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Golopentia_1998/003: Love charm scenario: For beauty and love; to blacken all the other girls (for being successful at the village dance)

Collected in: Suceava in the North by Dimitrie Furtună; at Poeni (Siret')[(Suceava)* /Bucovina] (1970)

Entire Regional Map of Romania
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: [None]

Informant: Unknown

Translator(s): Catherine Sama, Sanda Golopentia

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 003, p.63-64; Marian_1901 p. 278–279

Timing & Setting: [None] [V] once (implicit), St George's day (04/23) (1. sunrise; 2.morning of St. George's day (23 April)); Well (well; home; hearth; threshold) [T]

Inventory Items

 

Water/Dew (water carried in the mouth) [T]

 

Other (corn flour ground backwards) [T]

 

Other (turtă) [T]

 

Other (turtă descîntată) [T]


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