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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 3 (135), 731–736

UDK 398.3/.4(=161.2:477.85):303.436.3

https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.03.731

FROM THE FOLK SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF UKRAINIANS IN HUCULIAN BUKOVYNA: MATERIALS OF THE FIELD ETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS

Konopka Volodymyr Mykhajlovych, Ph.D in History,

junior research fellow at the Department of Historical

Ethnology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National

Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Svobody Avenue, 15, Lviv, 79000,Ukraine.

Contacts: Tel. (032) 2970157; e-mail: ina@mail.lviv.ua

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0872-1833

Abstract. The paper is dedicated to the single parts of spiritual culture (calendar rites, demonological beliefs) of the Ukrainians on the territory of Huculian Bukovyna, especially Hrobyshche and Marynychi villages of Putylski district Chernivtsi region.

Keywords: Huculshchyna, spiritual culture, traditions, beliefs.

Received 23.03.2017

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