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Golopentia_1998/027: Love charm and countercharm scenario: Against hate for beauty (undoing hate and being successful at the dance)

Collected in: Suceava (Bucovina) by George Bârtoiu; at Stroie?ti/Bucovina [(Boto?ani* Suceava* Hotin'/Bu)] (1970)

Bucovina Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: pe dragoste/ on love, pe ursit?/ on fate

Informant: Unknown

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, Catherine Sama

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 027, p. 96-100; Marian_1898 p. 184-186

Timing & Setting: once (implicit), morning; Church (church; gate of heaven; Jordan river; dancing place) [V] once (implicit), Epiphany (Epiphany eve, in the evening; next morning and afternoon); Well (well; dancing place) [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Mother of the Lord [V]

 

Sun (rising sun, dear brother) [V]

Adversaries

Human (men, women) [V]

 

Basil (basil (several stems)) [T]

Plants

Basil (flowering) [V]

 

Water/Dew (unstarted water from the well) [T]

Substances

Water/Dew (unscattered drizzle, water from Jordan's river) [V]

 

Esoteric (love) [V]

 

Pure (strained silver) [V]

Objects

Clothes (smock of love, belt of love, crown of gold) [V]

 

Holy (icons, ladder of wax) [V]

 

Positive (glasses full) [V]

Animal

Wild positive (birds in their nests) [V]


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