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Golopentia_1998/103: Love charm scenario: For beauty and love; against hate (gathering all the loves; washing all hate)

Collected in: Dolj (Oltenia); at Craiova (1970)

Oltenia Detail Map
charm text

Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: de dragoste (for love)

Informant: Paraschiva Alexandrescu (G.); F age NNN, Illiterate

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

Reference(s): Laugier p. 134-135

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

Inventory Items

Auxiliaries

Religious (Holy Mother Sunday) [V]

 

Supernatural (She's (3 înse)) [V]

Plants

Basil (cluster) [V]

 

peony (peonies) [V]

Substances

Holy (holy oil) [V]

 

Silver [V]

 

Impure (fuel (befueled)) [V]

 

Water/Dew (from the Jordan) [V]

 

Love (loves (the)) [V]

Objects

Precious/Valued (bed of gold, staff of silver, gilded door, chair of wax) [V]

 

Negative (skin (goat; flaking; wolf); droppings (of a black hen)) [V]

 

Esoteric (shoelaces (cat); red silk, skirt with twigs and tiny stars) [V]

 

Resounding objects (bells (tolling of)) [V]

 

Esoteric (egg bursting to pieces in the fire) [V]


[modified on: 07 February 2025 13:29:11 by Sanda Golopentia]