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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018,  № 4 (142), 866–870

UDK 391(477):687.016

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.04.866

Received 15.03.2018

THE NOTEBOOK WITH CHARMS FROM YASYNIA VILLAGE RAKHIV DISTRICT TRANSCARPATHIAN REGION

Korol Vasyl Vasilievich – Senior researcher of the department of funds of the Zakarpattian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life.

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Abstrakt. Presented article takes a view of manuscript collection with charms from Yasynia village, Rakhiv district. The main idea is to show the methods of transmission of sacral knowledge and portrait of «unordinary–knowing» («prymivnyk»). An attempt to classification of charms by the usage objects is made.

Keywords: charms, magic, sorceress, ceremony, beliefs, hutsul, Transcarpatian region

 

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