Golopentia_1998/030: Love charm and countercharm scenario: For beauty, love and fate; against hate

Collected in: Gorj (Oltenia) by Ștefania Cristescu; at Runcu (1970)

Oltenia Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: descântec de dragoste (love charm)

Informant: Maria Arbagic (Constantin); F age 67, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, W. R.

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 030, p. 104-106

Timing & Setting: [None]; River (source) (Adam's ford; Jordan's river) [V] three times, Tuesday (n the morning, "when the day goes ahead") [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Water (Great Lady Water) [V]

 

Basil [T]

 

Water/Dew (water from a river (in a bottle)) [T]

Substances

Water/Dew (from Adam's ford, from Jordan's river) [V]

 

Gold [V]

 

Milk (breast-milk) [V]

 

Holy (church with priest; house with candle) [T]

 

Esoteric (a piece of lint from the young man's clothes) [T]



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