Collector's Categorization: vrajă (spell)
Local Designation: vrajă/ spell
Informant: Unknown
Translator(s): Catherine Sama, Sanda Golopentia
Reference(s): Golopentia_1998 086, p. 242-244; Marian_1898 p. 141-142
Timing & Setting: [None]; Other (forest, villges, rivers with no fords) [V] Other (unknown); Other (home (d), well, oven, threshold) [T]
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Animal (cat or dog) [T] |
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Auxiliaries |
Devil [V] |
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Supernatural (God) [V] |
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Other (corn flour) [T] |
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Water/Dew (water (carried with the mouth)) [T] |
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Substances |
Esoteric (water = lake) [V] |
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Esoteric (mirrors, turtiţă/ small cake, shovel) [T] |
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Other (look into mirrors, go to the well, river etc.) [T] |
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Fetch water (from the well, ice-hole etc., bring it in one's mouth) [T] |
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Bake (grind corn, bake a small cake at the door of the oven) [T] |
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Preparatory (put cake in the middle of the house or on the threshold) [T] |
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Acts/Gesture |
Other (shake the lake, torture and steer the fateman) [V] |
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Other (call cat/ dog to eat the cake) [T] |
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Say/Recite (recite) [T] |
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Acts/Speech |
Enumerate exhaustively (list first... ninth village) [V] |
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Command/Order (command the Devil) [V] |
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Domestic positive (dog or cat) [T] |
