The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018, 6 (144), 1394–1412
UDK 398.4:398.33](477.41/.42+476-12)
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.06.1394
Received 21.11.2018
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-8308
Kovalchuk Nadiia, candidate of sciences in history,
Scientific secretary at the State scientific center
of defence of cultural heritage from technogenic catastrophes,
21 Vyshhorods’ka Str., 04074, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Contacts: Tel.: 0508151794, email.: kovalchuk69@ukr.net; kovalchuk.nadia6@gmail.com
Abstract. Whitsunday tradition of mermaids (rusalky`s) release is considered from the point of view of its local forms of expression and distribution areas on the territory of the Polissia of Ukraine and Belarus. According to the set of ritual actions, the appropriate variants of the custom were found and the geography of their distribution in the southeast of Belarus and in the northeastern part of the Right Bank Polissia and the northwestern part of the Left Bank Polissia of Ukraine was clarified.
Keywords: calendar custom, the Trinity cycle, the release of mermaids, the Polissia of Ukraine, the Polissia of Belarus.
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