« 2018. #6 (144)

The Ethnology Notebooks. 2018, 6 (144), 1413–1429

UDK 930.2:39(477)»18/20»]:398.3/.4(=161.2):392.5

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.06.1413

Received 21.11.2018

ON NUPTIAL MANTIC PRACTICES IN UKRAINIANS’ CALENDAR RITUALISM: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ASPECT

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1039-2920

Serebriakova Olena Heorhiivna, candidate of sciences in history,

junior research fellow

of the department of the modern ethnology

of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,

15 Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine.

Contacts: Tel.: 0963826502; e-mail: o-sereb@ukr.net

Abstract. An ethnographic study of matrimonial divinations in Ukrainians’ calendar ritualism is analyzed. The source of the research is the published ethnographic works of Ukrainian and foreign ethnographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which contain information about the calendar mantic practices in the Ukrainian folk tradition. Also valuable are archival handwritten materials of the late XX — early XXI century, including and their own, collected in 2007—2018 years. Along with the writings of the factual nature of another, a smaller group of researches on the matrimonial divinations of Ukrainians are special analytical studies of their fragments.

Keywords: divinations (mantic practices, ritual practices), marriage, Ukrainians, calendar ritualism.

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