Among the numerous objects that are used in love charms we here concentrate on: (a) holy, precious, positive, ambivalent and negative objects, among which new, discarded and found objects play a special role; (b) esoteric objects that characteristically define certain types of charms (highly visible and resounding objects or the fence signal charms for beauty; door/windows, hearth, signature objects, skewers and belt occur in fate charms; embers, hobbles, clothes, weapons appear in countercharms etc.); (c) objects that, being connected with weddings and fire or with death are to be used in charms for fate or hate respectively and (d) general categories of objects that tend to be used in a great number of charm scenarios, such as containers, objects used to stir, or furniture.
fence: | 1 (verse) |
tongues and hearts (of 1st-born babies); hearts and heads (of 1st-born calves); heads, tongues and hearts (of 1st-born lambs): | 1 (verse) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
belt turned into dragon: | 2 (verse) |
frog shirt, crown of thorns: | 1 (verse) |
quiet well's clothes: | 1 (verse) |
sheepskin coat and cap inside out, ripped pants; white clothes: | 1 (verse) |
smock of hate: | 1 (verse) |
smock of hate, belt of nettle, frog-skin soles; smock of love, belt of passion, butterfly boots: | 1 (verse) |
smock of love, belt of love, crown of gold: | 1 (verse) |
socks, belt, drawers, shirt, cap: | 1 (verse) |
white skirts, smock of love, apron of love, kerchief of love, shoes of love, coat of love: | 1 (verse) |
white smock, snake skin dress, garments of love: | 1 (verse) |
white smock; bear cap, smock of hate, kerchief of hate, devil skin dress and shoes (of hate); kerchief of love, dress of gold and pearls, shoes of pearls: | 1 (verse) |
9 cauldrons, 9 ovens: | 1 (verse) |
cauldrons (9; burning and boiling): | 1 (verse) |
ember (burning and alive): | 1 (verse) |
fire tail: | 1 (verse) |
irons for stoking the fire: | 1 (verse) |
little plate on a big flame: | 1 (verse) |
poker to stir a fire, Gypsy-made: | 1 (verse) |
wedded knife: | 1 (verse) |
a fir pail: | 1 (verse) |
new pot: | 1 (verse) |
spruce bucket: | 1 (verse) |
broken brooms: | 1 (verse) |
water from the surface of the tub? (fața vandelei): | 1 (verse) |
black rooster who has never sung; black Gypsy child who wasn't baptized: | 1 (verse) |
egg bursting to pieces in the fire: | 1 (verse) |
horses' hobbles, boiling walnuts: | 1 (verse) |
kerchief turned into a rooster, hearth: | 1 (verse) |
ladder, bridge: | 1 (verse) |
one glass (for the couple to drink), one loaf (for the couple to eat): | 1 (verse) |
pots: | 1 (verse) |
red silk thread: | 1 (verse) |
shoelaces (cat); red silk, skirt with twigs and tiny stars: | 1 (verse) |
spinning wheel: | 1 (verse) |
thread of hemp with 9 knots: | 1 (verse) |
two morning starrikins on her shoulders: | 1 (verse) |
windows, door, banner: | 1 (verse) |
banner, fir (adorned ceremonial): | 1 (verse) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
hobble: | 1 (verse) |
church, well of Adam: | 1 (verse) |
Gospel, church: | 1 (verse) |
holy icon: | 1 (verse) |
icons, a staff of gold: | 1 (verse) |
icons, candles: | 1 (verse) |
icons, candles in the candelabrum, steps of gold, chair of silver: | 1 (verse) |
icons, church, ladder of gold: | 1 (verse) |
icons, ladder of gold, staff of silver: | 1 (verse) |
icons, ladder of wax: | 1 (verse) |
ladder of silver, buccin of gold: | 1 (verse) |
