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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 1 (133), 171–182

UDK 39:636.09(477.86)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.01.171

Received 27.01.2017

FOLK VETERINARY SCIENCE AT POKUTTIA

Fainyk Tetiana, candidate of sciences in history,

Ph.D, research fellow in the department of the modern ethnology,

of the Institute of Ethnology

of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: faynyk@nas.gov.ua

Abstract. Local peculiarities of diseases prevention and treatment in domestic cattle breeding are given in research; some remedies, herbal medicines especially, are described; methods for some diseases treatment are under consideration; main criterions of the correct care for cattle and poultry; some data`s about those, who were engaged in animals treatment are represented.

Keywords: Pokuttia, veterinary science, cattle, horse, poultry, folk customs, heeling magic.

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