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„Czarownica mleczna” w relacjach mieszkancow Pogorza Ciezkowicko-Roznowskiego i okolic

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Piechnik-Debiec A.
Lud
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2011
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vol. 95
243-259
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The article is about the knowledge of the oldest generation of the rural population about witches and related magical beliefs. The text is based on ethnographic-linguistic fieldwork conducted by the author in 2005-2011 in the Ciezkowicko-Roznowskie Foothills (Malopolska). In the past it was believed that witches could cast spells and, primarily, spoil cow’s milk. The article focuses on the latter aspect of witches’ activity and presents the data on such elements as the appearance and behaviour of the witch, her modus operandi, effects of spells, and methods used to counteract “milk spells” and reverse them. The author also presents the vocabulary used to describe such persons, as well as the attitude of the informants to the beliefs in witches. Contemporary accounts on witches have been compared with the information from other regions of Poland and from historical ethnographic sources about the area under study.
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ÚLOHA RITUÁLU V KONTEXTE REPREZENTÁCIÍ NADPRIRODZENÉHO ŠKODENIA

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Jerotijević D.
Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
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2019
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vol. 26
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issue 1
31 – 53
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The study focuses on a function of magical practices used in an unwitching procedure. The argument is based on Malinowskiś classical anthropological theory and cognitive and psychological studies of religion. The author uses ethnographic data from a long-term field research in Serbia where she investigated representations of witchcraft and sorcery beliefs are usually interpreted as explanations of misfortune. The author assumes that apart from that, they offer certain solutions of people´s problems. If an individual defines their situation in supernatural terms, the solution is also supernatural. In this context, specialists with supernatural abilities play an important role – they state what is going on and suggest solution. Unwitching procedure is highly ritualized activity. The author assumes that this procedure may be a form of emotionally driven coping strategy. At the same time, it may be perceived as effective just because the presence of an agent with supernatural abilities.
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