staff golden, trough golden: | 1 (verse) |
black basket, black bucket: | 1 (verse) |
hobble, teeth of dead horse, scarecrows, crown of thorns, snake (wolf) skin, sole of an eagle-owl: | 1 (verse) |
horns (goat), feathers (evil), bucket (bottom of), hairs (wolf), hooves (doe): | 1 (verse) |
horns (he-goat), feathers (evil; duck f.), skins (dog s.), bucket (bottom of b.): | 1 (verse) |
skin (goat; flaking; wolf); droppings (of a black hen): | 1 (verse) |
thorn-pit: | 1 (verse) |
wolf's gullet, horse's head, devil's hat, withered flower wreaths: | 1 (verse) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (verse) |
bed, bedclothes: | 1 (verse) |
bed, hearth: | 1 (verse) |
crown of stars: | 1 (verse) |
peacock feather: | 1 (verse) |
pipe between teeth: | 1 (verse) |
red silk thread: | 1 (verse) |
windows: | 1 (verse) |
bed of gold, staff of gold, ladder of silver: | 1 (verse) |
bread-roll, full (brimming) glasses, honeycombs; trumpet of gold, bugle of gold: | 1 (verse) |
glasses full: | 1 (verse) |
ladder (of silver), trough (of gold): | 1 (verse) |
ladder (of silver), trough (of gold), hooves (of a doe): | 1 (verse) |
silver staff, bridge, chair, coin; gold ladder; crimson thread, , peacock feather: | 1 (verse) |
spoon, bed: | 1 (verse) |
table, glass, green rug: | 1 (verse) |
bed of gold, staff of silver, gilded door, chair of wax: | 1 (verse) |
crown of stars: | 1 (verse) |
gifts (the 3), taffeta (purple, green): | 1 (verse) |
silver coin: | 1 (verse) |
bell (zișinul clopotului): | 1 (verse) |
bells (tolling of): | 1 (verse) |
bells ringing: | 1 (verse) |
chairs (rattling), doors (creaking): | 1 (verse) |
pipe, totâlca: | 1 (verse) |
toaca: | 1 (verse) |
trompet, pipe: | 1 (verse) |
a coin (bănuț din sân): | 1 (verse) |
feather(of eagle, peacock): | 1 (verse) |
peacock feather: | 2 (verse) |
99 pricking needles, 99 spearing spears: | 1 (verse) |
arrow, spear: | 1 (verse) |
chains: | 1 (verse) |
fences without stiles, roads without trails: | 1 (verse) |
gun: | 1 (verse) |
irons quenched in water and wine: | 1 (verse) |
knife: | 2 (verse) |
knives (9 sharp k.): | 1 (verse) |
needle: | 1 (verse) |
pestle: | 1 (verse) |
scythe (sharp-cutting a. venomous): | 1 (verse) |
skewer (glowing red): | 1 (verse) |
spindles (9 new): | 1 (verse) |
whip: | 1 (verse) |
whip (Saint George's): | 1 (verse) |
whip, arrow, broom, knife: | 1 (verse) |
icons: | 1 (tech) |
candle (1, lit): | 1 (tech) |
candle (Easter; lit), church, egg (red-dyed, Easter): | 1 (tech) |
church with priest; house with candle: | 1 (tech) |
icons: | 2 (tech) |
ladder (wax): | 1 (tech) |
ledge of gold: | 1 (tech) |
coin: | 1 (tech) |
coin (gold or silver), money: | 1 (tech) |
silver coin: | 2 (tech) |
silver coin (1), piece of sugar (1), bowl (of water): | 1 (tech) |
silver well casing: | 1 (tech) |
pot: | 1 (tech) |
a silver coin: | 1 (tech) |
doe hooves: | 1 (tech) |
silver coin: | 1 (tech) |
broken baskets (coşniţe): | 1 (tech) |
striped sack: | 1 (tech) |
a hair from each of the two: | 1 (tech) |
a piece of lint from the young man's clothes: | 1 (tech) |
a piece of red thread, embers (9): | 1 (tech) |
bridge of thorns, red thread: | 1 (tech) |
bridges: | 1 (tech) |
cuckoo's head: | 1 (tech) |
dishes (9), comb, rings, mirrors, silver coins, beads: | 1 (tech) |
door, spool (in the mouth while reciting the charm), basket (to stand on), fence poles: | 1 (tech) |
embers: | 1 (tech) |
embers (9): | 1 (tech) |
