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Rośliny w zwyczajach i obrzędach mieszkańców województwa śląskiego. Tradycja i współczesność

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Skonieczna-Gawlik D.

Rocznik Muzeum "Górnośląski Park Etnograficzny w Chorzowie"

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2015

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vol. 3

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issue 3

103-123

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Do dnia dzisiejszego w wielu obrzędach i zwyczajach dorocznych, jak i rodzinnych, obecne są rośliny. Obok aspektu leczniczego roślinom tym przypisywano również właściwości magiczne, wykorzystywano je do odpędzania chorób lub zabezpieczania zwierząt, ludzi oraz domostw przed złymi mocami. Zioła skropione wodą święconą przez kapłana nabierały szczególnej mocy, uzyskiwały większą siłę sprawczą i pełniły ważną funkcję w późniejszych zabiegach magicznych. Do chwili obecnej okazji do święcenia roślin w kościele jest kilka: Niedziela Wielkanocna, uroczystości Bożego Ciała czy dzień Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny. Wierni nadal przynoszą do świątyni bukiety lub wianki, lecz ich wierzeniowo-magiczna rola coraz bardziej odchodzi w niepamięć. Obecnie mało kto wystawia palmę wielkanocną do okna w trakcie burzy, nie okadza krów dymem z ziela poświęconego 15 sierpnia i nie przygotowuje z tych roślin naparów. Gdzieniegdzie jeszcze połyka się poświęcone bazie czy zjada poświęcone jabłko, aby uchronić się od chorób gardła lub też zatyka się krzyżyki z gałązek poświęconych w Niedzielę Palmową w pole, aby ochronić je przed gradobiciem. Ale i te dawne zwyczaje powoli odchodzą w niepamięć. Artykuł ten jest próbą zebrania informacji o zwyczajach i obrzędach, w których dawniej i częściowo jeszcze obecnie stosowano rośliny nie tylko z uwagi na ich aspekt leczniczy, ale przede wszystkim magiczno-wierzeniowy.

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To this day plants are present in many annual and family rituals and customs. Except for the belief in their medical powers, plants were also often attributed with magical properties. Hence they were used to ward off disease or protect animals, people and homes from evil spirits. Herbs sprinkled with holy water by a priest acquired a special power. Thus they were granted with even greater causative power and played an important role in the later magical treatments. To this date, there are still several religious occasions during which people may consecrate plants, that are: Easter Sunday, the Feast of Corpus Christi or the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Although the faithful continue to bring to bouquets or garlands to temples, their religious and magical role gradually sinks into oblivion. Today, hardly anyone sets an Easter palm in a window during a storm, moxibusts cows with smoke from herbs consecrated on August 15 as noone prepares infusions from these herbs. However, in some places people still practice swallowing consecrated willow catkins, eating consecrated apples in order to protect themselves from diseases of the throat or they set crosses made of twigs consecrated on the Palm Sunday in fields to protect them from hail. But those old customs are slowly fading away. This article is an attempt to gather information about the past and currently cultivated customs and rites concerning the use of plants not only due to their therapeutic properties, but especially due to their religious and magical powers.

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PROCES WRÓŻBITY BAZYLEGO MAKSYMOWICZA (1741)

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Cichy-Kowalska M.

Rocznik Przemyski

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2017

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vol. 53

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issue 1(20): Historia

35-47

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An unusual witch trial took place in Przemyśl in 1741. One Bazyli Maksymowicz – a village diviner, herbalist and healer – was accused of consorting with witches and deceiving people for his own profit. The local people would ask him, for example, to send evil spirits, find stolen belongings or illnesses. The one who helped him out in that was Maryna Kuliczka, a witch from a village called Załuże. Original, so-far unpublished court records of that trial have been kept in the National Archive in Przemyśl.

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Średniowieczne dziedzictwo sztuki ogrodowej klasztorów europejskich

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Milecka M.

Hereditas Monasteriorium

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2012

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vol. 1

31-56

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The tradition of the hermit orders emerged within the first two hundred years of Christianity, but it was st. Benedict who initiated the idea of the convent life based on the self-sufficiency and common living, improved during the 6th century. St. Benedict referred in a particular way to the words of Christ: „I was a stranger and you invited me in [...], I was sick and you looked after me” (Matthew 25:35–36). By putting the emphasis on warm hospitality for all of the travelers from different states and respect for the ill people, his philosophy shaped few types of monastic gardens. Among the other gardens there were: herbal (medical), kailyard and the orchard/graveyard. The input of the convents in the development of the horticulture is huge if consider the progress and dissemination of plant production, but also land cultivation, its fertilization, restoration and irrigation. The orders were leaders in techniques of management and usage of waters, forests, keeping the vineyards, orchards, and utilitarian and recreational gardens. The widespread of botanical and medical knowledge by collecting, copying and illustrating manuscripts is also owed to the convents. Many abbots had solid knowledge of gardening, but also of medicine according to st. Benedict. In particular, the Benedictines and Cistersians influenced the development of farming and gardening by expanding the boundaries of inhabited areas. A lot of convents were taking care of ill people, giving the beginning of hospital institutions. The monks’ records contain many useful information concerning the botanical knowledge and medical use of plants. This knowledge, however, has no Christian roots as it was transferred to the European grounds along with the inflow of the ancient Latin treaties to the Christian culture. What have left as a legacy of antiquity, and what was an important starting point for further development of the horticulure as a science, are four complete works on agriculture and one encyclopedic work containing botanical books on agriculture, gardening, and materia medica. A significant progress of the horticulture as an applied science have brought the times of Charles The Great, and several prominent brothers. It is worth to mention here the names of: Alcuin – the abbot of st. Martin monastery, the famous Benedict of Aniane – the abbot of Languedoc (considered as the author of the Capitulare de villis plant list), Gozbert of St. Gall, abbot Haito of Reichenau, but also the only women among the above mentioned – Hildegard of Bingen. Through their letters, plans, and even poems (Hortulus – the poem of Walafrid Strabo), it is now known a lot more about medieval monastic gardens, their composition, spatial structure, the species of cultivated plants, and their importance for contemporary people. The useful plants were highly valued at that time, not only as the healthy groceries, but also for their importance for medieval spirituality as the spiritual and symbolic value, sometimes even magical. It was believed that each plant was created with a purpose, having added specific values, to serve man. Many plants intented for human consumption were also considered to be sanative. In particular, it concerned fruits and vegetables considered as higly therapeutic, so they were used in specially composed diets, i.a. in presented in detail in the article diet, based on the so-called theory of liquids. The author of this article, sharing the information about the importance of garden and the developing practical science of horticulture in medieval orders, is trying to give answer, which plants were grown in the medieval monastic gardens, which forms of cultivation and gardening practices were used, and reflects her thoughts on the problem of protecting the legacy of monastic garden art in the contemporary world.

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