AFC_015075: Love countercharm scenario: Against hate for beauty (undoing a hate charm)

Collected in Transilvania by Niculina Țura-Mocanu; at Cetățele (1970)

Transilvania Detail Map
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Collector's Categorization: practici magice la Anul Nou (magical practices on New Year)

Local Designation: unknown

Informant: Unknown

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia

Reference(s): AFC 015075

Timing & Setting: [None] [V] Unknown, New Year (before sunrise); River (source) (source with clear water) [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Mother of the Lord [V]

Adversaries

Human (young woman, wife, widow (unknown)) [V]

 

Basil [T]

 

Water/Dew (source water) [T]

Substances

Water/Dew ((implicit)) [V]

 

Hate [V]

 

Positive (silver coin) [T]

 

Wash (wash one's face with source water while holding in one's hands a silver coin and basil) [T]

 

Cross oneself and kneel (facing sunrise) [T]

Acts/Gesture

Wash (facing sunrise) [V]

 

Say/Recite (say the charm) [T]

Acts/Speech

Pray/Request [V]

 

Pray/Request [V]



[modified on: 01 July 2021 11:17:36 by Sanda Golopentia]