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Carabis_1986/116: Love charm scenario: For fate (bringing one's fated spouse)

Collected in: Dolj (Oltenia); at Apele Vii (1970)

Oltenia Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: [None]

Informant: Eugenia Popa; F age NNN, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia

Reference(s): Carabis_1986 116, p.211-212

Timing & Setting: once (implicit), morning; Well (big well and then pond) [V] [None]; Well (pond) [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Water (big well, lake) [V]

 

Religious (priest) [V]

 

Supernatural (Fate) [V]

 

Devil [V]

Plants

Basil [V]

Substances

Holy oil [V]

 

Other (wood (hazel tree, thistle)) [V]

 

Water/Dew (holy water) [V]

Acts/Speech

Pray/Request (beauty for herself, ugliness for all other women, bringing the fateman) [V]

Animal

Domestic negative (bitch (hairy, wormy bitches)) [V]

 

Domestic negative (hen (burnt hens)) [V]

 

Domestic negative (cat (bearded cats)) [V]


[modified on: 07 February 2025 13:29:11 by Amalia Telbis]