Archive
«Narodoznavchi Zoshyty» 2015 year, issue 3 read »
«Narodoznavchi Zoshyty» 2014 year, issue 4 read »
«Narodoznavchi Zoshyty» 2014 year, issue 1 read »
The Ethnology Notebooks. 2022. #2 (164). P. 265-522 According to the materials of the... read »

« 2018. #4 (142)

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.

street Kapitul’na, Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia area, 88000

Contacts: tel.: 03122 37392

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

 

Our authors
Boliuk Oleh - kandidate of sciences in arts, Doctoral... read »
Stepan Pavluk. Prof., full member of NAS of Ukraine,... read »
Yaroslav Taras. Head of Department, Professor, Doctor... read »
Oksana Sapeliak. Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D. in... read »
Daily bread baking of ukrainians in the south-western ethnographical region at the late XIX to early XXI cc.
The paper has dealt with analytic study in prescriptions, signs, customs, methods, ways of selection, procurement and some peculiarities in usage of subsidiary means — water, firewood and leaves in bread baking. The final aim of the mentioned actions had been (and still is) selection of the means and ingredients fit, by their characteristics, for the backing of bread. The paper has demonstrated dependence of bread backing subsi­diary means criteria from the folk nutritional standards and world outlook stereotypes as well as from regional social and economic, natural and geographical factors and peculiarities of material culture.
Read »

Wax candle as ukrainian Christmas and epiphany ritualistic text
For the first time in native ethnology the article has brought some results of special study in sign functionality of a wax candle under the context of Ukrainian Christmas and Epiphany ritualistic text (ritualism of Christmas Eve, New Year, Epiphany Eve and Feast of Epiphany). The study has stated extremely high semiotic position of a wax candle as projection of Sun, mediator between the spheres of sacral and prophane elements, symbolic analogue of human existence, apotropy, cultural symbol re-establishing borders of acculturated space.
Read »

Boikos’ pandemonium: categories of evil deceased
In the article have been presented some research-work on peculiarities of Boikos’ traditional demonological notions as for so-called evil deceased; on the basis of field records and ethnological literary sources quite a number of scum categories have been defined as well as essential habits, modes of behavior and functions of these personages of people’s demonology.
Read »

Maternity ritualism by volhynians in publications of the second half XIX to the early XXI cc.
In the article have been considered some basic landmarks for fixing and publication of ethnographic materials on the maternity rites of Volhynia with analytical study in ritual elements, their kinds and territories of origin. The article has also raised a problem of gaps in studies of maternity rites of Ukrainian historio-ethnographic Volhynia.
Read »