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Collector's Categorization: descântec de desfăcut (charm for undoing)

Local Designation: de desf?cut (to undo)

Informant: Maria Ci?vrana (unknown); F age 60, Illiterate

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

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 049, p. 156-158

Timing & Setting: once (implicit), Sunday morning; Road (by the way, by the trail) [V] [None] [T]

Commentary: The technique part of the charmn contains in fact the informant's refusal to disclose the procedure.

Inventory Items
Adversaries	Human (sisterâ€‘inâ€‘law, sister, enmaidened maiden, enwidowed widow, woman with husband) [V]
Plants	Love/dragoste (Sedum fabaria (or Botrychium lunaria, Sedum maximum) (dragoste, ?)) [V]
Substances	Hairs (goat hairs) [V]
	Love [V]
Objects	Esoteric (two morning starrikins on her shoulders) [V]
Acts/Gesture	Go to a specific place (set out by the way, by the trail) [V]
	Gather plants, objects, substances (gathered the love) [V]
	Wash (washed and cleansed) [V]
	Acts for casting hate upon a rival (throwings and workings) [V]
Acts/Speech	Undoing/Voiding a negative charm (charm away) [V]
	Invoke/Address/Call (Come sooner, my lot!) [V]
Animal	Domestic negative (goat) [V]

Golopentia_1998/049: Love charm and countercharm scenario: For beauty and love; against hate (undoing hate)