fence post chosen by counting: | 1 (tech) |
flat bread baked on the bottom of the pot: | 1 (tech) |
gîtej cu pîrlej: | 1 (tech) |
gura cămăşii: | 1 (tech) |
irons (3): | 1 (tech) |
irons (9; skewer, spinning wheel etc): | 1 (tech) |
kreutzer for charming (criţar descîntător): | 1 (tech) |
live embers (3): | 1 (tech) |
mirrors, turtiţă/ small cake, shovel: | 1 (tech) |
new big pot, pills with holy things: | 1 (tech) |
new brick, wedded knife: | 1 (tech) |
sun thread: | 1 (tech) |
taffeta: | 1 (tech) |
the mouth of the shirt: | 1 (tech) |
thread of hemp with 9 knots; the threshold of the door; padlocks (9): | 1 (tech) |
thread of red silk: | 1 (tech) |
threshold of the door: | 1 (tech) |
trough: | 1 (tech) |
whisk used by the priest to prepare holy water: | 1 (tech) |
wolf neck: | 1 (tech) |
lighted torches: | 1 (tech) |
lighted tourches: | 1 (tech) |
buggle, caval, trumpet: | 1 (tech) |
bugle: | 1 (tech) |
church bells: | 1 (tech) |
piva (treasc): | 1 (tech) |
toaca: | 1 (tech) |
trumpet: | 1 (tech) |
trumpet of gold: | 1 (tech) |
comb: | 1 (tech) |
combs-F: | 1 (tech) |
ribbon in girl's hair (golond): | 1 (tech) |
rings, ear-rings, comb, hairpins, stockings: | 1 (tech) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (tech) |
[no qualifier]: | 3 (tech) |
3 skewers: | 1 (tech) |
9 skewers: | 1 (tech) |
blue clothes: | 1 (tech) |
boot, white smock: | 1 (tech) |
cap, shirt: | 1 (tech) |
grand water clothes: | 1 (tech) |
shirt: | 1 (tech) |
shirt of the charmee: | 1 (tech) |
smock or dress (new): | 1 (tech) |
thorn slippers, nettle clothes; peacock clothes, nightingale slippers: | 1 (tech) |
white clothes: | 1 (tech) |
white smock (hem): | 1 (tech) |
[no qualifier]: | 3 (tech) |
belt laid by charmer\'s head in the form of a cross: | 1 (tech) |
belt put under the charmer-charmee's head: | 1 (tech) |
belt with 9 knots: | 1 (tech) |
made of the thread with which one ties the legs of the dead: | 1 (tech) |
9 spindles, needle: | 1 (tech) |
a sewing needle: | 1 (tech) |
axe: | 1 (tech) |
iron beak, steel wings: | 1 (tech) |
irons (3, found), skewers (3): | 1 (tech) |
irons (3: skewer, spinning wheel, horseshoe): | 1 (tech) |
irons (9) of 9 sorts: | 1 (tech) |
irons (9), skewer: | 1 (tech) |
needle: | 1 (tech) |
needle turned into arrow: | 1 (tech) |
pranic: | 1 (tech) |
rein: | 1 (tech) |
rein, whip of fire (burning switch?): | 1 (tech) |
scythe (top of, heated in fire = iron): | 1 (tech) |
sickle (a), spindles (9), knife (a), scissors: | 1 (tech) |
skewer (hot): | 1 (tech) |
spindles: | 1 (tech) |
spindles (3): | 1 (tech) |
whip of fire: | 1 (tech) |
dead dog: | 1 (tech) |
live grave: | 1 (tech) |
năframă din buhaș: | 1 (tech) |
rotten stump: | 1 (tech) |
fire tongs: | 1 (tech) |
hearth: | 1 (tech) |
wedded knife: | 1 (tech) |
wedding wreaths bound: | 1 (tech) |
bottle: | 2 (tech) |
cup (năstrăpioară): | 1 (tech) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (tech) |
peacock feather, eagle feather: | 1 (tech) |
peacock feathers: | 1 (tech) |
doe hooves: | 1 (tech) |
fence: | 2 (tech) |
fence poles (gard de nuiele): | 1 (tech) |
fence post: | 1 (tech) |
goat hairs: | 1 (tech) |
pole in a fire: | 1 (tech) |
scales of gold: | 1 (tech) |
silver well casing: | 1 (tech) |
tallest tree in the woods: | 1 (tech) |
the pole of the hall-stand: | 1 (tech) |
turtă descîntată: | 1 (tech) |
wallnut: | 1 (tech) |
window: | 1 (tech) |
wolf hairs: | 1 (tech) |
[no qualifier]: | 1 (tech) |