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

Collected in Transilvania; at Telciu (1970)

Transilvania Detail Map
charm text

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

Local Designation: De întors

Informant: Saveta Arman; F age 54, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia

Reference(s): Bichigean_Tomuta_1938 c, p. 82-83

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

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Supernatural (You trough, with the body of a she-dragon and the head of a she-devil) [V]

 

Mother of the Lord [V]

 

Cultivated positive (pepper (9 grains)) [T]

 

Basil (basil stems (9)) [T]

 

Esoteric (trough) [T]

 

Esoteric (live embers (3)) [T]

Animal

Domestic negative (bitch) [V]

 

Domestic ambivalent (dog (9 little dogs born on Saturday before Easter)) [V]


[modified on: 07 February 2025 13:29:11 by Sanda Golopentia]