Collector's Categorization: [None]
Local Designation: descântec de întors (turning charm)
Informant: Ana Dănilă (unknown); F age NNN, Literate
Translator(s): W. R., Sanda Golopentia
Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 054, p. 168‑181; Cristescu_1984 p. 36-39
Timing & Setting: [None] [V] Dance (before going to dance) [T]
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Auxiliaries |
Religious (Xenizo) [V] |
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Water (holy walking water coming from the sun) [V] |
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Mother of the Lord [V] |
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Human (charm-sayer Maria) [V] |
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Adversaries |
Animal (Kirushmana black doe, Pribonitsa running cow) [V] |
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Human (girlfriends, bitches, evil-wishers, god-daughter, female neighbour, mother and daughter, sisters (two), widowed charm-makers) [V] |
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Basil (cluster) [T] |
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Plants |
Cultivated positive (wheat (earlet), flowers) [V] |
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Wild negative (flowers (witheerd), weeds, chopped stumps) [V] |
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Basil [V] |
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Sour cherry tree (sour cherry of sour cherries) [V] |
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Impure (grease left near a dead dog for three days) [T] |
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Pure (bread, salt, wine, water) [T] |
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Water/Dew (unstarted water exposed to the sun) [T] |
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Substances |
Water/Dew (pearl-water, mist) [V] |
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Pure (bread, salt, milk (breastmilk), wine, pepper (Piper nigrum ), salt, honey) [V] |
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Impure (blood, dung, tar from the mill, straw from old basket, clay from ox horns, rust from rettery) [V] |
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Clothes (white smock (hem)) [T] |
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Positive (a silver coin) [T] |
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Weapons (spindles (3)) [T] |
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New object (pot) [T] |
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Esoteric (a piece of red thread, embers (9)) [T] |
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Objects |
Positive (bread-roll, full (brimming) glasses, honeycombs; trumpet of gold, bugle of gold) [V] |
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Negative (wolf's gullet, horse's head, devil's hat, withered flower wreaths) [V] |
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Holy (Gospel, church) [V] |
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Clothes (white skirts, smock of love, apron of love, kerchief of love, shoes of love, coat of love) [V] |
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Weapons (arrow, spear) [V] |
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Domestic negative (dog (dead)) [T] |
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Animal |
Domestic positive (ram (salt), peacock) [V] |
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Domestic negative (bitch (rabid bitches)) [V] |
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Wild negative (doe (black), snake on the spear, wolf (gullet)) [V] |
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Horse (head of dead horse) [V] |
