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AFC_020425/1: Narrative on charming for fate

Collected in: Satu Mare (Transilvania) by Viorel Rogoz; at Giurtelec (1970)

Transilvania Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: practici magice (magical practices)

Local Designation: unknown

Informant: Ani?ca Drule (unknown); F age 74, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia

Reference(s): AFC 020425/1

Timing & Setting: [None] [V] once, Several days (nine days of fasting); Church (the charm-sayer throws an axe over the church) [T]

Inventory Items

 

Wild ambivalent (frog with two young ones) [T]



[modified on: 10 February 2025 08:53:09 by Sanda Golopentia]