Bichigean_Tomuta_1938/b: Love countercharm scenario: Against fate (saving one's marriage)

Collected in: Bistrița-Năsăud (Transilvania); at Romuli (1970)

Transilvania Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: descântec de întors (charm for turning)

Local Designation: de întors

Informant: Palagia Cârstea (Baba); F age 80, Illiterate

Translator(s):

Reference(s): Bichigean_Tomuta_1938 b

Timing & Setting: [None]; Home (home and road) [V] [None]; Home (implicit) [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Devil (he-demon with she-demon; he-devil with she-devil) [V]

 

Animal (lion with lioness) [V]

Adversaries

Human (envious women, evil-doers, old paid widows (widowers)) [V]

 

Devil [V]

 

Cultivated positive (pepper (9); corn (9)) [T]

 

Water/Dew [T]

Substances

Ambivalent (blood) [V]

 

Weapons (9 spindles, needle) [T]

 

Clothes (shirt of the charmee) [T]

Objects

Weapons (needle) [V]

Acts/Speech

Count (counting from 1 to 10) [V]



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