zvyklostech na území Velkých Żuław ve 20. století

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Drozdz A.
Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
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2009
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vol. 19
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issue 3
185-190
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The essay deals with the issues of a battle against hunger, especially against the fear of starvation, as well as with the fact how the people learned to live in a foreign territory, which role the food played during adaptation to the new life situations and how the eating habits determined the regional identity. The field research was done in the region of Greater Zulawy (Poland) based on a questionnaire devoted to the issues concerning culinary traditions and habits linked to food and dining. The received material showed the importance of food in the course of settling into the foreign surroundings, distinguishing two stages: 1. the importance of food at the not-standard time, i.e. in the first years after the arrival at the new place; 2. the importance of food at the standard time, i.e. in the years of stabilization (approximately since the 1950s until 2008). It has been proven that the culinary traditions and eating habits cannot by analyzed separately, out of the unit (thus out of the other items of the culture). The changes in social structure, or the confrontation with new behaviour models and with other traditions are reflected in eating standards. They become mostly evident as a change and a decline. These processes are particularly obvious when confronting different cultures and in extraordinary situations - e.g. in war.
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