Kletvata vo makedonskata tradicionalna kultura
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Date
2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Curse in Macedonian Traditional Culture
Abstract
Curses are spoken formulas that express a desire to happen something bad in the future to
someone or something, with the assurance that it will capture. This conviction or belief is
based on faith in the magical power of the word. In the folk life curses are being made when
the most important values in the community are injured. Therefore, curses are discussed in
relation to the values that are maintained in a given community, and their violation determines
sin, and depending on the committed sin and weights required curses or punishments.
Looking from this social perspective, they represent a measure of values in the society that
occurres as an indication of distortion of values, whether those who suggest deteriorated
values occupy a high or low social status in the community or family. The curse is correcting
the distortion, i.e. some satisfying justice, out exclusively on force majeure, and indefinitely.
In this regard it emphasizes that the most important values in traditional Macedonian culture
were life itself, created progeny, and their family, property and honor. Most evidence of the
belief in the power of the curse by folk stories is the event of an accident either cursed
person or his family. Therefore, curses also point another very important value, which is
highly appreciated – the natural course of human life, birth-marriage-death, that value
in ritual practices tend to emphasize or re-establish if it is disturbed, and curses she tries
to unravel.
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Curse, Sin, Values, Macedonian folk culture, Punishment
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2012, nr 3, s.129–143
ISBN
978-83-232-2473-0