Golopentia_1998/042: Love countercharm scenario: Against hate for beauty and love (undoing a hate charm)

Collected by Al. Vasiliu; at Cut (Neamţ) (1970)

Entire Regional Map of Romania
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

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

Informant: Măriuca Daradoi (unknown); F age 69, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, Catherine Sama

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 042, p. 140–144; Vasiliu_1934 p. 46–49

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

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Mother of the Lord [V]

Adversaries

Human (enemies, sorceresses, evil-doers) [V]

 

Basil (a cluster) [T]

Plants

Cultivated positive (flowers) [V]

 

Basil (a cluster) [V]

 

Pure (silver) [T]

 

Water/Dew [T]

 

Pure (sugar) [T]

 

Pure (wine (a little)) [T]

Substances

Water/Dew (from the river; from Jordan's well on Adam's trail) [V]

 

Ambivalent (blood) [V]

 

Holy (candle (1, lit)) [T]

 

Precious/Valued (silver coin (1), piece of sugar (1), bowl (of water)) [T]

 

Used to stir [T]

Objects

Holy (icons, candles in the candelabrum, steps of gold, chair of silver) [V]

 

Containers (a fir pail) [V]

 

Clothes (white smock; bear cap, smock of hate, kerchief of hate, devil skin dress and shoes (of hate); kerchief of love, dress of gold and pearls, shoes of pearls) [V]

 

Hobble (hobble) [V]

 

Weapons (whip) [V]



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