Golopentia_1998/050: Love countercharm scenario: Against hate (undoing and turning back a hate charm)

Collected in: Gala?i (Moldova) by Al. Vasiliu; at Smulți [Zmulț' (Covurlui')] (1970)

Moldova Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: di disf?cut, di disf?canie (to undo, for undoing)

Informant: Ani?a Patrichi (Tanasî); F age 58, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, Catherine Sama

Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 050, p. 159-164; Vasiliu_1934 p. 32-37

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

Inventory Items

 

Garlic [T]

 

Pear tree (Pyrus piraster (prăsad, wild pear-tree)) [T]

 

Apple tree [T]

 

Excrement (wolf excrement, bear excrement, people excrement) [T]

 

Hairs (cat hairs, pig hairs) [T]

 

Mud/Slime/Dirt (dust from the grave, dirt taken from footsteps, dog diggings) [T]

 

Impure (ashes, soot, garlic left in a dog's ass) [T]

Substances

Mud/Slime/Dirt (grave dirt) [V]

 

Hairs (cat hair) [V]

 

Hairs (swine hair) [V]

 

Other (cat shit) [V]

 

Esoteric (wolf neck) [T]

 

Resounding objects (bugle) [T]

 

Connected with death (live grave) [T]

 

Highly visible objects (lighted tourches) [T]



[modified on: 10 February 2025 08:53:09 by Sanda Golopentia]