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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 5 (137), 1244—1250

UDK 398.4(477.87)(0.032)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.05.1244

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF FOLK CHARMS FROM VILLAGE LUG RAKHIV DISTRICT TRANSCARPATHIAN REGION

Korol Vasyl Vasiliovych, senior research fellow

at the department of funds

at the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Everyday Life,

Kapitulna Str., 33a, Uzhgorod, 88000, Ukraine

Contacts: Tel. (03122) 36352.

Abstract. In article was considered manuscript collection of folk charms from Village Lug, Rakhiv District, Transcarpathian Region. There has been tried of classification of charms by the objects of usage. The author pay attention on the methods of transfer of sacred knowledge and portrait of «unordinary — knowing» («baiilnyk»).

Keywords: charms, world view, magic, rites.

Received 18.07.2017

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Rukopysnyj zbirnyk iz zamovlianniamy. Zberihaiet’sia v s. Luh Rakhivs’koho rajonu v Dutchuk Oleny Mykhajlivny 1940 r. n [in Ukrainian].
Korol’, V.V. (2017). Usna ta pysemna tradytsii apokryfichnykh molytov sered ukraintsiv Zakarpattia. Etnika Karpat: naukovyj schorichnyk, 1, 16—23 [in Ukrainian].
Petrov, A.L. (1893). Uhro­russkije zagovory i zaklinanija nachala XVIII veka. ZhMNP, 10, 516—549 [in Russian].

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