Golopentia_1998/043: Love charm and countercharm scenario: Against hate for beauty and love

Collected in Moldova (1970)

Moldova Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: de dragoste (for love)

Local Designation: de dragoste (for love)

Informant: Unknown

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

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 043, p. 145–147; Gorovei_1931 p. 319; Lupascu_1890 p. 47

Timing & Setting: [None]; None (home, church, out of the village, Abraham's trail, Jordan's well, back to the village) [V] [None] [T]

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Mother of the Lord (Holy Mary) [V]

 

Religious (Abraham's trail, Jordan's well) [V]

Adversaries

Sorcerers and Sorceresses (charm-sayers, sorceresses) [V]

Substances

Water/Dew [V]

 

Impure (pitch, tar, fuel oil) [V]

 

Gold [V]

 

Love (garments of love) [V]

Objects

Holy (icons, a staff of gold) [V]

 

Clothes (white smock, snake skin dress, garments of love) [V]

Acts/Gesture

Wash (I washed my eyes) [V]

 

Cross oneself and kneel (I crossed myself before the icons) [V]

 

Go to a specific place (I ran to the church) [V]

 

Climb on the fence/Mount a horse (children climbed on the fences) [V]

Acts/Speech

Scream/Whisper (I shouted, I wailed) [V]

 

Ask a question (All asked: Who is that?) [V]

Animal

Snake (dressed me in a snake skin) [V]

 

Cuckoo (the call of the cuckoo in my mouth) [V]

 

Wild positive (listened to me as if to a nightingale) [V]



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