Golopentia_1998/039: Charm scenario: Against hate (undoing a hate charm)

Collected in Moldova by Al. Vasiliu; at Muncelu [MunÅŸelu' (Roman')] (1970)

Moldova Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: di disfăcut, di disfăcanie (to undo, for undoing)

Informant: Maria Mălinişi (unknown); F age 95, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, Catherine Sama

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 039, p. 125–129; Vasiliu_1934 p. 39–42

Timing & Setting: [None] [V] [None] [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Mother of the Lord [V]

Adversaries

Devil (Satan, Devil, Scaraotski, impure ghost) [V]

 

Devil [V]

 

Wine (wine) [T]

 

Water/Dew [T]

 

Honey/Sugar (honey) [T]

 

Pure (oil) [T]

Substances

Gold (gold) [V]

 

Silver [V]

 

Wine (brandy) [V]

 

Holy oil (oil) [V]

 

Esoteric (whisk used by the priest to prepare holy water) [T]

Objects

Clothes (sheepskin coat and cap inside out, ripped pants; white clothes) [V]

 

Weapons (whip, arrow, broom, knife) [V]

 

Other (pipe between teeth) [V]

 

Holy (icons, ladder of gold, staff of silver) [V]



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